Agent skill

Lesson Observation Protocol Designer

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedEducation

Install Lesson Observation Protocol Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-observation-protocol-designer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-observation-protocol-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/professional-learning/lesson-observation-protocol-designer .claude/skills/lesson-observation-protocol-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
lesson-observation-protocol-designer
GitHub stars
837
Token cost
~5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,806 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods.

  • Works in 3 steps: Agree the focus with the teacher. Before… → Get the lesson plan. Ask the teacher:… → Position yourself. Sit at the back or…
  • Planning peer observations
  • 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

Lesson Observation Protocol Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods. Use when planning peer observations, coaching visits, or developmental classroom visits.

Its SKILL.md is about 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 Education, covering Digital forensics. 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 peer observations
  • Coaching visits
  • Developmental classroom visits

Example prompts

  • “/lesson-observation-protocol-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Agree the focus with the teacher. Before the lesson, confirm: "I'm looking specifically at how you check for understanding — when you…
  2. Get the lesson plan. Ask the teacher: "Where in the lesson do you expect to check understanding? What are you hoping to find out?" This…
  3. Position yourself. Sit at the back or side where you can see both the teacher and the students. You need to observe student responses (not…

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

Lesson Observation Protocol Designer loads about 5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,806 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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 1,806 words (~5,014 tokens).

“Designs a focused, evidence-based lesson observation protocol for a specific teaching practice — providing clear "look-fors" (observable indicators of the practice in action), a structured recording format, and a framework for the post-observation feedback conversation. The critical principle is that…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
lesson-observation-protocol-designer
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
professional-learning/lesson-observation-protocol-designer
skill_name
Lesson Observation Protocol Designer
domain
professional-learning
version
1.0
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Darling-Hammond (2010) — Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: how teacher performance assessments can measure and improve teaching, Hill, Charalambous & Kraft…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/professional-learning/lesson-observation-protocol-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Lesson Observation Protocol Designer

What does Lesson Observation Protocol Designer do?

Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods. Lesson Observation Protocol Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods.

When should I use Lesson Observation Protocol Designer?

Lesson Observation Protocol Designer fits situations like: planning peer observations; coaching visits; developmental classroom visits.

How do I install Lesson Observation Protocol Designer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Lesson Observation Protocol Designer in Codex?

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

Can I use Lesson Observation Protocol 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 lesson-observation-protocol-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/lesson-observation-protocol-designer, .gemini/skills/lesson-observation-protocol-designer, .github/skills/lesson-observation-protocol-designer and .opencode/skills/lesson-observation-protocol-designer in your project.

What does Lesson Observation Protocol Designer need to run?

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

Does Lesson Observation Protocol 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 Lesson Observation Protocol 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 Lesson Observation Protocol Designer use?

Lesson Observation Protocol 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 Lesson Observation Protocol Designer use?

About 5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 20k 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 Lesson Observation Protocol Designer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Lesson Observation Protocol Designer: Campaign Attribution Evidence Analysis (mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, 34k stars), Oss Forensics (Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes, 546 stars), Ctf Malware (ljagiello/ctf-skills, 3.4k stars) and LNK and Jump List Forensics (mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, 34k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Lesson Observation Protocol Designer?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 837 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.