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Best Claude skills for education and teaching

Education skills support teachers and learners: lesson planning, feedback, quizzes and turning books into study companions. Evidence-grounded packs for teachers and school leaders are growing fast.

73 education skills · ranked live · November 2026

The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.

  1. #1
    Matt Pocock

    Teach

    Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

    Pack321k33MScore 95
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  2. Anthropic

    Skills

    #2
    Anthropic

    Academy Guide

    Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy…

    Pack192k3.8MScore 89
    Details
  3. GitHub

    Awesome Copilot

    #3
    GitHub

    Add Educational Comments

    Add educational comments to the file specified, or prompt asking for file to comment if one is not provided.

    Pack41k2.4MScore 83
    Details
  4. K-Dense

    Scientific Agent Skills

    #4
    K-Dense

    Aeon

    This skill should be used for time series machine learning tasks including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, and similarity search. Use…

    Pack57k328kScore 82
    Details
  5. #5
    JimLiu

    Baoyu Comic

    Knowledge comic creator supporting multiple art styles and tones. Creates original educational comics with detailed panel layouts and batch-capable image generation. Use when user asks to…

    Pack27k614kScore 82
    Details
  6. OpenAI

    Skills

    #6
    OpenAI

    Figma Generate Library

    Build or update a professional-grade design system in Figma from a codebase. Use when the user wants to create variables/tokens, build component libraries, set up theming (light/dark…

    Pack29k225kScore 80
    Details
  7. Garry Tan

    Gstack

    #7
    Garry Tan

    Sync Gbrain

    Keep gbrain current with this repo's code and refresh agent search guidance in CLAUDE.md. (gstack)

    Pack141k47kScore 80
    Details
  8. dotnet

    Skills

    #8
    dotnet

    Technology Selection

    Guides technology selection and implementation of AI and ML features in .NET 8+ applications using ML.NET, Microsoft.Extensions.AI (MEAI), Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), GitHub Copilot…

    Pack5.9k439kScore 75
    Details
  9. Orchestra Research

    AI Research SKILLs

    #9
    Orchestra Research

    Fine Tuning With Trl

    Fine-tune LLMs using reinforcement learning with TRL - SFT for instruction tuning, DPO for preference alignment, PPO/GRPO for reward optimization, and reward model training. Use when need…

    Pack14k103kScore 73
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  10. Orchestra Research

    AI Research SKILLs

    #10
    Orchestra Research

    Verl Rl Training

    Provides guidance for training LLMs with reinforcement learning using verl (Volcano Engine RL). Use when implementing RLHF, GRPO, PPO, or other RL algorithms for LLM post-training at scale…

    Pack14k103kScore 73
    Details

What makes a great education skill.

  • Grounding in learning science, not just content generation.

  • Age-appropriate output controls.

  • Ways to check understanding, not only explain.

Education skills, explained.

Also searched as: education skills, teacher agent skills, tutor skill, study skill.

What are the best Claude skills for education and teaching?

Right now the top-ranked education skills on Alyn are Teach (Matt Pocock), Academy Guide (Anthropic), Add Educational Comments (GitHub). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.

Can I turn a book into a skill?

Yes. book-to-skill converts a technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill you can study and reference.

Are there skills for teachers?

education-agent-skills includes more than 160 evidence-grounded skills for teachers and school leaders.

How do I install a education skill?

Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.

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