Agent skill

Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a RULER emotional literacy sequence for recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, and regulating emotions.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence --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/wellbeing-motivation-agency/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence .claude/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence && 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
ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~5.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,977 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a RULER emotional literacy sequence for recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, and regulating emotions.

  • Works in 4 steps: Make the Mood Meter visible and used.… → Model the Meta-Moment when YOU feel… → Normalise the vocabulary. Use emotion… → …
  • Students struggle with emotional regulation
  • 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

Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a RULER emotional literacy sequence for recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, and regulating emotions. Use when students struggle with emotional regulation, conflict, or anxiety.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.5k 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 Productivity & Automation, covering Health and fitness tracking. 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

  • Students struggle with emotional regulation
  • Tasks that involve Health and fitness tracking

Example prompts

  • “/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Make the Mood Meter visible and used. Keep it on the wall. Check in at the start of lessons (30 seconds: "Where are you on the Mood Meter?…
  2. Model the Meta-Moment when YOU feel frustrated. "I'm going to take a Meta-Moment. I'm frustrated because the technology isn't working. My…
  3. Normalise the vocabulary. Use emotion words in everyday conversation: "You look apprehensive — what's on your mind?" / "I can see some…
  4. Return to the Meta-Moment before every high-stakes event. Before exams, before presentations, before parents' evening: "Let's do a…

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

Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence loads about 5.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,977 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.5k

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 1,977 words (~5,481 tokens).

“Designs a structured sequence for developing emotional literacy using the RULER framework from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence — teaching students to Recognise emotions in themselves and others, Understand the causes and consequences of emotions, Label emotions with a…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
wellbeing-motivation-agency/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence
skill_name
RULER Emotional Literacy Sequence
domain
wellbeing-motivation-agency
version
1.0
evidence_strength
strong
evidence_sources
Brackett (2019) — Permission to Feel: the power of emotional intelligence to achieve well-being and success, Brackett et al. (2012) — RULER: a theory-driven…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/wellbeing-motivation-agency/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence

What does Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence do?

Design a RULER emotional literacy sequence for recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, and regulating emotions. Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a RULER emotional literacy sequence for recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, and regulating emotions.

When should I use Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence?

Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence fits situations like: students struggle with emotional regulation; tasks that involve Health and fitness tracking.

How do I install Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/wellbeing-motivation-agency/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/wellbeing-motivation-agency/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence 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 ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence, .gemini/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence, .github/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence and .opencode/skills/ruler-emotional-literacy-sequence in your project.

What does Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence is instructions for the agent only.

Does Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence 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 Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence 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 Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence use?

Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence 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 Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence use?

About 5.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 22k 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 Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence?

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Who maintains Ruler Emotional Literacy Sequence?

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.