GarethManning/education-agent-skills

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Summary

An open-source library of evidence-based Claude skills for educators, designed for teacher use and agent orchestration. It provides ready-to-use prompts and workflows grounded in learning science to support adaptive learning, curriculum design, and competency-based education.

Key features

• Evidence-based prompts aligned with learning science
• Supports adaptive learning and competency-based education
• Designed for both direct teacher use and agent orchestration
• Covers curriculum design, retrieval practice, and project-based learning
• Open-source and extensible for custom educational workflows

Use cases

• Teachers creating adaptive lesson plans with AI assistance
• Designing competency-based assessments and rubrics
• Implementing retrieval practice activities in the classroom
• Orchestrating multi-step agent workflows for personalized tutoring
• Developing open educational resources with evidence-based pedagogy

README excerpt

# Education Agent Skills Library [](https://agentskills.io) [](https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills) [](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) [](https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/commits/main) An open-source library of 165 evidence-based pedagogical skills across 20 domains — works in Claude Code, Claude.ai (via MCP), OpenAI Codex, and Hermes Agent, and is engineered for AI agent orchestration. Domains 1–19 are teacher and designer-facing. Domain 20 is the first student-facing domain: live AI interaction patterns that shape how AI responds to learners during study sessions. > [!IMPORTANT] > **Hosted MCP access now requires an auth token.** > > The library is still free and open source, and local/plugin/manual use remains the recommended free path. The hosted MCP server is still available for people who specifically need a remote MCP endpoint, but anonymous access is now blocked so the service stays sustainable. > > **Need hosted MCP?** [Request an access token](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdW1EdcmtjSPPq68Hx-bdth5hO2KNyjhAwEV9Ld0EwWL1Gr8Q/viewform) or [jump to hosted MCP setup](#mcp-server). --- ## Get Started Works with Claude, Codex, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports the Agent Skills standard. For sustainable free use, install or copy the skills locally from GitHub where possible. The hosted MCP server is a convenience endpoint for remote clients, not a requirement for using the librar

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