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.
56 education skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
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Anthropic
Skills
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…
192k3.8MScore 89 - 3#3
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHub
Add Educational Comments
Add educational comments to the file specified, or prompt asking for file to comment if one is not provided.
41k2.4MScore 83 - 4#4
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
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…
57k328kScore 82 - 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…
27k614kScore 82 - 6#6
OpenAI
Skills
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…
29k225kScore 80 - 7#7
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
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…
14k103kScore 73 - 8#8
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
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…
14k103kScore 73 - 9#9
virgiliojr94
Book To Skill
Converts books and documents (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, plain text, RTF, MOBI/AZW with Calibre) into structured agent skills, extracting frameworks, mental models, principles…
38k9.3kScore 72 - 10#10
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Face
Transformers Js
Use Transformers.js to run state-of-the-art machine learning models directly in JavaScript/TypeScript. Supports NLP (text classification, translation, summarization), computer vision (image…
11k42kScore 72
Matt Pocock 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.
All 56 education skills.
Matt Pocockteach
Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicacademy-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…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHubadd-educational-comments
Add educational comments to the file specified, or prompt asking for file to comment if one is not provided.
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseaeon
This skill should be used for time series machine learning tasks including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, and similarity search. Use…
JimLiubaoyu-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…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIfigma-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…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchfine-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…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchverl-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…
virgiliojr94book-to-skill
Converts books and documents (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, plain text, RTF, MOBI/AZW with Calibre) into structured agent skills, extracting frameworks, mental models, principles…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facetransformers-js
Use Transformers.js to run state-of-the-art machine learning models directly in JavaScript/TypeScript. Supports NLP (text classification, translation, summarization), computer vision (image…
kostja94
Marketing Skills
kostja94education-program
When the user wants to plan, implement, or optimize student and education discount programs. Also use when the user mentions "student discount," "education discount," "student plan," "for…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningcurriculum-knowledge-architecture-designer
Map the epistemic structure of a subject to determine knowledge types and inform curriculum sequencing. Use when designing courses, restructuring programmes, or analysing knowledge…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningkud-knowledge-type-mapper
Classify curriculum content into Know, Understand, and Do categories to align teaching and assessment approaches. Use when planning units, writing objectives, or selecting assessment…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningscope-and-sequence-designer
Design a scope and sequence showing vertical and horizontal curriculum coherence across a programme or year. Use when building new programmes, restructuring subjects, or ensuring…
bitjaruss-learn
Capture a human-approved UI design lesson as a privacy-minimized local StyleSeed candidate, review it, and prepare an opt-in share package without transmitting project code, prompts…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aicalifornia-bar-complete
Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aicase-briefer
Produces detailed law-school case briefs of United States judicial opinions in a fixed nine-section structure: memory jogger, facts, procedural history, judicial votes, holding…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aicontinuous-improvement-engine-scott-margetts
Capture, structure, and recycle lessons from active and closed legal matters. Three modes: in-flight capture (triggered by scope changes, risk events, status updates — highest value)…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitorhow-to-tutorial-writer
Write how-to guides and tutorials that naturally integrate affiliate product recommendations. Triggers on: "write a how-to guide", "tutorial for [task]", "step by step guide to [goal]"…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningacademic-language-sentence-frame-generator
Generate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production across proficiency levels. Use when EAL students need structured language support for classroom…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningadaptive-hint-sequence-designer
Generate a cascading hint sequence for a problem type, revealing progressively without giving answers. Use when designing tutoring dialogues or scaffolded worksheets.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-expertise-interrogation-designer
Design 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…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-facilitated-collaborative-learning-designer
Design AI-supported collaborative tasks that structure group interaction and address participation problems. Use when students struggle to collaborate effectively on group tasks.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-feedback-design-principles
Audit and redesign AI-generated feedback for pedagogical quality, timing, and learning impact. Use when building or reviewing automated feedback in digital learning tools.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol
Design 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.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-learning-boundary-mapper
Map 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…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-output-critical-audit-designer
Design 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.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-socratic-dialogue-designer
Design a multi-round questioning sequence for interrogating AI chatbot answers, tracking how responses shift and distinguishing genuine updates from sycophantic capitulation. Use when…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningassessment-validity-checker
Audit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives. Use when reviewing or quality-assuring assessments before deployment.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningbackwards-design-unit-planner
Plan 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.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningcognitive-tutoring-architecture-designer
Map 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.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningcompetency-unpacker
Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. Use when interpreting curriculum standards or writing learning objectives.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningcoverage-audit
Takes 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…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningcriterion-referenced-rubric-generator
Generate 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…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningcurriculum-crosswalk
Compares 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…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningdevelopmental-band-translator
Tags 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…
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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