Agent skill

Perspective Taking Designer

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design structured perspective-taking activities with anti-projection guardrails.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Perspective Taking Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill perspective-taking-designer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills perspective-taking-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/questioning-discussion/perspective-taking-designer .claude/skills/perspective-taking-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
perspective-taking-designer
GitHub stars
837
Token cost
~4.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
852 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design structured perspective-taking activities with anti-projection guardrails.

  • Works in 5 steps: Asking students to imagine what they… → Treating groups as single perspectives.… → Skipping context-building. Students… → …
  • AI & LLM Engineering work in your project
  • 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

Perspective Taking Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design structured perspective-taking activities with anti-projection guardrails. Develops genuine understanding of complexity across history, social sciences, and literature — not performed empathy.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.5k 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 AI & LLM Engineering. 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

  • AI & LLM Engineering work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/perspective-taking-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Asking students to imagine what they would feel. This is projection, not perspective-taking. The activity must ask what the person or…
  2. Treating groups as single perspectives. "The Japanese perspective on Hiroshima" is not a perspective — it is a vast range of experiences…
  3. Skipping context-building. Students cannot take genuine historical or cultural perspectives without first understanding the world that…
  4. Assessing emotional performance. Grading perspective-taking activities on empathy displayed or emotional engagement rewards performance…
  5. Asking students to empathise with perpetrators. Understanding why someone participated in harm — the structural pressures, the available…

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

Perspective Taking Designer loads about 4.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 852 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
~4.5k

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 852 words (~4,525 tokens).

“Helps teachers design learning activities that develop genuine perspective-taking — the ability to understand how other people think, feel, and experience situations from within their own context and constraints. It is useful across many domains: history (understanding actors with different…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
perspective-taking-designer
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
questioning-discussion/perspective-taking-designer
skill_name
Perspective-Taking Designer
domain
questioning-discussion
version
1.0
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Gehlbach (2004, 2012) — Social perspective-taking in educational settings, Gehlbach & Brinkworth (2012) — The social perspective taking process, Batson (2009)…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/questioning-discussion/perspective-taking-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Perspective Taking Designer

What does Perspective Taking Designer do?

Design structured perspective-taking activities with anti-projection guardrails. Perspective Taking Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design structured perspective-taking activities with anti-projection guardrails.

When should I use Perspective Taking Designer?

Perspective Taking Designer fits situations like: AI & LLM Engineering work in your project.

How do I install Perspective Taking Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill perspective-taking-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/questioning-discussion/perspective-taking-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/perspective-taking-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Perspective Taking Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill perspective-taking-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/questioning-discussion/perspective-taking-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/perspective-taking-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Perspective Taking 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 perspective-taking-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/perspective-taking-designer, .gemini/skills/perspective-taking-designer, .github/skills/perspective-taking-designer and .opencode/skills/perspective-taking-designer in your project.

What does Perspective Taking Designer need to run?

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

Does Perspective Taking 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 Perspective Taking 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 Perspective Taking Designer use?

Perspective Taking 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 Perspective Taking Designer use?

About 4.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 18k 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 Perspective Taking Designer?

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Who maintains Perspective Taking 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.