Agent skill

Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Define the scope and purpose of a complex inquiry before mapping or futures work begins.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedEducation

Install Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry --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/original-frameworks/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry .claude/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry && 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
scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry
GitHub stars
835
Token cost
~3.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
960 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
142
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Define the scope and purpose of a complex inquiry before mapping or futures work begins.

  • Works in 5 steps: Accepting vague scope. "We're… → Skipping the focal actor. An inquiry… → Conflating transactional and contextual… → …
  • Group needs to agree what they are investigating
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Space and Strength of…, Input Schema and Prompt, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Define the scope and purpose of a complex inquiry before mapping or futures work begins. Use when a class or group needs to agree what they are investigating, who it matters to, and at what scale.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.7k 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. 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

  • Group needs to agree what they are investigating
  • Who it matters to

Example prompts

  • “/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Accepting vague scope. "We're investigating climate change" is not a scoping statement. Press for specificity: whose experience of which…
  2. Skipping the focal actor. An inquiry without a named focal actor drifts between perspectives without building shared understanding. Every…
  3. Conflating transactional and contextual environments. The transactional environment contains what students can interact with or influence…
  4. Setting scope to match the desired answer. A scoping statement designed to produce a predetermined conclusion is not genuine inquiry…
  5. Treating scope as final. The scoping statement is a starting position, not a contract. Revisit and revise it when new evidence changes…

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

Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry loads about 3.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 960 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.7k

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 960 words (~3,659 tokens).

“Helps a teacher or class define the precise arena, focal actor, and purpose of an inquiry before applying any other method. Scoping is the first step in the H3Uni sequence. It prevents the most common failure in systems and futures…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
low
skill_id
original-frameworks/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry
skill_name
Scoping for Transformative Learning Inquiry
domain
original-frameworks
version
1.0
evidence_strength
emerging
evidence_sources
H3Uni Scoping tutorial and facilitation guide (CC BY-SA 4.0, practitioner method), Fazey, I. et al. (2018). Ten essentials for action-oriented and second…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/original-frameworks/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry

What does Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry do?

Define the scope and purpose of a complex inquiry before mapping or futures work begins. Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Define the scope and purpose of a complex inquiry before mapping or futures work begins.

When should I use Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry?

Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry fits situations like: group needs to agree what they are investigating; who it matters to.

How do I install Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/original-frameworks/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/original-frameworks/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry 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 scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry, .gemini/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry, .github/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry and .opencode/skills/scoping-for-transformative-learning-inquiry in your project.

What does Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry is instructions for the agent only.

Does Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry 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 Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry 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 Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry use?

Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry 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 Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry use?

About 3.7k 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 Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry: DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars), Zhang Xuefeng Perspective (alchaincyf/zhangxuefeng-skill, 10k stars), Deep Reading Analyst (ginobefun/deep-reading-analyst-skill, 353 stars) and AI Engineering Placement Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 66k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Scoping For Transformative Learning Inquiry?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 835 GitHub stars. The repository holds 142 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.