Agent skill

Yao Tutorial Skill

by yaojingang in yaojingang/yao-open-skills

Create standalone beginner tutorial packages from a topic or supplied references, with adaptive research, course-style outline design, chapter visuals, and Markdown/DOCX/PDF/HTML exports.

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Yao Tutorial Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-tutorial-skill -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install yaojingang/yao-open-skills yao-tutorial-skill --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/yaojingang/yao-open-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/yao-tutorial-skill .claude/skills/yao-tutorial-skill && 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
yao-tutorial-skill
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~698 tokens
SKILL.md length
223 words
Files
124 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Create standalone beginner tutorial packages from a topic or supplied references, with adaptive research, course-style outline design, chapter visuals, and Markdown/DOCX/PDF/HTML exports.

  • Works in 7 steps: Normalize topic, audience, outcome,… → Read references/input-adaptation.md; use… → Read references/research-sourcing.md;… → …
  • Textbook-like tutorials
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Quality Gates and References
  • Teaching documents

What it does

Yao Tutorial Skill is an agent skill from yaojingang/yao-open-skills. Create standalone beginner tutorial packages from a topic or supplied references, with adaptive research, course-style outline design, chapter visuals, and Markdown/DOCX/PDF/HTML exports. Use for textbook-like tutorials, course guides, teaching documents, or long beginner guides; not for quick answers, link summaries, pure diagrams, or file conversion.

Its SKILL.md is about 700 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 129 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `README.md`, `agents/interface.yaml` and `evals/semantic_config.json`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Word documents, Document parsing and Diagrams. It works with Microsoft Word. The repository describes itself as: OpenYao public skills collection: reusable AI assets for decision-making, business analysis, tutorials, research evidence gathering, and document generation. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Textbook-like tutorials
  • Teaching documents
  • Long beginner guides
  • Not for quick answers

Example prompts

  • “/yao-tutorial-skill”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Normalize topic, audience, outcome, language, formats, user material, style references, and exclusions into brief.json.
  2. Read references/input-adaptation.md; use user material as the spine when sufficient, then add only needed external research.
  3. Read references/research-sourcing.md; create research/user-materials-register.md when needed, research/source-register.md, and…
  4. Read references/tutorial-outline-and-writing.md plus references/course-design-principles.md; write outline.md, standalone public…
  5. Read the editorial and visual references; create visuals/visual-spec.json, then run build_visual_pack.py and capture_visuals.py.
  6. Read references/export-workflow.md; run export_tutorial.py and then validate_package.py.
  7. Report exact failures and fallbacks. Never fabricate X posts, papers, repo details, dates, or citations.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 093996e. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

    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

Yao Tutorial Skill loads about 698 tokens when it runs, and up to ~14k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 223 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~698
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~14k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from yaojingang/yao-open-skills at commit 093996e, republished under its MIT licence (© yaojingang). 223 words, ~698 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/yao-tutorial-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 123 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
yao-tutorial-skill
description
Create standalone beginner tutorial packages from a topic or supplied references, with adaptive research, course-style outline design, chapter visuals, and Markdown/DOCX/PDF/HTML exports. Use for textbook-like tutorials, course guides, teaching documents, or long beginner guides; not for quick answers, link summaries, pure diagrams, or file conversion.

Yao Tutorial Skill

Workflow

  1. Normalize topic, audience, outcome, language, formats, user material, style references, and exclusions into brief.json.
  2. Read references/input-adaptation.md; use user material as the spine when sufficient, then add only needed external research.
  3. Read references/research-sourcing.md; create research/user-materials-register.md when needed, research/source-register.md, and research/evidence-map.md.
  4. Read references/tutorial-outline-and-writing.md plus references/course-design-principles.md; write outline.md, standalone public tutorial.md using 第1章 and 1.1, and research/chapter-quality-review.md.
  5. Read the editorial and visual references; create visuals/visual-spec.json, then run build_visual_pack.py and capture_visuals.py.
  6. Read references/export-workflow.md; run export_tutorial.py and then validate_package.py.
  7. Report exact failures and fallbacks. Never fabricate X posts, papers, repo details, dates, or citations.

Quality Gates

  • User material controls intent when strong enough; external evidence fills verification and gaps.
  • Public exports never show internal source IDs or reference-packet provenance.
  • Copy reads as a standalone formal teaching product.
  • Every numbered chapter has a matching visual spec and embedded visual.
  • Depth is governed by learning sufficiency, not a fixed word limit; continue until the learner can understand, apply, and self-check the topic.
  • Every numbered chapter has an independent quality review for depth, examples, practice, evidence, visual fit, and back-half consistency.
  • HTML uses centered report-shell; DOCX/PDF have no visible headers, footers, local paths, or print chrome.
  • Delivery passes scripts/validate_package.py or names the remaining warnings/failures.

References

  • references/input-adaptation.md
  • references/research-sourcing.md
  • references/tutorial-outline-and-writing.md
  • references/course-design-principles.md
  • references/editorial-production.md
  • references/visual-html-workflow.md
  • references/visual-board-benchmarks.md
  • references/export-workflow.md
  • scripts/build_visual_pack.py, scripts/capture_visuals.py, scripts/export_tutorial.py, scripts/validate_package.py
  • templates/topic-brief-template.json, templates/visual-spec-template.json, templates/tutorial-style.css

© yaojingang, 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 123 other files (scripts, references) in skills/yao-tutorial-skill of yaojingang/yao-open-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • agents/interface.yaml
  • evals/semantic_config.json
  • evals/trigger_cases.json
  • examples/README.md
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-01.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-02.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-03.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-04.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-05.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-06.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/assets/screenshots/chapter-07.png
  • examples/english-freedom-route/brief.json
  • examples/english-freedom-route/exports
  • … and 109 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 093996e

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Questions about Yao Tutorial Skill

What does Yao Tutorial Skill do?

Create standalone beginner tutorial packages from a topic or supplied references, with adaptive research, course-style outline design, chapter visuals, and Markdown/DOCX/PDF/HTML exports. Yao Tutorial Skill is an agent skill from yaojingang/yao-open-skills. Create standalone beginner tutorial packages from a topic or supplied references, with adaptive research, course-style outline design, chapter visuals, and Markdown/DOCX/PDF/HTML exports.

When should I use Yao Tutorial Skill?

Yao Tutorial Skill fits situations like: textbook-like tutorials; teaching documents; long beginner guides; not for quick answers.

How do I install Yao Tutorial Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-tutorial-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/yao-tutorial-skill in yaojingang/yao-open-skills) into .claude/skills/yao-tutorial-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Yao Tutorial Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-tutorial-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/yao-tutorial-skill in yaojingang/yao-open-skills) into .agents/skills/yao-tutorial-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Yao Tutorial Skill 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 yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-tutorial-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/yao-tutorial-skill, .gemini/skills/yao-tutorial-skill, .github/skills/yao-tutorial-skill and .opencode/skills/yao-tutorial-skill in your project.

What does Yao Tutorial Skill need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Yao Tutorial Skill is instructions for the agent only.

Does Yao Tutorial Skill 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 Yao Tutorial Skill 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Yao Tutorial Skill use?

Yao Tutorial Skill 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 Yao Tutorial Skill use?

About 698 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 13k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Yao Tutorial Skill?

yaojingang (a GitHub user) maintains it in yaojingang/yao-open-skills, which has 1,322 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.

Source: yaojingang/yao-open-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.