Agent skill

Project Brief Designer

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a project-based learning brief with a driving question, milestones, and assessment criteria.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Project Brief Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill project-brief-designer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills project-brief-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/curriculum-assessment/project-brief-designer .claude/skills/project-brief-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
project-brief-designer
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~8k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,893 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a project-based learning brief with a driving question, milestones, and assessment criteria.

  • Works in 4 steps: Test the water quality at different… → Identify what's causing the problem → Explain their findings in plain language → …
  • Planning PBL units
  • 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

Project Brief Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a project-based learning brief with a driving question, milestones, and assessment criteria. Use when planning PBL units, inquiry projects, or extended investigations.

Its SKILL.md is about 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 Product & Project Management, covering Project management. 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 PBL units
  • Inquiry projects
  • Extended investigations

Example prompts

  • “/project-brief-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Test the water quality at different points along the river
  2. Identify what's causing the problem
  3. Explain their findings in plain language
  4. Recommend what should be done

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

Project Brief Designer loads about 8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,893 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~8k

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 2,893 words (~8,012 tokens).

“Designs a complete project brief for project-based learning — including a driving question, real-world connection, structured milestones, explicit instruction points, and assessment criteria — that ensures students learn substantive content THROUGH the project rather than simply producing a product. The…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
project-brief-designer
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
curriculum-assessment/project-brief-designer
skill_name
Project Brief Designer (PBL)
domain
curriculum-assessment
version
1.0
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Barron & Darling-Hammond (2008) — Teaching for meaningful learning: a review of research on inquiry-based and cooperative learning, Krajcik & Shin (2014)…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/curriculum-assessment/project-brief-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Project Brief Designer

What does Project Brief Designer do?

Design a project-based learning brief with a driving question, milestones, and assessment criteria. Project Brief Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a project-based learning brief with a driving question, milestones, and assessment criteria.

When should I use Project Brief Designer?

Project Brief Designer fits situations like: planning PBL units; inquiry projects; extended investigations.

How do I install Project Brief Designer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Project Brief Designer in Codex?

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

Can I use Project Brief 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 project-brief-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/project-brief-designer, .gemini/skills/project-brief-designer, .github/skills/project-brief-designer and .opencode/skills/project-brief-designer in your project.

What does Project Brief Designer need to run?

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

Does Project Brief 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 Project Brief 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 Project Brief Designer use?

Project Brief 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 Project Brief Designer use?

About 8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 32k 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 Project Brief Designer?

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Who maintains Project Brief Designer?

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.