Research Proposal
gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills
A skill your agent uses when the user has a research proposal (problem + proposed methodology + planned experiments) and wants it iteratively strengthened until it clears a passing grade.
Design a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson.
Install Lesson Study Cycle Designer
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-study-cycle-designer --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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-study-cycle-designer .claude/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "lesson-study-cycle-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer into .claude/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lesson-study-cycle-designer", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designerType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-study-cycle-designer --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer .agents/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "lesson-study-cycle-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer into .agents/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lesson-study-cycle-designer", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-study-cycle-designer --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer .cursor/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "lesson-study-cycle-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer into .cursor/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lesson-study-cycle-designer", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git --path skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-study-cycle-designer --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer .gemini/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "lesson-study-cycle-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer into .gemini/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lesson-study-cycle-designer", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-study-cycle-designerInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer .github/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "lesson-study-cycle-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer into .github/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lesson-study-cycle-designer", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills lesson-study-cycle-designer --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer .opencode/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "lesson-study-cycle-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer into .opencode/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lesson-study-cycle-designer", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
lesson-study-cycle-designer- GitHub stars
- 837
- Token cost
- ~6.7k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 2,740 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 160
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Design a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson.
- Works in 4 steps: Orientation to lesson study (15 min):… → Kyōzai kenkyū — study the content (25… → Discuss known difficulties (10 min):… → …
- Planning jugyou kenkyuu
- 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 Study Cycle Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson. Use when planning jugyou kenkyuu or collaborative teacher inquiry into practice.
Its SKILL.md is about 6.7k 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 Hypothesis generation. 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 jugyou kenkyuu
- Collaborative teacher inquiry into practice
Example prompts
- “/lesson-study-cycle-designer”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Orientation to lesson study (15 min): The HoD explains the process. Key messages: the lesson belongs to us all; we observe students, not…
- Kyōzai kenkyū — study the content (25 min): As a team, work through 5 compound shape problems at increasing difficulty. Notice: what…
- Discuss known difficulties (10 min): What do we know about how students struggle with this? Pool experience: "What do students typically…
- Select case students (10 min): From the class that will be taught, identify three students: Student A (confident with area, likely to find…
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 Study Cycle Designer loads about 6.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,740 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 2,740 words (~6,743 tokens).
“Designs a complete lesson study cycle — the structured, collaborative process originated in Japan (jugyō kenkyū) where a team of teachers jointly plan a "research lesson," one teacher teaches it while others observe student learning (not teacher performance), and the…”
- name
- lesson-study-cycle-designer
- disable-model-invocation
- false
- user-invocable
- true
- effort
- medium
- skill_id
- professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer
- skill_name
- Lesson Study Cycle Designer
- domain
- professional-learning
- version
- 1.0
- evidence_strength
- strong
- evidence_sources
- Stigler & Hiebert (1999) — The Teaching Gap: best ideas from the world's teachers for improving education in the classroom, Lewis, Perry & Murata (2006) — How…
- output_schema.type
- object
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4
Compare with similar skills
Lesson Study Cycle Designer next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson Study Cycle Designer this skillGarethManning/education-agent-skills | 837 | — | ~6.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Research Proposalgaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills | 174 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Proposal AgentOpenRSI-Foundation/OpenRSI-Index | 204 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Sciatlas Idea Evaluatezjunlp/SciAtlas | 160 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Hypothesis Gengaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills | 174 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Good QuestionRimagination/good-question | 305 | 1 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Lesson Study Cycle Designer
What does Lesson Study Cycle Designer do?
Design a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson. Lesson Study Cycle Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson.
When should I use Lesson Study Cycle Designer?
Lesson Study Cycle Designer fits situations like: planning jugyou kenkyuu; collaborative teacher inquiry into practice.
How do I install Lesson Study Cycle Designer in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Lesson Study Cycle Designer in Codex?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill lesson-study-cycle-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/professional-learning/lesson-study-cycle-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Lesson Study Cycle 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-study-cycle-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-study-cycle-designer, .gemini/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer, .github/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer and .opencode/skills/lesson-study-cycle-designer in your project.
What does Lesson Study Cycle Designer need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Lesson Study Cycle Designer is instructions for the agent only.
Does Lesson Study Cycle 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 Study Cycle 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 Study Cycle Designer use?
Lesson Study Cycle 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 Study Cycle Designer use?
About 6.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 27k 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 Study Cycle Designer?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Lesson Study Cycle Designer: Research Proposal (gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, 174 stars), Proposal Agent (OpenRSI-Foundation/OpenRSI-Index, 204 stars), Sciatlas Idea Evaluate (zjunlp/SciAtlas, 160 stars) and Hypothesis Gen (gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, 174 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Lesson Study Cycle 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.