Agent skill

Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Generate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill instructional-coaching-conversation-guide -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills instructional-coaching-conversation-guide --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/professional-learning/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide .claude/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide && 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
instructional-coaching-conversation-guide
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~5.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,069 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Generate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus.

  • Works in 3 steps: Coaching conversations require trust.… → Coaching is most effective as part of a… → The coach needs coaching skills, not…
  • Preparing for coaching sessions
  • 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

Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Generate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus. Use when preparing for coaching sessions, mentoring, or peer feedback conversations.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.4k 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Performance reviews. 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

  • Preparing for coaching sessions
  • Peer feedback conversations

Example prompts

  • “/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Coaching conversations require trust. The conversation above assumes a willing teacher in a supportive coaching relationship. If the…
  2. Coaching is most effective as part of a sustained cycle. One coaching conversation produces limited change. The meta-analysis by Kraft et…
  3. The coach needs coaching skills, not just the conversation plan. Reading a script of questions is not the same as facilitating a genuine…

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

Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide loads about 5.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,069 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.4k

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 2,069 words (~5,394 tokens).

“Designs a structured coaching conversation between an instructional coach and a teacher — using Knight's (2007, 2018) partnership approach and the Impact Cycle model — that helps the teacher identify a specific improvement focus, analyse evidence from their practice, and…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
instructional-coaching-conversation-guide
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
professional-learning/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide
skill_name
Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide
domain
professional-learning
version
1.0
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Knight (2007) — Instructional Coaching: a partnership approach to improving instruction, Knight (2018) — The Impact Cycle: what instructional coaches should…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/professional-learning/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide

What does Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide do?

Generate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus. Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Generate a coaching conversation guide with questions, protocols, and follow-up actions for a teaching focus.

When should I use Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide?

Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide fits situations like: preparing for coaching sessions; peer feedback conversations.

How do I install Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill instructional-coaching-conversation-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/professional-learning/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill instructional-coaching-conversation-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/professional-learning/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide 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 instructional-coaching-conversation-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide, .gemini/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide, .github/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide and .opencode/skills/instructional-coaching-conversation-guide in your project.

What does Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide is instructions for the agent only.

Does Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide 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 Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide 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 Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide use?

Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide 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 Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide use?

About 5.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 22k 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 Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide?

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Who maintains Instructional Coaching Conversation Guide?

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.