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Best tutoring and explanations skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Tutoring and explanations skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teaches the agent to set up and run DeepTutor from the command line: chat and capabilities, knowledge bases, partners, memory, sessions, notebooks and the server or Web app. | HKUDS/ | 41k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 2 | Tutors a learner through one stage of a hands-on AI engineering project per session: lesson, prediction, code, grader run and reflection, with hints but never full solutions. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Explains machine learning, LLMs, AI agents and speech modeling in a Hung-Yi Lee-inspired teaching style, drawing on a knowledge base built from his lectures and research references. | voidful/ | 1.3k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Guides a learner through one of four independent Claude certification tracks with onboarding, lessons, practice labs, mock exams and remediation. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Quizzes you on the notes in an Obsidian StudyVault, tracks proficiency per concept and drills weak areas in four-question rounds. | bevibing/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 6 | Designs a review-and-practice lesson around an independent first attempt, targeted feedback, supported practice, a fresh independent check and a next step. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 7 | Routes a topic, question or bug to the exact lessons in the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum and suggests the next command to run. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 8 | Experiment executor and monitor for academic research. An agent skill from Imbad0202/experiment-agent. | Imbad0202/ | 199 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | 12 days ago |
| 9 | Teaches the next lesson of the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum in the terminal, quizzes you at the end and records your progress. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Runs an interactive quiz in a quick or comprehensive mode, scores your skill level by topic and generates a personalized learning path with practice projects. | FlorianBruniaux/ | 6.1k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | today |
| 11 | Runs a quick or deep quiz on Claude Code skills, scores ten feature areas and generates a personalized learning path with prioritized next steps. | luongnv89/ | 42k | — | ~5.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 12 | Adds a matching Claude Academy course, tutorial or use case to the end of an answer about learning to use Claude, but only when the match is strong. | anthropics/ | 180k | 3 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 13 | Guides you to an answer through escalating questions instead of explaining directly, over code, documents, or any file you point it at. | bevibing/ | 327 | — | ~754 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 14 | 14.Learn Learn any topic properly — first-principles curriculum, generation-first tutoring, verified free recall, FSRS scheduling. | nagisanzenin/ | 1.4k | — | ~6.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 15 | Turns a GitHub course repository into an interactive tutor for the MCP Associate certification, making the learner explain and defend each step. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | 16.Socratic This skill should be used when the user asks to "build", "design", "scaffold", "architect", or "plan" any system, feature, service, app, agent, pipeline, connector, or tool — especially when the… | m4vic/ | 127 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | 17.Bloom Tutor A skill your agent uses when 用户想以一对一苏格拉底导师的方式系统学习一个课题——开一门新课、推进课题的下一篇、提交学习反馈或说「我读完了」、或整理/查看学习日志。基于 Bloom 2 Sigma 的交互式学习系统。触发词：开个文件夹学X、我想学X、帮我学X、继续、下一篇、我读完了、整理学习、查看学习日志、interactive Socratic… | Li-Evan/ | 282 | — | ~719 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 20 days ago |
| 18 | Onboards a learner into the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum with an interview and placement quiz, and writes a persistent LEARNING.md study plan. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Teach testing progressively through structured sessions. An agent skill from bmad-code-org/bmad-method-test-architecture-enterprise. | bmad-code-org/ | 104 | 3 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 20 | 20.Superlearn Build an interactive learning board on any topic. An agent skill from raiyanyahya/Superlearn. | raiyanyahya/ | 121 | — | ~6.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 21 | 21.Greentext Explain system behavior, request flows, architecture, or implementation logic as short 4chan-style greentext lines. | dedalus-labs/ | 181 | — | ~708 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 22 | 22.Learn A skill your agent uses when user wants to learn a topic or create a study plan. | kirilxd/ | 134 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 23 | A skill your agent uses when drafting a mathematical concept explanation for the "Proving Nothing" book — produces book-ready, dependency-aware, multimodal (Sage + manim), fact-checked material… | CharlesHoskinson/ | 116 | — | ~805 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 24 | Socratic coding tutor powered by GitHub Copilot. An agent skill from timothywarner/chatgptclass. | timothywarner/ | 143 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 18 days ago |
