Claude Certification Tutor
rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch
Guides a learner through one of four independent Claude certification tracks with onboarding, lessons, practice labs, mock exams and remediation.
Teach the user a topic as an adaptive tutor — retrieval practice, spaced repetition with decay, and persistent memory in ~/.drill-me/.
Install Drill Me
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude drill-me --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/drill-me/skills/me .claude/skills/drill-me && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "drill-me" agent skill from https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/me into .claude/skills/drill-me/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "drill-me", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/meType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude drill-me --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/drill-me/skills/me .agents/skills/drill-me && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "drill-me" agent skill from https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/me into .agents/skills/drill-me/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "drill-me", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude drill-me --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/drill-me/skills/me .cursor/skills/drill-me && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "drill-me" agent skill from https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/me into .cursor/skills/drill-me/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "drill-me", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git --path plugins/drill-me/skills/me--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude drill-me --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/drill-me/skills/me .gemini/skills/drill-me && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "drill-me" agent skill from https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/me into .gemini/skills/drill-me/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "drill-me", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude drill-meInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/drill-me/skills/me .github/skills/drill-me && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "drill-me" agent skill from https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/me into .github/skills/drill-me/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "drill-me", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude drill-me --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/drill-me/skills/me .opencode/skills/drill-me && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "drill-me" agent skill from https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude/tree/main/plugins/drill-me/skills/me into .opencode/skills/drill-me/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "drill-me", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
drill-me- GitHub stars
- 3.6k
- Token cost
- ~697 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 341 words
- Files
- 3
- Skills in repo
- 245
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Teach the user a topic as an adaptive tutor — retrieval practice, spaced repetition with decay, and persistent memory in ~/.drill-me/.
- Works in 4 steps: Run date +%Y-%m-%d to get today's date. → Read… → Read… → …
- The user wants to learn
- SKILL.md covers Boot sequence (do this…, Source intake, Then run the session and Non-negotiables (the playbook…
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Drill Me is an agent skill from davepoon/buildwithclaude. Teach the user a topic as an adaptive tutor — retrieval practice, spaced repetition with decay, and persistent memory in ~/.drill-me/. Use when the user wants to learn or be drilled on something, says "drill me on X", "teach me X", or wants to study a topic, a codebase, or a document.
Its SKILL.md is about 700 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files (for example `reference/scheduling.md` and `reference/teaching-playbook.md`).
It sits in Education, covering Tutoring and explanations, Agent memory and Study guides and flashcards. The repository describes itself as: A single hub to find Claude Skills, Agents, Commands, Hooks, Plugins, and Marketplace collections to extend Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Agent SDK and OpenClaw. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user wants to learn
- Be drilled on something
- Says drill me on X
- Wants to study a topic
Example prompts
- “drill me on X”
- “teach me X”
- “/drill-me”
Requirements
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion, WebFetch
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Run date +%Y-%m-%d to get today's date.
- Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/reference/scheduling.md — the memory ledger format and
- Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/reference/teaching-playbook.md — the session playbook.
- Check ~/.drill-me/topics/ for an existing ledger matching the topic
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 10bfc43. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
ReadWriteEditGlobGrepBashAskUserQuestionWebFetch
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Drill Me loads about 697 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 341 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check: notes
The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.
- NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion, WebFetch
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from davepoon/buildwithclaude at commit 10bfc43, republished under its MIT licence (© davepoon). 341 words, ~697 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/drill-me/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- drill-me
- description
- Teach the user a topic as an adaptive tutor — retrieval practice, spaced repetition with decay, and persistent memory in ~/.drill-me/. Use when the user wants to learn or be drilled on something, says "drill me on X", "teach me X", or wants to study a topic, a codebase, or a document.
- allowed-tools
- Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion, WebFetch
- argument-hint
- <topic | path | url>
drill-me
You are now a tutor, and your single goal is to move knowledge from your head into the user's long-term memory. Not by explaining — by making them retrieve. Re-reading feels like learning and isn't; being tested is what works. Act accordingly, relentlessly.
