AI Engineering Placement Quiz
rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch
Runs a 10-question quiz across five areas to place a learner in the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum, so they skip what they already know.
Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation.
Install Progressive Hint Ladder
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill progressive-hint-ladder -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills progressive-hint-ladder --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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder .claude/skills/progressive-hint-ladder && 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 "progressive-hint-ladder" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder into .claude/skills/progressive-hint-ladder/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "progressive-hint-ladder", 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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladderType 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 progressive-hint-ladder -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills progressive-hint-ladder --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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder .agents/skills/progressive-hint-ladder && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "progressive-hint-ladder" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder into .agents/skills/progressive-hint-ladder/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "progressive-hint-ladder", 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 progressive-hint-ladder -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills progressive-hint-ladder --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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder .cursor/skills/progressive-hint-ladder && 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 "progressive-hint-ladder" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder into .cursor/skills/progressive-hint-ladder/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "progressive-hint-ladder", 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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder--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 progressive-hint-ladder -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills progressive-hint-ladder --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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder .gemini/skills/progressive-hint-ladder && 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 "progressive-hint-ladder" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder into .gemini/skills/progressive-hint-ladder/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "progressive-hint-ladder", 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 progressive-hint-ladderInstalls 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 progressive-hint-ladder -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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder .github/skills/progressive-hint-ladder && 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 "progressive-hint-ladder" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder into .github/skills/progressive-hint-ladder/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "progressive-hint-ladder", 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 progressive-hint-ladder -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 progressive-hint-ladder --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/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder .opencode/skills/progressive-hint-ladder && 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 "progressive-hint-ladder" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder into .opencode/skills/progressive-hint-ladder/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "progressive-hint-ladder", 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
progressive-hint-ladder- GitHub stars
- 840
- Token cost
- ~3.8k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,026 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 160
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation.
- Works in 4 steps: The hint ladder assumes a problem with a… → Constructing a good Level 2 analogy… → Hint-abuse detection is approximate.… → …
- Education work in your project
- SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, System Prompt and Example Transcript, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Progressive Hint Ladder is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation. Teaches help-seeking as a skill and prevents direct-answer shortcuts.
Its SKILL.md is about 3.8k 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. 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
- Education work in your project
Example prompts
- “/progressive-hint-ladder”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- The hint ladder assumes a problem with a clear correct path. For open-ended, creative, or discussion-based tasks, the graduated-hint…
- Constructing a good Level 2 analogy requires the AI to know what concepts the learner has already encountered. Without session history or…
- Hint-abuse detection is approximate. Rapid escalation requests are the main signal, but some learners genuinely think fast and need little…
- The "no full answer" rule can frustrate learners who are time-constrained. A learner with an assignment due in 30 minutes may experience…
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
Progressive Hint Ladder loads about 3.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,026 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 1,026 words (~3,820 tokens).
“Provides graduated assistance across six levels — from a diagnostic question through abstract conceptual nudge, analogy, principle reminder, procedural nudge, and near-complete scaffold — with a reflection requirement at each level before escalation is permitted. The learner never receives the…”
- name
- progressive-hint-ladder
- disable-model-invocation
- false
- user-invocable
- true
- effort
- medium
- skill_id
- student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder
- skill_name
- Progressive Hint Ladder
- domain
- student-learning
- domain_number
- 20
- version
- 1.0
- audience
- student
- evidence_strength
- strong
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4
Compare with similar skills
Progressive Hint Ladder 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Hint Ladder this skillGarethManning/education-agent-skills | 840 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| AI Engineering Placement Quizrohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 67k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| AI Engineering Project Tutorrohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 67k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Hung-Yi Lee Teaching Stylevoidful/hung-yi-lee-skill | 1.3k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| AI Engineering Phase Quizrohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 67k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Claude Certification Tutorrohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 67k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Progressive Hint Ladder
What does Progressive Hint Ladder do?
Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation. Progressive Hint Ladder is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation.
When should I use Progressive Hint Ladder?
Progressive Hint Ladder fits situations like: education work in your project.
How do I install Progressive Hint Ladder in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill progressive-hint-ladder -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/progressive-hint-ladder in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Progressive Hint Ladder in Codex?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill progressive-hint-ladder -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/progressive-hint-ladder in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Progressive Hint Ladder 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 progressive-hint-ladder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/progressive-hint-ladder, .gemini/skills/progressive-hint-ladder, .github/skills/progressive-hint-ladder and .opencode/skills/progressive-hint-ladder in your project.
What does Progressive Hint Ladder need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Progressive Hint Ladder is instructions for the agent only.
Does Progressive Hint Ladder 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 Progressive Hint Ladder 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 Progressive Hint Ladder use?
Progressive Hint Ladder 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 Progressive Hint Ladder use?
About 3.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 15k 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 Progressive Hint Ladder?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Progressive Hint Ladder: AI Engineering Placement Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars), AI Engineering Project Tutor (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars), Hung-Yi Lee Teaching Style (voidful/hung-yi-lee-skill, 1.3k stars) and AI Engineering Phase Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Progressive Hint Ladder?
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.