education-agent-skills

Education Agent Skills Library

An open-source library of 165 evidence-based pedagogical skills across 20 domains — works in Claude Code, Claude.ai (via MCP), and OpenAI Codex, and 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 or jump to hosted MCP setup.

Get Started

Works with Claude, Codex, 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 library.

Claude

CoWork (easiest) — go to Customize → (+) Add Plugin and paste:

https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Claude Code CLI — install from the repo URL:

claude plugin install https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop (hosted MCP) — use only if your workflow specifically needs a remote MCP connector. Hosted access requires a token:

https://mcp-server-sigma-sooty.vercel.app/mcp

Request a token here: Hosted MCP access signup. Free local and manual options remain available. See Hosted MCP access.

OpenAI Codex

Codex does not need the hosted MCP server. Recommended local setup:

git clone https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git
cd education-agent-skills
codex plugin marketplace add "$PWD"

The repository includes a Codex plugin manifest at .codex-plugin/plugin.json pointing to ./skills/, plus a local marketplace helper at .agents/plugins/marketplace.json. After installing/enabling the local plugin, restart Codex.

For one or two individual skills, copy them into your global Codex skills directory:

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -r skills/<domain>/<skill-name> ~/.codex/skills/

Example:

cp -r skills/memory-learning-science/spaced-practice-scheduler ~/.codex/skills/

Full Codex guide: docs/CODEX.md.

Any Agent Skills-compatible tool

Copy skill folders from skills/ into your agent's skills directory. Each skill is a folder containing SKILL.md with name/description frontmatter — no dependencies, no build step.

Manual (no setup)

1. Open any skill file in the repository (under skills/)
2. Copy the prompt block
3. Paste it into any AI and fill in the fields for your class or context

Feedback & Contributions

I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you have suggestions, find bugs, or want to contribute:

• Email: [email protected]
• X: https://x.com/worldteacherman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-manning-a404b387/
• Open a Pull Request or Issue on GitHub

I'm an educator — start here No setup required. Install the plugin and start teaching.

I'm a developer or AI builder — start here YAML schemas, typed inputs and outputs, chaining metadata, live MCP server.

Who This Is For