Agent skill

Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a practitioner inquiry cycle from research question through data collection to evidence-informed action.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedEducation

Install Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills teacher-inquiry-cycle-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/professional-learning/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer .claude/skills/teacher-inquiry-cycle-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
teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,794 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a practitioner inquiry cycle from research question through data collection to evidence-informed action.

  • Works in 4 steps: Weekly retrieval data: The teacher's… → Mid-point vocabulary quiz (Week 6): A… → End-of-topic test (Week 8): Compare… → …
  • Starting action research
  • 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

Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a practitioner inquiry cycle from research question through data collection to evidence-informed action. Use when starting action research, teacher-led investigation, or professional inquiry.

Its SKILL.md is about 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 Education, covering Hypothesis generation. 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

  • Starting action research
  • Teacher-led investigation
  • Professional inquiry

Example prompts

  • “/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Weekly retrieval data: The teacher's lesson log — percentage of students answering vocabulary questions correctly. Track this over the 6…
  2. Mid-point vocabulary quiz (Week 6): A 10-term vocabulary quiz on the current topic, administered under the same conditions as the baseline…
  3. End-of-topic test (Week 8): Compare student performance on vocabulary-dependent questions to performance on the previous two end-of-topic…
  4. Student voice (Week 8): Repeat the 3-question survey from Week 1. Has student confidence with vocabulary changed? Have students noticed…

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

Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer loads about 5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,794 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
~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 1,794 words (~5,036 tokens).

“Designs a structured teacher inquiry cycle — a form of practitioner research where a teacher investigates a specific question about their practice and its impact on student learning, collects evidence, analyses what they find, and draws conclusions that inform their…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
professional-learning/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer
skill_name
Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer
domain
professional-learning
version
1.0
evidence_strength
strong
evidence_sources
Timperley (2011) — Realizing the Power of Professional Learning, Timperley et al. (2007) — Teacher Professional Learning and Development: Best Evidence…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/professional-learning/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer

What does Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer do?

Design a practitioner inquiry cycle from research question through data collection to evidence-informed action. Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a practitioner inquiry cycle from research question through data collection to evidence-informed action.

When should I use Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer?

Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer fits situations like: starting action research; teacher-led investigation; professional inquiry.

How do I install Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer in Codex?

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

Can I use Teacher Inquiry Cycle 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 teacher-inquiry-cycle-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/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer, .gemini/skills/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer, .github/skills/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer and .opencode/skills/teacher-inquiry-cycle-designer in your project.

What does Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer need to run?

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

Does Teacher Inquiry Cycle 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 Teacher Inquiry Cycle 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 Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer use?

Teacher Inquiry Cycle 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 Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer use?

About 5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 20k 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 Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Teacher Inquiry Cycle Designer: Sciatlas Idea Evaluate (zjunlp/SciAtlas, 160 stars), Research Proposal (gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, 174 stars), Proposal Agent (OpenRSI-Foundation/OpenRSI-Index, 207 stars) and Hypothesis Gen (gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, 174 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Teacher Inquiry Cycle 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.