Canva Classroom Helper
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Turn a lesson plan into a teaching slide deck in Canva. An agent skill from canva-sdks/canva-skills.
Designs a slide-driven masterclass lecture as one continuous argument, with dense pages, long narration, real recurring cases and rare, deliberate checkpoints instead of frequent quizzes.
SKILL.md written in Chinese; this summary is our English description.
Install Masterclass Lecture Designer
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC lecture-style --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style .claude/skills/lecture-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "lecture-style" agent skill from https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style into .claude/skills/lecture-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lecture-style", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-styleType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC lecture-style --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style .agents/skills/lecture-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "lecture-style" agent skill from https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style into .agents/skills/lecture-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lecture-style", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC lecture-style --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style .cursor/skills/lecture-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "lecture-style" agent skill from https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style into .cursor/skills/lecture-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lecture-style", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git --path skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC lecture-style --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style .gemini/skills/lecture-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "lecture-style" agent skill from https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style into .gemini/skills/lecture-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lecture-style", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC lecture-styleInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style .github/skills/lecture-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "lecture-style" agent skill from https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style into .github/skills/lecture-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lecture-style", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC lecture-style --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style .opencode/skills/lecture-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "lecture-style" agent skill from https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/tree/main/skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style into .opencode/skills/lecture-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lecture-style", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
lecture-style- GitHub stars
- 40k
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 831 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 25
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Designs a slide-driven masterclass lecture as one continuous argument, with dense pages, long narration, real recurring cases and rare, deliberate checkpoints instead of frequent quizzes.
- Designing a masterclass-style lecture on a subject meant to build understanding
- SKILL.md covers The shape, Page density, Narration is the lecture and The roster, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Structuring a long explanation into arcs with real recurring cases
What it does
The skill shapes a lecture as a single explanation rather than a sequence of disconnected pages: the opening slide states the question the lecture answers and the route it will take, the body runs in arcs of three to five pages that each carry one idea from claim through mechanism to a tested real case, and the closing page returns to the argument itself rather than a bullet-point recap. It treats a page that makes only one point as wasted, requiring four to six key points per body page written as propositions rather than labels, each page built around one claim and the evidence that backs it.
Checkpoints are deliberately rare: roughly one quiz every four to five pages, placed at the seam between arcs to test whether the idea can be applied rather than recalled, and at most one fully interactive page reserved for the single most mechanism-heavy concept in the whole lecture. A named real case, such as a company, a study or a piece of code, recurs across each arc rather than being swapped out every page, since cycling through fresh unexplained examples teaches nothing durable. A companion stage-design skill still governs the underlying scene and audio mechanics; this skill governs what each page contains and how the narration sounds.
When your agent uses it
- Designing a masterclass-style lecture on a subject meant to build understanding
- Structuring a long explanation into arcs with real recurring cases
- Deciding how often to place quizzes or an interactive page in a lecture
Example prompts
- “Design a masterclass lecture on interest rate effects on company valuations.”
- “Turn this topic into a lecture with three arcs and one interactive page at the hardest concept.”
- “Write the opening slide for a systematic lecture on this subject.”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7d324aa. 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
Masterclass Lecture Designer loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 141 tokens; SKILL.md has 831 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 7d324aa, republished under its MIT licence (© THU-MAIC). 831 words, ~1,476 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/lecture-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- lecture-style
- description
- Masterclass lecturing — one continuous explanation carried by slides, with dense pages, long narration that builds an argument across several real cases, and checkpoints that are rare and deliberate. Use when the ask is a lecture, a masterclass, a systematic walkthrough of a subject, 「大师课」「系统讲解」「讲透」, or any topic whose payoff is understanding rather than practice; also use when the user names this style. Not for hands-on training (that is `workshop-style`) and not for a course whose point is manipulating a mechanism (that is `deep-interactive`).
- title
- 大师讲授
Masterclass lecture design
You are designing a lecture. One voice carries the learner from not knowing the subject to being able to explain it, and the pages exist to support that explanation rather than to interrupt it. Density is a feature here: a lecture page that says one thing is a wasted page.
stage-design still governs how the stage is built — outline, roster, one page
per generate_scene, audio before done. This skill governs what the stage
contains and how it sounds.
The shape
- Scene 1 is a
slidethat opens the lecture properly — the question the subject answers, why it is worth an hour, and the route the lecture takes through it. Not a definitions page and not a table of contents. - The body is
slidepages, in arcs. An arc is three to five pages that carry one idea from statement to consequence — the claim, the mechanism underneath it, then real cases that test it. Arcs follow each other; the lecture never restarts. - Checkpoints are rare. One
quizroughly every four to five pages, placed at the seam where one arc closes and the next begins, testing whether the learner can apply the arc's idea rather than recall its words. Two quizzes in six pages is not a lecture, it is a test with slides in between. - At most one
interactivepage, at the single most mechanism-heavy concept in the whole lecture — the one place where telling genuinely fails and the learner has to see the thing move. If the subject has two such concepts, a second is defensible; a third means the request was never a lecture anddeep-interactivefits it better. - Close on the argument, not on a bullet recap: what the lecture established, what it deliberately left open, where a curious learner goes next.
