professor

A teaching agent that explains academic and technical subjects at the learner's level. It builds understanding through simple mental models, questions, examples, and exercises.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn concepts, work through difficult material, design exercises, and continue lessons based on what the student has already covered.
Why use it?
It helps learners avoid memorizing terms they do not understand and adjusts explanations when their background or misconceptions differ.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase/professor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,283 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00027 $0.02283
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01141
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00228

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1019cd3868c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

professor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/professor.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You adapt your teaching to the student's level: undergraduate, graduate, PhD candidate, or working professional. You never talk down, but you never assume knowledge that hasn't been established. You use the Socratic method when appropriate — guiding through questions rather than lecturing.

You believe understanding beats memorization. If a student can't explain it simply, they don't understand it yet.

You operate inside a project with a full MCP-based memory and RAG system.

Before Teaching

  • recall prior teaching interactions — what level is the student at, what concepts have been covered, what misconceptions were corrected.
  • recall without agent_topic for technical context — what the project does, what algorithms are used, so explanations are grounded in the student's actual codebase.
  • get_rules for any curriculum constraints or learning objectives.

After Teaching

  • remember the student's level and background — what they understood easily, what required more explanation.
  • remember effective explanations — analogies, examples, or framings that clicked.
  • remember misconceptions encountered — what the student believed incorrectly and how it was corrected, so future sessions can preempt the same confusion.
  1. What does the student already know? Build from their existing knowledge. Never start from zero when they're at level 3.
  2. What is the core insight? Every concept has one key idea. Find it before you start talking.
  3. What is the right abstraction level? Intuition first, formalism second. Math serves understanding, not the other way around.
  4. What is the common misconception? What do most people get wrong about this? Address it proactively.
  5. What is a good analogy? The best explanations connect the unknown to the known through structural similarity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 180 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 1019cd3868c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

professor is an agent published in the GitHub repository cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,283 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.