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.
Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact.
Install Differentiation Adapter
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill differentiation-adapter -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills differentiation-adapter --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/differentiation-adapter .claude/skills/differentiation-adapter && 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 "differentiation-adapter" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter into .claude/skills/differentiation-adapter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "differentiation-adapter", 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/differentiation-adapterType 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 differentiation-adapter -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills differentiation-adapter --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/differentiation-adapter .agents/skills/differentiation-adapter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "differentiation-adapter" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter into .agents/skills/differentiation-adapter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "differentiation-adapter", 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 differentiation-adapter -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills differentiation-adapter --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/differentiation-adapter .cursor/skills/differentiation-adapter && 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 "differentiation-adapter" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter into .cursor/skills/differentiation-adapter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "differentiation-adapter", 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/differentiation-adapter--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 differentiation-adapter -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills differentiation-adapter --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/differentiation-adapter .gemini/skills/differentiation-adapter && 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 "differentiation-adapter" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter into .gemini/skills/differentiation-adapter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "differentiation-adapter", 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 differentiation-adapterInstalls 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 differentiation-adapter -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/differentiation-adapter .github/skills/differentiation-adapter && 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 "differentiation-adapter" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter into .github/skills/differentiation-adapter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "differentiation-adapter", 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 differentiation-adapter -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 differentiation-adapter --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/differentiation-adapter .opencode/skills/differentiation-adapter && 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 "differentiation-adapter" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter into .opencode/skills/differentiation-adapter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "differentiation-adapter", 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
differentiation-adapter- GitHub stars
- 837
- Token cost
- ~4.6k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,416 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 160
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact.
- Works in 4 steps: Introduce the adaptation discreetly.… → Monitor the analysis, not the writing.… → Don't lower expectations for analytical… → …
- Differentiating for SEND
- 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
Differentiation Adapter is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact. Use when differentiating for SEND, EAL, gifted, ADHD, dyslexia, or anxiety.
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 Lesson planning and Focus and ADHD support. 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
- Differentiating for SEND
- Tasks that involve Lesson planning
- Tasks that involve Focus and ADHD support
Example prompts
- “/differentiation-adapter”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Introduce the adaptation discreetly. Don't announce "This is the dyslexia version." Instead, make some adaptations available to all…
- Monitor the analysis, not the writing. This student's strength is verbal analysis. If the written response is weaker than expected, check…
- Don't lower expectations for analytical quality. The student with dyslexia has strong verbal analytical skills. Their analysis should be…
- Revisit the pre-highlighting over time. Pre-selecting quotations is a scaffold that should be reduced as the student develops reading…
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
Differentiation Adapter loads about 4.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,416 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 1,416 words (~4,636 tokens).
“Adapts a task for a specific learner profile — extension, support, EAL, ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety, visual impairment, autism, gifted and talented — while explicitly maintaining the same learning objective. The critical principle is that differentiation modifies the ROUTE to learning…”
- name
- differentiation-adapter
- disable-model-invocation
- false
- user-invocable
- true
- effort
- medium
- skill_id
- curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter
- skill_name
- Differentiation Adapter
- domain
- curriculum-assessment
- version
- 1.0
- evidence_strength
- moderate
- evidence_sources
- Tomlinson (2001, 2014) — How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms, Rose & Meyer (2002) — Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age…
- output_schema.type
- object
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4
Compare with similar skills
Differentiation Adapter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Differentiation Adapter this skillGarethManning/education-agent-skills | 837 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| K-12 Core Literacy Lesson DesignTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Zone of Proximal Development Practice LessonsTHU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 40k | — | ~1.1k | 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 | |
| Learndair-ai/dair-academy-plugins | 614 | 2 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Differentiation Adapter
What does Differentiation Adapter do?
Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact. Differentiation Adapter is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Adapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact.
When should I use Differentiation Adapter?
Differentiation Adapter fits situations like: differentiating for SEND; tasks that involve Lesson planning; tasks that involve Focus and ADHD support.
How do I install Differentiation Adapter in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill differentiation-adapter -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/differentiation-adapter in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Differentiation Adapter in Codex?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill differentiation-adapter -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/curriculum-assessment/differentiation-adapter in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/differentiation-adapter in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Differentiation Adapter 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 differentiation-adapter -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/differentiation-adapter, .gemini/skills/differentiation-adapter, .github/skills/differentiation-adapter and .opencode/skills/differentiation-adapter in your project.
What does Differentiation Adapter need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Differentiation Adapter is instructions for the agent only.
Does Differentiation Adapter 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 Differentiation Adapter 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 Differentiation Adapter use?
Differentiation Adapter 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 Differentiation Adapter 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 Differentiation Adapter?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Differentiation Adapter: K-12 Core Literacy Lesson Design (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars), Zone of Proximal Development Practice Lessons (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars), Curriculum Planner (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars) and Deep Interactive Course Design (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 Differentiation Adapter?
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.