| 25 | Breaks AI-generated text into checkable claims, verifies them against independent sources and labels each one, with an optional exercise for learners. | iflytek/ | 5.2k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 26 | A skill your agent uses when creating or developing anything, before writing code or implementation plans - refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured Socratic questioning… | ed3dai/ | 250 | 1 repo | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 27 | 27.Teach One-to-one tutor using the Alvar method — probe the edge of this mind, plan a mermaid DAG, then teach one reasoning step at a time with a lock-in quiz. | vasanthsreeram/ | 162 | — | ~620 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 28 | Explain something by writing it on a board. An agent skill from pandazki/pneuma-skills. | pandazki/ | 162 | — | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 29 | Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 30 | 30.Learn Help a user learn a topic through adaptive tutoring, lesson planning, practice, retrieval checks, explanations, study guides, or exercises. | dair-ai/ | 614 | 2 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 31 | Interactive tutorial where the agent teaches Medusa development by guiding you through building a brands feature, with lessons and verification checkpoints. | medusajs/ | 225 | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 days ago |
| 32 | 模拟高三语文辅导老师，辅导现代文阅读、古诗文鉴赏、文言文翻译、作文写作等语文问题。重语感培养、文本解读、写作思维。当学生提出语文问题、请求分析课文、讲解古诗词、修改作文时使用。 | flysheep-ai/ | 106 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 mo ago |
| 33 | Turns a concept or lesson material into a Feynman-style classroom where learners explain first, find their smallest gap, rebuild the idea and apply it somewhere new. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~955 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 34 | 34.Deep Dive Socratic interview skill to deepen a spec or refine an existing agent blueprint. | byungjunjang/ | 121 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 35 | General study companion for learning, review, exam prep, exam-point analysis, syllabus/exam-outline interpretation, finals speedrun teaching, concept explanation, problem solving, homework coaching… | mingchen666/ | 236 | — | ~5.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 36 | 36.Interview Use BEFORE roadmap or specify to get the idea OUT OF YOUR HEAD and onto disk — a Socratic interview that surfaces hidden assumptions, names tradeoffs, exposes imprecisions and proposes fresh angles… | genkovich/ | 171 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 37 | A skill your agent uses when an AI tutor session concerns MATLAB programming concepts, MATLAB syntax, MATLAB errors, MATLAB code style, MATLAB projects, or MATLAB toolbox workflows. | matlab/ | 181 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 26 days ago |
| 38 | 38.Course Guide AI Engineering from Scratch 课程的主题路由器。给它一个主题、问题或正在处理的 bug， 它会指出精确教授它的课程，以及下一条正确命令。触发短语： “在哪里学习”、“哪节课涵盖”、“课程导航”、“我卡在”、“接下来该做什么”、 “教我 MCP”、“教我 Agent Skills”、“在哪里准备 Claude certification”，或 "where do I… | fancyboi999/ | 1.2k | — | ~948 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 39 | Interactive tutor that teaches one lesson per invocation on creating, discovering, invoking, securing, evaluating, packaging and porting Agent Skills, logging progress to a file. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | 模拟高三英语辅导老师，辅导英语阅读理解、完形填空、语法填空、写作等问题。重语言能力培养、做题技巧、词汇积累。当学生提出英语问题、请求讲解语法、分析阅读题、修改作文时使用。 | flysheep-ai/ | 106 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 mo ago |
| 41 | A Chinese-language skill that embeds learning strategies like retrieval practice and self-explanation as a parallel goal inside an OpenMAIC subject lesson, without making study skills the topic. | THU-MAIC/ | 40k | — | ~502 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 42 | 42.Deep Dive A Codex skill for Socratic interviews that deepen a spec or refine an existing agent blueprint. | byungjunjang/ | 121 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 43 | Design, deliver, or audit explanations and lessons with a Pinker-informed focus on phenomena, the curse of knowledge, concrete models, active reasoning, feedback, and revision. | AHepi/ | 141 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 44 | A skill your agent uses when an instructor wants to create, interview for, configure, install, update, or review a course AI-use policy for MATLAB AI tutoring. | matlab/ | 181 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 26 days ago |
| 45 | 45.Sc Socratic A skill your agent uses when the user is clarifying beliefs, assumptions, goals, or framing before committing to decision or plan. | kylesnowschwartz/ | 114 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 days ago |
| 46 | 46.Learn AI Engineering from Scratch 课程的交互式课程 tutor。读取 LEARNING.md，获取下一课， 在终端按章节教学，结尾测验并记录进度。可在克隆仓库中或完全通过 raw.githubusercontent.com 工作—— 无需设置。触发短语：“下一课”、“教我”、“继续课程”、“我们来学习”、“继续学习”，或 "next lesson", "teach… | fancyboi999/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 47 | Finds an apt analogy or relational metaphor for a scene, or for the difference between two things, based on structure-mapping theory, and states where the comparison breaks. | lijigang/ | 7.5k | — | ~850 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 48 | An interactive tutor for the Model Context Protocol path in AI Engineering from Scratch, teaching one lesson per invocation and recording wire evidence in MCP-LEARNING.md. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best tutoring and explanations skill?
DeepTutor CLI from HKUDS/DeepTutor ranks first of the 168 tutoring and explanations skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 41k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come AI Engineering Project Tutor and Hung-Yi Lee Teaching Style.
Which tutoring and explanations skills are official?
4 of the 168 tutoring and explanations skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Claude Academy Guide, Teach, Socratic Drill and Mentoring Juniors.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.