Agent skill

AI Learning Boundary Mapper

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Map which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedEducation

Install AI Learning Boundary Mapper

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-learning-boundary-mapper -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-learning-boundary-mapper --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/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-learning-boundary-mapper .claude/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper && 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
ai-learning-boundary-mapper
GitHub stars
837
Token cost
~6k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,007 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Map which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs.

  • Works in 4 steps: This skill analyses assignment design,… → AI detection is unreliable. Tools that… → Boundary-setting has equity… → …
  • Redesigning tasks for AI-age classrooms
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, Input Schema and Prompt, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

AI Learning Boundary Mapper is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Map which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs. which AI use undermines. Use when redesigning tasks for AI-age classrooms or setting defensible AI use policies for specific assignments.

Its SKILL.md is about 6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Education. The repository describes itself as: 165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.

When your agent uses it

  • Redesigning tasks for AI-age classrooms
  • Setting defensible AI use policies for specific assignments

Example prompts

  • “/ai-learning-boundary-mapper”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. This skill analyses assignment design, not student behaviour. A defensible AI policy does not prevent AI use — it makes the learning…
  2. AI detection is unreliable. Tools that claim to detect AI-generated text have high false-positive and false-negative rates. Boundary…
  3. Boundary-setting has equity implications. Students who cannot afford private tutors may rely on AI as a cognitive scaffold in ways that…
  4. AI-specific applications of backward design have limited direct empirical validation. The backward design principle (Wiggins & McTighe…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6bbbce4. 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.

    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

AI Learning Boundary Mapper loads about 6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,007 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6k

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 (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,007 words (~5,979 tokens).

“Generates a component-by-component analysis of a specific assignment, mapping which elements benefit from AI assistance, which are neutral, and which are undermined by AI involvement — based on the learning objectives the assignment serves. This is the teacher-facing design tool…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
ai-learning-boundary-mapper
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
ai-literacy/ai-learning-boundary-mapper
skill_name
AI Learning Boundary Mapper
domain
ai-literacy
version
1.0
contributor
Gareth Manning
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Wiggins & McTighe (2005) — Understanding by Design (backward design and assessment alignment), Bjork et al. (2013) — Self-regulated learning: beliefs…

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/ai-literacy/ai-learning-boundary-mapper of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about AI Learning Boundary Mapper

What does AI Learning Boundary Mapper do?

Map which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs. AI Learning Boundary Mapper is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Map which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs.

When should I use AI Learning Boundary Mapper?

AI Learning Boundary Mapper fits situations like: redesigning tasks for AI-age classrooms; setting defensible AI use policies for specific assignments.

How do I install AI Learning Boundary Mapper in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-learning-boundary-mapper -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ai-literacy/ai-learning-boundary-mapper in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install AI Learning Boundary Mapper in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-learning-boundary-mapper -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ai-literacy/ai-learning-boundary-mapper in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use AI Learning Boundary Mapper 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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-learning-boundary-mapper -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper, .gemini/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper, .github/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper and .opencode/skills/ai-learning-boundary-mapper in your project.

What does AI Learning Boundary Mapper need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: AI Learning Boundary Mapper is instructions for the agent only.

Does AI Learning Boundary Mapper 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 AI Learning Boundary Mapper 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 AI Learning Boundary Mapper use?

AI Learning Boundary Mapper has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does AI Learning Boundary Mapper use?

About 6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 24k 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 AI Learning Boundary Mapper?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with AI Learning Boundary Mapper: DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars), AI Engineering Placement Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 66k stars), Deep Reading Analyst (ginobefun/deep-reading-analyst-skill, 353 stars) and OpenMAIC Setup and Extension (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains AI Learning Boundary Mapper?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 837 GitHub stars. The repository holds 160 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.

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