K-12 Core Literacy Lesson Design
THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
Designs a Chinese K-12 classroom for one OpenMAIC stage around the core-literacy model, using authentic tasks, performance assessment and observable evidence.
Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills.
Install Competency Unpacker
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills competency-unpacker --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/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker .claude/skills/competency-unpacker && 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 "competency-unpacker" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker into .claude/skills/competency-unpacker/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "competency-unpacker", 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/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpackerType 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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills competency-unpacker --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker .agents/skills/competency-unpacker && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "competency-unpacker" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker into .agents/skills/competency-unpacker/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "competency-unpacker", 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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills competency-unpacker --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker .cursor/skills/competency-unpacker && 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 "competency-unpacker" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker into .cursor/skills/competency-unpacker/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "competency-unpacker", 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/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git --path skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker--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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills competency-unpacker --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker .gemini/skills/competency-unpacker && 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 "competency-unpacker" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker into .gemini/skills/competency-unpacker/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "competency-unpacker", 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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills competency-unpackerInstalls 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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker .github/skills/competency-unpacker && 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 "competency-unpacker" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker into .github/skills/competency-unpacker/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "competency-unpacker", 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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills competency-unpacker --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker .opencode/skills/competency-unpacker && 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 "competency-unpacker" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker into .opencode/skills/competency-unpacker/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "competency-unpacker", 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
competency-unpacker- GitHub stars
- 835
- Token cost
- ~4.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,465 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 142
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills.
- Works in 6 steps: Identifies specific language choices… → Explains the effect of each language… → Identifies structural choices (paragraph… → …
- Interpreting curriculum standards
- 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
Competency Unpacker is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. Use when interpreting curriculum standards or writing learning objectives.
Its SKILL.md is about 4.5k 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 Lesson planning and Curriculum and course design. 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
- Interpreting curriculum standards
- Writing learning objectives
Example prompts
- “/competency-unpacker”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Identifies specific language choices (individual words, phrases, figurative language, sentence types) and names the technique where…
- Explains the effect of each language choice on the reader — what it makes the reader think, feel, or picture — rather than simply…
- Identifies structural choices (paragraph length, opening, ending, shift in tone, chronological vs. non-linear, sentence positioning) and…
- Links language and structural choices to the writer's purpose — explains WHY the writer made these choices, connecting technique to…
- Uses appropriate analytical terminology accurately — not just naming techniques but using the vocabulary of analysis: "suggests,"…
- Supports analysis with embedded quotations selected for their analytical potential, not just their availability.
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
Competency Unpacker loads about 4.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,465 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 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 1,465 words (~4,498 tokens).
“Takes a standard, learning objective, or competency descriptor — often written in abstract, compressed language — and unpacks it into four actionable components: observable indicators (what a student who has achieved this actually DOES), prerequisite knowledge (what must be in…”
- name
- competency-unpacker
- disable-model-invocation
- false
- user-invocable
- true
- effort
- medium
- skill_id
- curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker
- skill_name
- Competency Unpacker
- domain
- curriculum-assessment
- version
- 1.0
- evidence_strength
- strong
- evidence_sources
- Wiggins & McTighe (1998, 2005) — Understanding by Design: backward design from desired results, Marzano & Kendall (2007) — The New Taxonomy of Educational…
- output_schema.type
- object
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4
Compare with similar skills
Competency Unpacker next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competency Unpacker this skillGarethManning/education-agent-skills | 835 | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| K-12 Core Literacy Lesson DesignTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Curriculum PlannerTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Deep Interactive Course DesignTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~681 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Spiral Curriculum DesignerTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Understanding by Design PlannerTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~548 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Competency Unpacker
What does Competency Unpacker do?
Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. Competency Unpacker is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills.
When should I use Competency Unpacker?
Competency Unpacker fits situations like: interpreting curriculum standards; writing learning objectives.
How do I install Competency Unpacker in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/competency-unpacker in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Competency Unpacker in Codex?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/competency-unpacker in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Competency Unpacker 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 competency-unpacker -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/competency-unpacker, .gemini/skills/competency-unpacker, .github/skills/competency-unpacker and .opencode/skills/competency-unpacker in your project.
What does Competency Unpacker need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Competency Unpacker is instructions for the agent only.
Does Competency Unpacker 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 Competency Unpacker 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 Competency Unpacker use?
Competency Unpacker 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 Competency Unpacker use?
About 4.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 18k 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 Competency Unpacker?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Competency Unpacker: K-12 Core Literacy Lesson Design (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars), Curriculum Planner (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars), Deep Interactive Course Design (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars) and Spiral Curriculum Designer (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 Competency Unpacker?
GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 835 GitHub stars. The repository holds 142 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.