Skill collection
GarethManning/education-agent-skills agent skills
- skills
- 160
- GitHub stars
- 840
GitHub description: “165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.”
- Stars
- 840 (122 forks)
- Licence
- Unknown
- Last push
- Aug 2026
- Created
- Mar 2026
- adaptive-learning
- agentic-workflow
- ai-education
- curriculum-design
- edtech
- education
- intelligent-tutoring-system
- learning-science
- open-educational-resources
- pedagogy
- project-based-learning
- prompt-engineering
- regenerative-education
- retrieval-practice
- competency-based-education
- evidence-based-education
Install all skills
npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skillsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production across proficiency levels. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 2 | Generate a cascading hint sequence for a problem type, revealing progressively without giving answers. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 3 | Map control, influence, and concern after systems analysis. An agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Generate scaffolds that gradually increase student choice, voice, and ownership within a learning task. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 5 | Design a Funhouse Mirror activity where students use their own domain expertise to detect AI distortions, omissions, and overconfidence. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | Audit and redesign AI-generated feedback for pedagogical quality, timing, and learning impact. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 8 | Generate argument structure scaffolds using Toulmin, PEEL, or CER frameworks for a specific claim or question. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 9 | Design the deeper patterns, structures, artefacts, and mental models needed to grow a desired event. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | Audit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 12 | Design a moment of awe or wonder that hooks curiosity and deepens emotional engagement with content. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 13 | Plan a unit using backwards design from desired outcomes through assessment evidence to learning activities. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 14 | Evaluate a teacher-drafted central historical question for its capacity to drive genuine historical inquiry. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 15 | Design a checking-for-understanding protocol with specific techniques for each lesson stage. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 16 | Orchestrate compassionate systems tools from issue or aspiration to wise action. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 18 | Design a Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract learning sequence for a mathematical concept using manipulatives. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 19 | Generate a criterion-referenced rubric with descriptive performance levels for a task or objective. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 20 | Create an interactive digital worked example sequence with fading for online or blended delivery. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 21 | Create a writing scaffold teaching the genre conventions specific to an academic discipline. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 22 | Select and configure a structured discussion protocol matched to the purpose, topic, and group readiness. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 23 | Design a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 24 | Generate elaborative interrogation prompts that deepen encoding through targeted why and how questions. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 25 | Design deliberately flawed examples that develop error-detection skills and deepen understanding. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 26 | Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 27 | Build a complete explicit instruction sequence from teacher modelling through guided practice to independent work. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 28 | Track performance across sessions and reduce scaffolding as competence grows. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 29 | Analyse existing written feedback for quality, specificity, actionability, and impact on student learning. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 30 | Select the right formative assessment technique for a specific learning moment, purpose, and age group. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 31 | Analyse student work against criteria to identify specific gaps between current performance and learning objectives. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 32 | Design a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 33 | Design a diagnostic hinge question that reveals whether students understand enough to move on. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 34 | Adapt a historical primary source for classroom use — modifying complexity and length while preserving features for sourcing, close reading, and corroboration. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 35 | Create if-then implementation intentions and WOOP plans for specific student behaviour change goals. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | Coordinates UDL and differentiation tools through a universal-first hierarchy: barrier removal before targeted differentiation before individualised accommodation. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 37 | Generate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | Redesign a blocked topic sequence into an interleaved plan with mixed practice across related topics. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 39 | Slow down interpretation from observation to action. An agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 40 | Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 41 | Interpret learning analytics data and translate dashboard findings into actionable teaching decisions. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 42 | Build a learning progression showing prerequisite-to-mastery steps for a target skill or understanding. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 43 | Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 44 | Design a lesson opening that activates prior knowledge and connects previous learning to today's content. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 45 | Design a media deconstruction protocol analysing persuasion, bias, or representation in media texts. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 46 | Surface beliefs, assumptions, stories, and values shaping a system. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 47 | Diagnose motivation problems in a task using self-determination theory and redesign for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 48 | Design a lesson that embeds PERMA wellbeing elements alongside academic learning objectives. | GarethManning/ | 840 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in GarethManning/education-agent-skills?
Academic Language Sentence Frame Generator from GarethManning/education-agent-skills ranks first of the 160 skills in GarethManning/education-agent-skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 840 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 5.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Adaptive Hint Sequence Designer and Agency Circles For Systems Action.
Are the skills in GarethManning/education-agent-skills official?
None yet. All 160 skills in GarethManning/education-agent-skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from GarethManning/education-agent-skills?
Run npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.