Topic: $ARGUMENTS (if empty, ask what they want to learn — one question, with 2–3
suggestions if context makes some obvious).
Boot sequence (do this silently, before saying anything substantive)
- Run
date +%Y-%m-%dto get today's date. - Read
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/reference/scheduling.md— the memory ledger format and spaced-repetition algorithm. Follow its arithmetic exactly. - Read
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/reference/teaching-playbook.md— the session playbook. Its rules are binding. - Check
~/.drill-me/topics/for an existing ledger matching the topic (fuzzy-match; don't create duplicates).
Source intake
- General topic → teach from your own knowledge.
- Codebase topic ("this repo's auth flow", a path) → explore the code first and anchor every concept and question to real files and lines.
- A file or URL → read it first; you're drilling them on that material.
Then run the session
- Returning learner → review due cards first (scheduling.md ordering), then new material from the "Not yet taught" list.
- New topic → calibration interview (playbook), propose a syllabus, then teach.
Non-negotiables (the playbook elaborates, but never violate these)
- One question per message. Every message ends with exactly one thing to do.
- Ask before telling — retrieval first, explanation only after they've attempted.
- Never more than ~150 words of explanation between questions. No walls of text.
- Use AskUserQuestion for confidence ratings and multiple choice; plain text for recall.
- Hold difficulty so they succeed on roughly 6 of 7 questions — escalate when they're cruising, scaffold when they're drowning.
- On a miss: hint ladder, one rung per message. Never jump to the answer.
- Close every session with a teach-back, a learner-written summary, a ledger update,
and a concrete "come back on
<date>".
The user can stop any time — if they say "done", "stop", or clearly wind down, skip straight to the close (summary + ledger update). Never let a session end without persisting the ledger.
© davepoon, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 2 other files in plugins/drill-me/skills/me of davepoon/buildwithclaude.
- SKILL.md
- reference/scheduling.md
- reference/teaching-playbook.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 10bfc43
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| Drill Me this skilldavepoon/buildwithclaude | 3.6k | — | ~697 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Claude Certification Tutorrohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 66k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| StudyVault Quiz Tutorbevibing/tutor-skills | 1.3k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Project Mastery Coachtudoumashu/ai-memory-skillpack | 422 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Learndair-ai/dair-academy-plugins | 614 | 2 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Study Companion Enmingchen666/Reviva | 237 | — | ~5.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about Drill Me
What does Drill Me do?
Teach the user a topic as an adaptive tutor — retrieval practice, spaced repetition with decay, and persistent memory in ~/.drill-me/. Drill Me is an agent skill from davepoon/buildwithclaude.drill-me/.
When should I use Drill Me?
Drill Me fits situations like: the user wants to learn; be drilled on something; says drill me on X; wants to study a topic.
How do I install Drill Me in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/drill-me/skills/me in davepoon/buildwithclaude) into .claude/skills/drill-me in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Drill Me in Codex?
Run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/drill-me/skills/me in davepoon/buildwithclaude) into .agents/skills/drill-me in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Drill Me in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill drill-me -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/drill-me, .gemini/skills/drill-me, .github/skills/drill-me and .opencode/skills/drill-me in your project.
What does Drill Me need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Drill Me is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion, WebFetch.
Does Drill Me access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Drill Me safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Drill Me use?
Drill Me is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Drill Me use?
About 697 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Drill Me?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Drill Me: Claude Certification Tutor (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 66k stars), StudyVault Quiz Tutor (bevibing/tutor-skills, 1.3k stars), Project Mastery Coach (tudoumashu/ai-memory-skillpack, 422 stars) and Learn (dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins, 614 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Drill Me?
davepoon (a GitHub user) maintains it in davepoon/buildwithclaude, which has 3,604 GitHub stars. The repository holds 245 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: davepoon/buildwithclaude on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.