Agent skill

Dual Coding Designer

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Dual Coding Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill dual-coding-designer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills dual-coding-designer --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/memory-learning-science/dual-coding-designer .claude/skills/dual-coding-designer && 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
dual-coding-designer
GitHub stars
835
Token cost
~4.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,513 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
142
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding.

  • Works in 6 steps: Upward arrow from water surface → cloud,… → Upward arrow from tree → cloud, labelled… → Cloud itself, labelled "CONDENSATION"… → …
  • Creating slides
  • 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

Dual Coding Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding. Use when creating slides, diagrams, posters, or visual explanations of complex concepts.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.8k 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 Documents & Office, covering Diagrams and Slides and decks. 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

  • Creating slides
  • Visual explanations of complex concepts

Example prompts

  • “/dual-coding-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Upward arrow from water surface → cloud, labelled "EVAPORATION" with annotation "Solar energy heats water → water vapour rises"
  2. Upward arrow from tree → cloud, labelled "TRANSPIRATION" with annotation "Water released from plant leaves"
  3. Cloud itself, labelled "CONDENSATION" with annotation "Water vapour cools → forms water droplets"
  4. Downward arrows from cloud → land and water, labelled "PRECIPITATION" with annotation "Rain, snow, sleet, hail"
  5. Arrow along ground surface → river → back to sea, labelled "SURFACE RUNOFF / COLLECTION"
  6. Dotted arrow downward into ground, labelled "INFILTRATION / GROUNDWATER FLOW"

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

Dual Coding Designer loads about 4.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,513 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~52
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.8k

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 1,513 words (~4,750 tokens).

“Takes a verbal explanation or concept and designs a complementary visual representation — specifying the diagram type, spatial layout, labelling strategy, and annotation approach that best supports understanding. This is NOT about making content "more visual" or appealing to "visual…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
dual-coding-designer
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
memory-learning-science/dual-coding-designer
skill_name
Dual Coding Designer
domain
memory-learning-science
version
1.0
evidence_strength
strong
evidence_sources
Paivio (1986) — Mental Representations: A Dual Coding Approach, Clark & Paivio (1991) — Dual coding theory and education, Mayer (2009) — Multimedia learning…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/memory-learning-science/dual-coding-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Dual Coding Designer

What does Dual Coding Designer do?

Design a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding. Dual Coding Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a visual complement to verbal content using dual coding principles for stronger encoding.

When should I use Dual Coding Designer?

Dual Coding Designer fits situations like: creating slides; visual explanations of complex concepts.

How do I install Dual Coding Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill dual-coding-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/memory-learning-science/dual-coding-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/dual-coding-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Dual Coding Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill dual-coding-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/memory-learning-science/dual-coding-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/dual-coding-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Dual Coding Designer 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 dual-coding-designer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dual-coding-designer, .gemini/skills/dual-coding-designer, .github/skills/dual-coding-designer and .opencode/skills/dual-coding-designer in your project.

What does Dual Coding Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Dual Coding Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Dual Coding Designer 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 Dual Coding Designer 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 Dual Coding Designer use?

Dual Coding Designer 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 Dual Coding Designer use?

About 4.8k 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 Dual Coding Designer?

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Who maintains Dual Coding Designer?

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.