Agent skill

Language Demand Analyser

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Language Demand Analyser

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill language-demand-analyser -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills language-demand-analyser --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/eal-language-development/language-demand-analyser .claude/skills/language-demand-analyser && 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
language-demand-analyser
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~5.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,829 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners.

  • Works in 3 steps: Provide the conclusion structure… → Pre-teach 3 key Tier 2 words:… → Display the tense rule on the board.…
  • Planning support
  • 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

Language Demand Analyser is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners. Use when adapting tasks, planning support, or assessing linguistic accessibility.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.5k 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 Frontend & Design. 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

  • Planning support
  • Assessing linguistic accessibility

Example prompts

  • “/language-demand-analyser”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Provide the conclusion structure template with sentence starters. This single scaffold addresses discourse demands (text structure…
  2. Pre-teach 3 key Tier 2 words: "demonstrate," "therefore," "suggest." These three words will appear repeatedly in science conclusions and…
  3. Display the tense rule on the board. Past tense for what happened, present tense for why. This simple visual reference prevents the most…

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

Language Demand Analyser loads about 5.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,829 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~53
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.5k

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 1,829 words (~5,549 tokens).

“Identifies the language demands of a classroom task across four dimensions — vocabulary (Tier 1/2/3), grammar (sentence complexity, tense, voice, modality), discourse (text structure, cohesion, paragraph organisation), and genre (purpose, audience, register) — and recommends specific scaffolds for each dimension…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
language-demand-analyser
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
eal-language-development/language-demand-analyser
skill_name
Language Demand Analyser
domain
eal-language-development
version
1.0
evidence_strength
strong
evidence_sources
Cummins (1981, 2000) — BICS/CALP framework: Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills vs. Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency, Gibbons (2002, 2015)…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/eal-language-development/language-demand-analyser of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Language Demand Analyser

What does Language Demand Analyser do?

Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners. Language Demand Analyser is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners.

When should I use Language Demand Analyser?

Language Demand Analyser fits situations like: planning support; assessing linguistic accessibility.

How do I install Language Demand Analyser in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill language-demand-analyser -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/eal-language-development/language-demand-analyser in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/language-demand-analyser in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Language Demand Analyser in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill language-demand-analyser -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/eal-language-development/language-demand-analyser in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/language-demand-analyser in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Language Demand Analyser 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 language-demand-analyser -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/language-demand-analyser, .gemini/skills/language-demand-analyser, .github/skills/language-demand-analyser and .opencode/skills/language-demand-analyser in your project.

What does Language Demand Analyser need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Language Demand Analyser is instructions for the agent only.

Does Language Demand Analyser 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 Language Demand Analyser 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 Language Demand Analyser use?

Language Demand Analyser 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 Language Demand Analyser use?

About 5.5k 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 Language Demand Analyser?

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Who maintains Language Demand Analyser?

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.