Page density
Each body page carries four to six keyPoints and they are propositions,
not labels — 「利率上升先压估值再压盈利」rather than 「利率影响」. A page holds
one claim plus the evidence that makes it stick: a definition and its
boundary, a mechanism and a worked case, a comparison and the criterion that
separates the two sides.
Name a real case per arc — a company, a study, a historical episode, a piece of code — and let it recur. A lecture that cycles through a fresh unexplained example every page teaches nothing about any of them.
Narration is the lecture
This is where the style is heard, so it is the part to get right.
- Every body page gets a long, continuous stretch of teacher speech — four to six sentences per line rather than a caption, and several lines to a page. The learner should be able to close their eyes and still follow.
- Narration moves forward. Each line picks up the last one's final idea: state it, explain the mechanism, then walk a concrete case through that mechanism until the conclusion is unavoidable.
- The register is an authority thinking aloud in front of a room — full sentences, confident, unhurried, occasionally naming what is hard about the idea before resolving it.
- The assistant speaks rarely, and only to ask the question the room is already thinking, which the teacher then answers at length. One such exchange per arc, at most.
- Forbidden in this style: 「大家想一想」-style prompts with nothing behind them, one-line captions that restate the slide's title, and cheerleading (「太棒了」「让我们开始吧」).
Examples of the right length and motion:
- Good: 「我们先把定义钉住——所谓久期，不是债券还剩多少年，而是价格对利率的 敏感度……接下来看 2022 年的例子，同样的加息幅度，为什么二十年期的跌幅是五年期 的四倍多。」
- Bad: 「这一页讲久期。久期很重要。下面我们来看例子。」
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The roster
The runtime allows exactly one teacher, and in this style that teacher is
the lecturer — the whole course is their voice. Write the roster with
set_roster: a senior domain authority with a calm, measured delivery, plus
one assistant whose entire job is to raise the sharp question at an arc
boundary. Keep the roster small; a crowded classroom fragments a lecture. Put
the lecturing manner in the persona text and the pacing in
voiceDesign.delivery — 「calm measured authoritative, unhurried」 rather than
「lively energetic」.
Carrying the style into the generators
There is no outline generator: you plan the course in the conversation, then
call create_stage and one generate_scene per page with an explicit brief.
Page content and narration are written by separate calls that see only the
page's brief, the page content and the roster. So the style has to be carried
there explicitly:
- put the arc structure and the density expectation into each page's
generate_scenebrief; - put the lecturing manner into each persona of
set_roster; - pass the narration directive for each page in
generate_scene.materialFacts— e.g. 「旁白为连续讲述，四到六句一段，先定义再机制再案例」「本页复用前一页 的同一家公司作为案例」. Naming this skill in a prompt does nothing; only the text you place in those fields is seen.
Scene naming
Titles are the lecture's own steps, in the language of the subject.
- Good: 「久期到底在度量什么」「同样加息，为什么长债跌得更狠」「三个反例，和它们 的共同点」
- Bad: 「概念介绍」「案例分析」「本课总结」
If the request is not a lecture
If the user wants to practise a skill, produce something of their own, or work
through exercises, say so in one sentence and use workshop-style instead.
Wrapping a practice request in a lecture produces a course the learner watches
and cannot use.
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Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style of THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.
- SKILL.md
- outline-constraints.json
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7d324aa
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What does Masterclass Lecture Designer do?
Designs a slide-driven masterclass lecture as one continuous argument, with dense pages, long narration, real recurring cases and rare, deliberate checkpoints instead of frequent quizzes. The skill shapes a lecture as a single explanation rather than a sequence of disconnected pages: the opening slide states the question the lecture answers and the route it will take, the body runs in arcs of three to five pages that each carry one idea from claim through mechanism to a tested real case, and the closing page returns to the argument itself rather than a bullet-point recap. It treats a page that makes only one point as wasted, requiring four to six key points per body page written as propositions rather than labels, each page built around one claim and the evidence that backs it.
When should I use Masterclass Lecture Designer?
Masterclass Lecture Designer fits situations like: designing a masterclass-style lecture on a subject meant to build understanding; structuring a long explanation into arcs with real recurring cases; deciding how often to place quizzes or an interactive page in a lecture.
How do I install Masterclass Lecture Designer in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC) into .claude/skills/lecture-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Masterclass Lecture Designer in Codex?
Run `npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/agent-runtime/lecture-style in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC) into .agents/skills/lecture-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Masterclass Lecture 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 THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill lecture-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/lecture-style, .gemini/skills/lecture-style, .github/skills/lecture-style and .opencode/skills/lecture-style in your project.
What does Masterclass Lecture Designer need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Masterclass Lecture Designer is instructions for the agent only.
Does Masterclass Lecture 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 Masterclass Lecture 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 Masterclass Lecture Designer use?
Masterclass Lecture Designer 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 Masterclass Lecture Designer use?
About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Masterclass Lecture Designer?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Masterclass Lecture Designer: Canva Classroom Helper (canva-sdks/canva-skills, 119 stars), Teaching Resource Research Skill (mingchen666/Reviva, 244 stars), HTML Ppt Course Module (sanqiufong/slides-from-anything, 132 stars) and Lecture Slides Summarizer (Li-Baichuan-James/summarize-slides-skill, 313 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Masterclass Lecture Designer?
THU-MAIC (a GitHub organization) maintains it in THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, which has 40,274 GitHub stars. The repository holds 25 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 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.