Learning Design

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Lesson planning
• Tasks that involve Blog and article writing

Example prompts

• “s Taxonomy, Gagne”
• “learning objectives,”
• “instructional design,”
• “/learning-design”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Chunking Principle: No more than 3 new concepts per lesson
2. 2Redundancy Principle: Don't present identical information in text + audio simultaneously (choose one)
3. 3Spatial Contiguity Principle: Place explanations near related diagrams
4. 4Pre-training Principle: Learn component parts before the complex process
5. 5Progressive Complexity: Start with simplified versions, gradually add complexity

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8e8d35c. 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

Learning Design loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 485 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~94

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

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

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

The full file from revfactory/harness-100 at commit 8e8d35c, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© revfactory). 485 words, ~1,441 tokens.

name

learning-design

description

A learning design skill used by the curriculum-designer and content-writer agents. Provides core instructional design theories and applications including Bloom's Taxonomy, Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction, Backward Design, and Cognitive Load Theory. Used for 'learning objectives,' 'instructional design,' 'curriculum,' 'learning theory,' and related topics.

Step 1: Determine desired results -> "What should learners ultimately be able to do?"
Step 2: Determine assessment evidence -> "What tasks/assessments prove they can do it?"
Step 3: Plan learning experiences -> "What must they learn to pass those assessments?"

[Wrong order]
"Let's teach Python variables" -> "How do we assess?" -> "Make some test questions"

[Correct order (Backward)]
"Learners should be able to build a simple calculator program"
-> "They submit a working calculator program"
-> "Therefore they need to learn variables, I/O, conditionals, and functions"

L1 -> L2 -> L3 -> L4 -> Project

      L2
     /
L1 -> L3 -> Project
     \
      L4

L1(basics) -> L2(basics) -> L3(basics) -> ...
L4(advanced) -> L5(advanced) -> L6(advanced) -> ...
^ Same topics revisited at deeper levels

A (Audience): The learner
B (Behavior): will be able to [action verb]
C (Condition): given [condition]
D (Degree): to [success criterion]

Example: "Beginner learners (A) will be able to implement a CRUD API with Flask (B),
          referencing the official documentation (C), completing 4 endpoints within 30 minutes (D)"

© revfactory, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in en/08-course-builder/.claude/skills/learning-design of revfactory/harness-100.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8e8d35c