Agent skill

Historical Document Set Curator

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question.

Custom licenceAuto-check passed

Install Historical Document Set Curator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill historical-document-set-curator -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills historical-document-set-curator --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/historical-thinking/historical-document-set-curator .claude/skills/historical-document-set-curator && 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
historical-document-set-curator
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~6.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,164 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question.

  • Works in 3 steps: Smith vs. Smith (Documents 1 and 2). The… → Adams vs. Lemay (Documents 3 and 4). Two… → Primary vs. secondary sources (Documents…
  • Assembling sources for a new lesson
  • 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

Historical Document Set Curator is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question. Use when assembling sources for a new lesson or when an existing set produces flat responses.

Its SKILL.md is about 6.4k 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

  • Assembling sources for a new lesson
  • An existing set produces flat responses

Example prompts

  • “/historical-document-set-curator”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Smith vs. Smith (Documents 1 and 2). The same author contradicts himself across a 16-year gap. Students should discover that eyewitness…
  2. Adams vs. Lemay (Documents 3 and 4). Two historians examine the same primary evidence and reach opposite conclusions. Students should…
  3. Primary vs. secondary sources (Documents 1–2 vs. 3–4). Students encounter raw evidence first, then professional interpretations of that…

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

Historical Document Set Curator loads about 6.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,164 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6.4k

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 2,164 words (~6,405 tokens).

“Designs a document set for a document-based history lesson — recommending which sources to include, how to sequence them, and why each document earns its place in the set. The output includes the set design with rationale, the analytical tensions…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
historical-document-set-curator
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
high
skill_id
historical-thinking/historical-document-set-curator
skill_name
Historical Document Set Curator
domain
historical-thinking
version
1.0
contributor
Sean Hu
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Reisman (2012) — Reading like a historian: a document-based history curriculum intervention in urban high schools, Wineburg, Martin & Monte-Sano (2011)…

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/historical-thinking/historical-document-set-curator of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Historical Document Set Curator

What does Historical Document Set Curator do?

Design a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question. Historical Document Set Curator is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a document set for a document-based lesson — selecting and sequencing sources for analytical tension around a central question.

When should I use Historical Document Set Curator?

Historical Document Set Curator fits situations like: assembling sources for a new lesson; an existing set produces flat responses.

How do I install Historical Document Set Curator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill historical-document-set-curator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/historical-thinking/historical-document-set-curator in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/historical-document-set-curator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Historical Document Set Curator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill historical-document-set-curator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/historical-thinking/historical-document-set-curator in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/historical-document-set-curator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Historical Document Set Curator 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 historical-document-set-curator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/historical-document-set-curator, .gemini/skills/historical-document-set-curator, .github/skills/historical-document-set-curator and .opencode/skills/historical-document-set-curator in your project.

What does Historical Document Set Curator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Historical Document Set Curator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Historical Document Set Curator 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 Historical Document Set Curator 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 Historical Document Set Curator use?

Historical Document Set Curator 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 Historical Document Set Curator use?

About 6.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 26k 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 Historical Document Set Curator?

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Who maintains Historical Document Set Curator?

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.