165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.
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npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skillsgh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skillsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skillsSkills in this collection
- Academic Language Sentence Frame GeneratorGareth ManningGenerate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production across proficiency levels. Use when EAL students need structured language support for classroom discourse.
- Adaptive Hint Sequence DesignerGareth ManningGenerate a cascading hint sequence for a problem type, revealing progressively without giving answers. Use when designing tutoring dialogues or scaffolded worksheets.
- Agency Circles For Systems ActionGareth ManningMap control, influence, and concern after systems analysis. Use when students need wise agency without being made responsible for everything.
- Ai Claim CheckerGareth ManningAfter any AI-generated explanation, require the learner to identify one place it could be wrong, one thing to check, and one source to consult. Builds epistemic vigilance — treats AI output as a claim to evaluate, not truth to absorb.
- Ai Expertise Interrogation DesignerGareth ManningDesign a Funhouse Mirror activity where students use their own domain expertise to detect AI distortions, omissions, and overconfidence. Use when students know a subject well enough to evaluate AI claims about it.
- Ai Facilitated Collaborative Learning DesignerGareth ManningDesign AI-supported collaborative tasks that structure group interaction and address participation problems. Use when students struggle to collaborate effectively on group tasks.
- Ai Feedback Design PrinciplesGareth ManningAudit and redesign AI-generated feedback for pedagogical quality, timing, and learning impact. Use when building or reviewing automated feedback in digital learning tools.
- Ai Hallucination Fact Check ProtocolGareth ManningDesign a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection. Use when students need to verify AI claims and citations.
- Ai Learning Boundary MapperGareth ManningMap which elements of an assignment benefit from AI assistance vs. which AI use undermines. Use when redesigning tasks for AI-age classrooms or setting defensible AI use policies for specific assignments.
- Ai Output Critical Audit DesignerGareth ManningDesign a structured protocol for auditing AI-generated text against Ennis's six CT standards. Use when students need to critically evaluate AI output in any subject.
- Ai Socratic Dialogue DesignerGareth ManningDesign a multi-round questioning sequence for interrogating AI chatbot answers, tracking how responses shift and distinguishing genuine updates from sycophantic capitulation. Use when teaching students to probe AI critically.
- Aspirational Systems IcebergGareth ManningDesign the deeper patterns, structures, artefacts, and mental models needed to grow a desired event. Use when a class imagines a better future.
- Assessment Design OrchestratorGareth ManningRoutes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks. Use when a teacher needs help choosing how to assess.
- Assessment Validity CheckerGareth ManningAudit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives. Use when reviewing or quality-assuring assessments before deployment.
- Backwards Design Unit PlannerGareth ManningPlan a unit using backwards design from desired outcomes through assessment evidence to learning activities. Use when starting a new unit or redesigning an existing one from standards.
- Biophilic Learning Environment DesignerGareth ManningRedesign a learning space using biophilic design principles to improve focus, calm, and wellbeing. Use when classroom environment contributes to restlessness, poor attention, or stress.
- Central Historical Question EvaluatorGareth ManningEvaluate a teacher-drafted central historical question for its capacity to drive genuine historical inquiry. Use when assessing whether a question will generate real evidence-weighing or produce shallow responses.
- Close Reading Skill BuilderGareth ManningBuild students' capacity to read historical documents closely — attending to word choice, tone, and rhetoric as evidence of perspective. Use when students summarise sources without analysing language.
- Cognitive Tutoring Architecture DesignerGareth ManningMap knowledge components and skill hierarchies for a cognitive tutoring system or adaptive learning platform. Use when designing intelligent tutoring software or skill-based mastery systems.
- Coherent Rubric Logic BuilderGareth ManningBuild a five-level rubric with coherent logic for a learning target within a developmental band. Use for Manning methodology programmes where Competent = success. For general curriculum rubrics, use criterion-referenced-rubric-generator instead.
- Compassionate Systems Awareness OrchestratorGareth ManningOrchestrate compassionate systems tools from issue or aspiration to wise action. Use when a class needs a complete inquiry workflow.
- Competency UnpackerGareth ManningUnpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. Use when interpreting curriculum standards or writing learning objectives.
- Confidence Calibration CheckGareth ManningCapture confidence ratings before and after a learning attempt to identify overconfidence and underconfidence patterns. Use when a student wants to understand how well they actually know something versus how well they think they know it.
- Contextualisation Skill BuilderGareth ManningBuild students' capacity to place historical documents in their temporal and social context. Use when students read sources without considering what was happening at the time, or know the context but don't deploy it.
- Corroboration Skill BuilderGareth ManningBuild students' capacity to compare accounts across multiple historical sources — identifying agreements, contradictions, and gaps. Use when students treat individual documents as complete answers rather than partial perspectives.
