Teaching Skills for Claude Code
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A comprehensive suite of Claude Code skills for university professors, covering the full
teaching lifecycle: design → build → assess → deliver → reflect → improve.
15 skills · 84 modes · 71-agent ensemble · 2 quality gates · 1 Course Passport
AI is your teaching assistant, not your replacement. This suite won't teach for
you. It handles the structure and the grunt work — drafting outcomes, building
blueprints before exams, auditing alignment, formatting syllabi, coding evaluation
comments — so you can focus on what actually requires you: knowing your discipline,
knowing your students, and deciding what matters. Every consequential decision passes
through a checkpoint where you decide.
Architecturally inspired by Academic Research Skills
(Cheng-I Wu) — the research-side sibling of this suite. If you also write papers, the
two compose: teaching-reflector's SoTL mode hands off to ARS's deep-research and
academic-paper skills.
Install
Plugin (recommended):
/plugin marketplace add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills
/plugin install teaching-skills
Manual: clone this repo and symlink the skill directories into
~/.claude/skills/ (or the project's .claude/skills/).
Verify: run /ts-status in a directory with a course_passport.yaml, or just say
"Design a new course on X for 60 second-year students."
The skills
| Skill | Stage | What it does |
|---|
| course-designer | 1 DESIGN | Backward design: Bloom-tagged outcomes → assessment plan → semester arc → syllabus. Socratic mode for blank-page starts. |
| lesson-builder | 2 BUILD | Lesson plans, lecture notes, slide outlines, active-learning activities, cases, discussion guides, flipped formats. |
| assessment-architect | 3 ASSESS | Blueprint-first exams and quizzes, rubrics, TILT project briefs, AI-resilience integrity audits, post-exam item analysis. |
| student-mentor | 4 DELIVER | Feedback writing, struggling-student intervention plans, recommendation letters, difficult emails, advising and mentoring plans. |
| submission-auditor | 4 DELIVER | Spec-driven submission checking: compile your template/requirements into a checkable spec, audit submissions (single or batch) with located evidence, per-student feedback reports + class pattern report. |
| teaching-reflector | 5 REFLECT | Bias-honest evaluation analysis, mid-course feedback, peer observation, teaching portfolio and statement, SoTL design. |
| teaching-pipeline | orchestrator | Runs the whole lifecycle over the Course Passport, with two non-skippable gates and a weekly delivery loop. |
Extension skills — production, operations, and compliance layers; each works
standalone and the pipeline dispatches them on demand:
| Skill | Stage | What it does |
|---|
| deck-studio | 2 | Renders actual slide decks (Marp/Pandoc/Beamer/python-pptx), course-wide themes, code-generated figures, handouts, posters. Accessibility enforced, never fakes a render. |
| lab-forge | 2 | Executable STEM artifacts: lab packages, per-student synthetic datasets with recoverable ground truth, starter code, autograders, executed reference solutions. |
| media-scripter | 2 | Recorded-media scripting: 6–9 min mini-lecture scripts, storyboards, episode series, caption/transcript cleanup, audio adaptations. |
| course-publisher | 4 | Student-facing comms from the passport: announcements, weekly emails, static course site, LMS packaging, living FAQ. Drafts only — facts traced, never invented. |
| ta-coordinator | 4 | Teaching-team operations: TA handbooks, grading calibration sessions, hours-balanced allocation, meeting agendas, cross-TA consistency checks (no league tables). |
| accreditation-mapper | 1 | Outcomes → program outcomes → standards matrices with evidence status, evidence packages, gap analysis, honesty-capped self-study drafts. |
| bilingual-courseware | support | Terminology-disciplined bilingual materials: professor-confirmed glossary, glossary-bound translation, paired-version sync, consistency audits. |
| cohort-analyst | support | Learner analysis (学情分析): pre-lesson diagnostics, cohort readiness profiles from ability lists/questionnaires, lesson calibration, evidence-based grouping. Aggregates only — individual students route to student-mentor. |
The pipeline
