Agent skill

Error Analysis Protocol

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions.

Custom licenceAuto-check passed

Install Error Analysis Protocol

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill error-analysis-protocol -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills error-analysis-protocol --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/self-regulated-learning/error-analysis-protocol .claude/skills/error-analysis-protocol && 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
error-analysis-protocol
GitHub stars
830
Token cost
~4.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,628 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
142
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions.

  • Works in 3 steps: "Can you talk me through how you got… → "What is 3 - 5 if you just think of it… → "Try this one for me: simplify 5x + 7 +…
  • Error patterns appear in student work and targeted feedback is needed
  • 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

Error Analysis Protocol is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions. Use when error patterns appear in student work and targeted feedback is needed.

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.

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

  • Error patterns appear in student work and targeted feedback is needed
  • Tasks that involve Root cause analysis

Example prompts

  • “/error-analysis-protocol”

Workflow steps

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

  1. "Can you talk me through how you got from 3 - 5 to -15?"
  2. "What is 3 - 5 if you just think of it as a number calculation, without the algebra?"
  3. "Try this one for me: simplify 5x + 7 + 3x - 2. Talk me through each step."

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

Error Analysis Protocol loads about 4.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,628 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~51
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 1,628 words (~4,813 tokens).

“Structures the analysis of student errors to distinguish between procedural errors (wrong method applied correctly), conceptual misunderstandings (fundamental misconception driving the error), and careless mistakes (correct understanding, faulty execution) — then generates targeted follow-up actions appropriate to each error type…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
error-analysis-protocol
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
self-regulated-learning/error-analysis-protocol
skill_name
Error Analysis Protocol
domain
self-regulated-learning
version
1.0
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Borasi (1994) — Capitalizing on errors as 'springboards for inquiry': a teaching experiment, Black & Wiliam (1998) — Assessment and classroom learning…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/self-regulated-learning/error-analysis-protocol of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Error Analysis Protocol

What does Error Analysis Protocol do?

Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions. Error Analysis Protocol is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions.

When should I use Error Analysis Protocol?

Error Analysis Protocol fits situations like: error patterns appear in student work and targeted feedback is needed; tasks that involve Root cause analysis.

How do I install Error Analysis Protocol in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill error-analysis-protocol -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/self-regulated-learning/error-analysis-protocol in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/error-analysis-protocol in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Error Analysis Protocol in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill error-analysis-protocol -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/self-regulated-learning/error-analysis-protocol in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/error-analysis-protocol in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Error Analysis Protocol 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 error-analysis-protocol -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/error-analysis-protocol, .gemini/skills/error-analysis-protocol, .github/skills/error-analysis-protocol and .opencode/skills/error-analysis-protocol in your project.

What does Error Analysis Protocol need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Error Analysis Protocol is instructions for the agent only.

Does Error Analysis Protocol 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 Error Analysis Protocol 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 Error Analysis Protocol use?

Error Analysis Protocol 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 Error Analysis Protocol 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 Error Analysis Protocol?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Error Analysis Protocol: Kdrive Sentry Rca (Infomaniak/desktop-kDrive, 120 stars), Archive Analysis (ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst, 304 stars), Incident Alert Tickets (langfuse/langfuse, 35k stars) and Agent Evaluation (seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills, 206 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Error Analysis Protocol?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 830 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.