Agent skill

Course Description Analyzer

by dmccreary in dmccreary/ibook-skills

Validates or creates a course description for an intelligent textbook, scoring completeness against required elements (title, audience, prerequisites, topics, Bloom's Taxonomy outcomes).

CC-BY-NC-4.0Auto-check passed

Install Course Description Analyzer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dmccreary/ibook-skills --skill course-description-analyzer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dmccreary/ibook-skills course-description-analyzer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmccreary/ibook-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/course-description-analyzer .claude/skills/course-description-analyzer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
course-description-analyzer
GitHub stars
105
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,025 words
Files
2 (incl. assets)
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC-BY-NC-4.0

At a glance

Validates or creates a course description for an intelligent textbook, scoring completeness against required elements (title, audience, prerequisites, topics, Bloom's Taxonomy outcomes).

  • Works in 2 steps: Course Description Creation → Course Description Analysis
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Workflow Decision Tree, Step 1: Course Description… and Step 2: Course Description…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Course Description Analyzer is an agent skill from dmccreary/ibook-skills. Validates or creates a course description for an intelligent textbook, scoring completeness against required elements (title, audience, prerequisites, topics, Bloom's Taxonomy outcomes). Use before running the learning-graph-generator.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including assets (for example `assets/course-description-template.md`).

Example prompts

  • “Use the course-description-analyzer skill to validate or creates a course description for an intelligent textbook, scoring completeness against…”
  • “/course-description-analyzer”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Course Description Creation
  2. Course Description Analysis

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6789126. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml).

    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

Course Description Analyzer loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,025 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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 passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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

Its licence (CC-BY-NC-4.0) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,025 words (~2,217 tokens).

name
course-description-analyzer
license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
metadata.ibook.version
0.04
metadata.ibook.preferred-model
sonnet

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (assets) in skills/course-description-analyzer of dmccreary/ibook-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/course-description-template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6789126

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Questions about Course Description Analyzer

What does Course Description Analyzer do?

Validates or creates a course description for an intelligent textbook, scoring completeness against required elements (title, audience, prerequisites, topics, Bloom's Taxonomy outcomes). Course Description Analyzer is an agent skill from dmccreary/ibook-skills. Validates or creates a course description for an intelligent textbook, scoring completeness against required elements (title, audience, prerequisites, topics, Bloom's Taxonomy outcomes).

How do I install Course Description Analyzer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add dmccreary/ibook-skills --skill course-description-analyzer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/course-description-analyzer in dmccreary/ibook-skills) into .claude/skills/course-description-analyzer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Course Description Analyzer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add dmccreary/ibook-skills --skill course-description-analyzer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/course-description-analyzer in dmccreary/ibook-skills) into .agents/skills/course-description-analyzer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Course Description Analyzer 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 dmccreary/ibook-skills --skill course-description-analyzer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/course-description-analyzer, .gemini/skills/course-description-analyzer, .github/skills/course-description-analyzer and .opencode/skills/course-description-analyzer in your project.

What does Course Description Analyzer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Course Description Analyzer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Course Description Analyzer 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 Course Description Analyzer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Course Description Analyzer use?

Course Description Analyzer is published under the CC-BY-NC-4.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md).

How many tokens does Course Description Analyzer use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.9k 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 Course Description Analyzer?

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Who maintains Course Description Analyzer?

dmccreary (a GitHub user) maintains it in dmccreary/ibook-skills, which has 105 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: dmccreary/ibook-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.