- Coverage AuditGareth ManningTakes a curriculum framework and a statutory or accreditation requirement list; produces a coverage table, gap summary, and CSV showing which framework content covers each requirement and where gaps exist.
- Criterion Referenced Rubric GeneratorGareth ManningGenerate a criterion-referenced rubric with descriptive performance levels for a task or objective. Use for marking guides and general curriculum contexts. For Manning programmes where Competent = success, use coherent-rubric-logic-builder instead.
- Critical Thinking Task DesignerGareth ManningDesign a critical thinking task targeting specific skills like evaluating evidence, identifying bias, or analysing arguments. Use when embedding critical analysis into subject lessons.
- Curriculum CrosswalkGareth ManningCompares two or more band-tagged frameworks and produces a framework-neutral topic matrix showing coverage and gaps across all inputs, plus an optional reference-centric PLC crosswalk document when a reference framework is supplied.
- Curriculum Knowledge Architecture DesignerGareth ManningMap the epistemic structure of a subject to determine knowledge types and inform curriculum sequencing. Use when designing courses, restructuring programmes, or analysing knowledge architecture.
- Developmental Band TranslatorGareth ManningTags harness-decomposed curriculum items (KUDs, LTs, criteria) with a school's developmental band metadata while preserving source voice and labels. Supply the band schema; the skill derives mapping rules from it.
- Developmental Progression SynthesisGareth ManningSynthesise completed KUD charts into a developmental progression matrix and per-competency narrative sections. Use when you need a programme-level view of how knowledge, understanding, and performance develop across bands.
- Differentiation AdapterGareth ManningAdapt a classroom task for specific learner needs while preserving the core learning objective intact. Use when differentiating for SEND, EAL, gifted, ADHD, dyslexia, or anxiety.
- Digital Worked Example SequenceGareth ManningCreate an interactive digital worked example sequence with fading for online or blended delivery. Use when building e-learning modules, LMS content, or app-based instruction.
- Dilemma Navigation For Education DesignGareth ManningIdentify and navigate genuine dilemmas in curriculum, school, or community contexts — tensions between competing goods that cannot be solved, only navigated. Produces a structured dilemma map with both poles named and both/and possibilities.
- Disciplinary Ai Literacy Sequence DesignerGareth ManningDesign a sequence where students compare AI's handling of the same question across disciplines, developing a mental model of where AI is reliable vs. distorting based on knowledge type.
- Discipline Specific Critical Thinking Task DesignerGareth ManningDesign discipline-specific critical thinking tasks grounded in knowledge-contingent reasoning rather than generic skills. Use when embedding higher-order thinking into subject content.
- Dispositional Knowledge Assessment DesignerGareth ManningDesign multi-informant assessment approaches for dispositional competencies like curiosity or resilience. Use when assessing character strengths or competencies that written tests cannot capture.
- Document Based Lesson DesignerGareth ManningDesign a complete document-based history lesson using the Reading Like a Historian four-part structure. Use when planning a primary source inquiry lesson or converting a textbook lesson into document-based investigation.
- Ecological Inquiry Anchor DesignerGareth ManningDesign an inquiry sequence anchored in a local ecosystem that embeds science or geography curriculum content. Use when teaching through local living systems like gardens, ponds, or hedgerows.
- Erroneous Example DesignerGareth ManningDesign deliberately flawed examples that develop error-detection skills and deepen understanding. Use when students make characteristic errors and need practice spotting mistakes.
- Experiential Learning Cycle DesignerGareth ManningStructure a direct experience into a full learning cycle with concrete experience, reflection, and conceptual transfer. Use when planning field trips, simulations, or practical tasks.
- Explain First InterrogatorGareth ManningRequire the learner to explain a concept in their own words before the AI evaluates or extends it. Ensures the AI works from the learner's understanding rather than providing an explanation from scratch.
- Fading ManagerGareth ManningTrack performance across sessions and reduce scaffolding as competence grows. Makes fading visible — the learner knows when scaffolds are removed and why. Use for sustained learning engagement where independence is the goal.
- Formative Assessment Loop DesignerGareth ManningDesign an adaptive assessment loop where each student response triggers the next instructional move. Use when building technology-enhanced formative assessment cycles.
- Formative Assessment Technique SelectorGareth ManningSelect the right formative assessment technique for a specific learning moment, purpose, and age group. Use when choosing how to check understanding during, between, or after lessons.
- Gap Analysis From Student WorkGareth ManningAnalyse student work against criteria to identify specific gaps between current performance and learning objectives. Use when reviewing submissions, planning feedback, or diagnosing learning needs.
- Hexagon Complexity MapperGareth ManningMap a complex topic by placing factors on hexagonal tiles where adjacency signals a claimed relationship. Use when students need to surface hidden connections in a system before analysis or action.