Agent skill

Assessment Design Orchestrator

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedEducation

Install Assessment Design Orchestrator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill assessment-design-orchestrator -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills assessment-design-orchestrator --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/original-frameworks/assessment-design-orchestrator .claude/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator && 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
assessment-design-orchestrator
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~4.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,423 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks.

  • Works in 5 steps: Formative Assessment Design → Rubric and Criteria Design → Authentic/Performance Assessment Design → …
  • A teacher needs help choosing how to assess
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, Evidence Space and Strength of… and Dependency Maintenance, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Assessment Design Orchestrator is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks. Use when a teacher needs help choosing how to assess.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.6k 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, covering Quizzes and assessments. 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

  • A teacher needs help choosing how to assess
  • Tasks that involve Quizzes and assessments

Example prompts

  • “Use the assessment-design-orchestrator skill to route between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance…”
  • “/assessment-design-orchestrator”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Formative Assessment Design
  2. Rubric and Criteria Design
  3. Authentic/Performance Assessment Design
  4. Peer and Self-Assessment Design
  5. Diagnostic/Pre-Assessment Design

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

Assessment Design Orchestrator loads about 4.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,423 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.6k

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 1,423 words (~4,637 tokens).

“Helps teachers navigate the question "how should I assess this?" — a question whose answer depends heavily on what is being assessed, why, and in what context. The orchestrator presents five assessment design pathways, recommends a fit based on the…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
assessment-design-orchestrator
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
high
skill_id
original-frameworks/assessment-design-orchestrator
skill_name
Assessment Design Orchestrator
domain
original-frameworks
version
1.0
evidence_strength
emerging
evidence_sources
Black & Wiliam (1998) — Inside the Black Box (formative assessment, effect size ~0.66), Wiliam (2011) — Embedded Formative Assessment, Wiggins (1998)…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/original-frameworks/assessment-design-orchestrator of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Assessment Design Orchestrator

What does Assessment Design Orchestrator do?

Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks. Assessment Design Orchestrator is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks.

When should I use Assessment Design Orchestrator?

Assessment Design Orchestrator fits situations like: A teacher needs help choosing how to assess; tasks that involve Quizzes and assessments.

How do I install Assessment Design Orchestrator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill assessment-design-orchestrator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/original-frameworks/assessment-design-orchestrator in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Assessment Design Orchestrator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill assessment-design-orchestrator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/original-frameworks/assessment-design-orchestrator in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Assessment Design Orchestrator 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 assessment-design-orchestrator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator, .gemini/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator, .github/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator and .opencode/skills/assessment-design-orchestrator in your project.

What does Assessment Design Orchestrator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Assessment Design Orchestrator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Assessment Design Orchestrator 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 Assessment Design Orchestrator 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 Assessment Design Orchestrator use?

Assessment Design Orchestrator 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 Assessment Design Orchestrator use?

About 4.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 19k 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 Assessment Design Orchestrator?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Assessment Design Orchestrator: DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars), AI Engineering Placement Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars), Codebase to Course (zarazhangrui/codebase-to-course, 5.7k stars) and AI Engineering Phase Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Assessment Design Orchestrator?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 840 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.