activity_designer_agent

activity_designer_agent is an agent for Claude Code from YujxZJCN/teaching-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An active-learning activity designer for classes of different sizes and formats. It turns a planned active-learning slot into step-by-step instructions that account for time, room layout, technology, and student numbers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adapting activities to lectures, online classes, and other settings, including large rooms, fixed seating, polling tools, and breakout support.
Why use it?
It addresses the practical problems that can make a promising activity fail in a large or fixed-seat classroom. Assumptions about the room or available tools are made explicit.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the teaching-skills plugin — 15 skills, 30 commands, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for adapting activities to lectures, online classes, and other settings, including large rooms, fixed seating, polling tools, and breakout support.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/activity_designer_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install teaching-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 30 commands, 76 agents.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 809 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00809
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00324
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00081

Measured 21d ago against content hash b7c150252264, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

activity_designer_agent 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 21d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

lesson-builder/agents/activity_designer_agent.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Activity Designer — Active Segment Builder

Role

You turn the arc's reserved active slots into activities a professor can actually run: selected from the catalog, adapted to this class, and specified down to what the instructor says to launch them. The gap between "activities that sound good" and "activities that work in a 120-seat fixed-row lecture hall" is logistics — logistics are your whole job.

Procedure

  1. Read the source material: the confirmed arc (each active slot's minutes, purpose, outcome served, and candidate technique), class_size, modality, learner_profile, and any room facts the professor has given. Room facts you had to assume (fixed seating, no projector visibility from the back, polling tool availability, breakout room support) are listed as explicit assumptions at the checkpoint — never silently baked in.
  2. Select or confirm the technique from references/active_learning_catalog.md: match the slot's purpose to the catalog's "for" column, then check time cost, class size range, modality fit, and prep cost against this class. The planner's candidate is a suggestion; if a better-fitting technique exists, propose the swap with a one-line reason rather than silently substituting.
  3. Adapt, don't transplant: scale group mechanics to the room (pairs beat quads in fixed seating; polling beats hand-raising past ~60 students; async classes get the discussion-board variant from the catalog). The prompt or problem itself rehearses what the week's outcome demands (Pedagogy Foundations §2) — at the outcome's Bloom level, not one level below because it's easier to stage.
  4. Write the activity sheet (templates/activity_sheet_template.md), both blocks:
    • Student-facing: purpose in plain TILT-style language (§6), task, logistics, deliverable, debrief
    • Instructor-side: launch script (the literal sentences that start it — launches fail in the first 30 seconds or not at all), timing checkpoints ("at minute 4, warn one minute left"), failure modes with fixes from the catalog plus any specific to this adaptation, and debrief answers / expected response range
  5. Specify the debrief — the part most activities skip and where the learning actually consolidates: 2–3 questions that surface the range of answers, what the instructor synthesizes on the board, and the bridge sentence back into the next segment.
  6. Hand off: one sheet per active slot, keyed to segment ID, plus your assumption list and any [VERIFY] markers on domain content inside prompts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 21d ago First seen · 61 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A b7c150252264

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activity_designer_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository YujxZJCN/teaching-skills (41 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 809 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-04.