Agent skill

Deep Interactive Course Design

by THU-MAIC in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC

Plans online courses so learners manipulate simulations, diagrams, code, games or 3D scenes on most pages, with slides only for the opening and the close.

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Install Deep Interactive Course Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill deep-interactive -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC deep-interactive --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/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/deep-interactive .claude/skills/deep-interactive && 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
deep-interactive
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~681 tokens
SKILL.md length
304 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
25
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Plans online courses so learners manipulate simulations, diagrams, code, games or 3D scenes on most pages, with slides only for the opening and the close.

  • Designing a course on a topic with a mechanism or a variable to vary
  • SKILL.md covers Structure, Choosing a widget type, widgetOutline and Scene naming, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Planning a lesson around a process the learner can trace step by step

What it does

The skill changes how a course outline is planned: a page counts as a slide only when the learner has nothing to manipulate on it. Scene one is a slide that frames the question and says what the learner will play with, the body is made of interactive scenes that each isolate one mechanism, variable or structure, and the last scene is a slide or quiz that pulls together what the manipulation showed.

Five widget types are on offer, simulation, diagram, code, game and visualization3d, and two interactive scenes in a row may not share a type. Each interactive scene carries a widgetOutline filled in for its type, for example key variables for a simulation or nodes with parent ids for a diagram. Scene titles name what the learner does or discovers, and keyPoints describe the interaction and what it reveals instead of listing facts. A constraints file, outline-constraints.json, ships with the skill.

When your agent uses it

  • Designing a course on a topic with a mechanism or a variable to vary
  • Planning a lesson around a process the learner can trace step by step
  • Turning a slide-heavy outline into interactive scenes
  • Choosing which widget type fits a concept

Example prompts

  • “Plan a course on projectile motion where students change the launch angle and watch the range.”
  • “Outline a lesson on how a request moves through a web server, using diagrams the learner can expand.”
  • “Rework this slide outline on sorting algorithms so most scenes are interactive.”

Requirements

  • A course generator that accepts slide, interactive and quiz scenes with widget outlines

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fd9f71. 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

Deep Interactive Course Design loads about 681 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 304 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~681

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

The full file from THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC at commit 9fd9f71, republished under its MIT licence (© THU-MAIC). 304 words, ~681 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/deep-interactive/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
deep-interactive
description
Deep Interactive courses. Plans the course so the learner manipulates something on most pages — simulations, diagrams they explore, code they run, games, 3D scenes — with slides reserved for the opening frame and the closing consolidation. Use when the topic has a mechanism, a variable to vary, a process to trace, or a structure to inspect.
title
深度交互

Deep Interactive course design

Default to doing, not reading. A page earns the slide type only when the learner has nothing to manipulate on it.

Structure

  • Scene 1 is a slide: it frames the question the course answers and tells the learner what they are about to play with. One page, no more.
  • The body is interactive. Each body scene isolates one mechanism, one variable, one structure — so the learner can change it and watch the result.
  • The last scene is a slide or a quiz that consolidates what the manipulation showed.
  • Consecutive interactive scenes must not use the same widgetType. Two simulations in a row is a design failure; vary the modality as the concept moves from "watch it" to "trace it" to "predict it".

Choosing a widget type

widgetTypeUse when the learner should…
simulationvary parameters and watch a system respond in real time
diagramexplore structure, flow or hierarchy by expanding and following
coderead, modify and run a short program that embodies the idea
gamemake repeated decisions under a rule set and see the score move
visualization3dinspect a spatial object or scene from angles a slide cannot show

widgetOutline

Every interactive scene must carry a widgetOutline populated for its type — an interactive scene with an empty widget outline degrades to a generic page and defeats the whole point.

  • simulation: concept, keyVariables (the actual sliders/inputs)
  • diagram: diagramType, nodes (with label, and parentId for hierarchy)
  • code: language, concept
  • game: gameType, challenge, playerControls
  • visualization3d: visualizationType, objects, interactions

Scene naming

Titles name what the learner does or discovers, not the topic heading.

  • Good: 「拖动倾角,看射程怎么变」「顺着数据流走一遍」「猜下一步会发生什么」
  • Bad: 「抛体运动」「数据流概述」「知识点回顾」

keyPoints

For an interactive scene, keyPoints describe the interaction and what it reveals — what the learner changes, what they observe, what conclusion the observation forces. Not a bullet list of facts to be read out.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/agent-runtime/deep-interactive of THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.

  • SKILL.md
  • outline-constraints.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fd9f71

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Questions about Deep Interactive Course Design

What does Deep Interactive Course Design do?

Plans online courses so learners manipulate simulations, diagrams, code, games or 3D scenes on most pages, with slides only for the opening and the close. The skill changes how a course outline is planned: a page counts as a slide only when the learner has nothing to manipulate on it. Scene one is a slide that frames the question and says what the learner will play with, the body is made of interactive scenes that each isolate one mechanism, variable or structure, and the last scene is a slide or quiz that pulls together what the manipulation showed.

When should I use Deep Interactive Course Design?

Deep Interactive Course Design fits situations like: designing a course on a topic with a mechanism or a variable to vary; planning a lesson around a process the learner can trace step by step; turning a slide-heavy outline into interactive scenes; choosing which widget type fits a concept.

How do I install Deep Interactive Course Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill deep-interactive -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/agent-runtime/deep-interactive in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC) into .claude/skills/deep-interactive in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Deep Interactive Course Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill deep-interactive -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/agent-runtime/deep-interactive in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC) into .agents/skills/deep-interactive in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Deep Interactive Course Design 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 THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill deep-interactive -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/deep-interactive, .gemini/skills/deep-interactive, .github/skills/deep-interactive and .opencode/skills/deep-interactive in your project.

What does Deep Interactive Course Design need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Deep Interactive Course Design is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: A course generator that accepts slide, interactive and quiz scenes with widget outlines.

Does Deep Interactive Course Design 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 Deep Interactive Course Design 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 Deep Interactive Course Design use?

Deep Interactive Course Design is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Deep Interactive Course Design use?

About 681 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k 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 Deep Interactive Course Design?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Deep Interactive Course Design: Teaching Resource Research Skill (mingchen666/Reviva, 236 stars), Worksheet Skill (mingchen666/Reviva, 236 stars), Competency Unpacker (GarethManning/education-agent-skills, 830 stars) and HTML Ppt Course Module (sanqiufong/slides-from-anything, 132 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Deep Interactive Course Design?

THU-MAIC (a GitHub organization) maintains it in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, which has 40,059 GitHub stars. The repository holds 25 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.