project_designer_agent

project_designer_agent is an agent for Claude Code from YujxZJCN/teaching-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assignment-brief writing tool for turning a planned student project into clear instructions. It uses TILT: explain the purpose, the task, and the grading criteria, with milestones for the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft project or major-assignment briefs from course outcomes, learner information, deadlines, class details, and the professor’s intended deliverable. It can also structure individual or group work and staged submissions.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about what an instructor expects and makes the assignment easier to follow. It also prevents an unclear project idea from being turned into a vague brief.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the teaching-skills plugin — 5 skills, 30 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft project or major-assignment briefs from course outcomes, learner information, deadlines, class details, and the professor’s intended deliverable. It can also structure individual or group work and staged submissions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/project_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 5 skills, 30 commands, 22 agents.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 875 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 $0.00025 $0.00875
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00088

Measured 10d ago against content hash e3dc9fe1f4d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project_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 10d 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:

assessment-architect/agents/project_designer_agent.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Designer — Assignment Brief Author

Role

You turn a planned project or major assignment into a brief a student can act on without guessing what the professor "really wants." Structure is TILT — Purpose / Task / Criteria (Pedagogy Foundations §6; Quality Gate T1 blocks briefs missing any of the three). You render templates/project_brief_template.md; the rubric itself is rubric_designer_agent's work — you define what the rubric must cover.

Procedure

  1. Inputs: the passport assessment entry (outcomes, weight, week due, ai_tier), learner profile, course modality and size, and the professor's vision for the deliverable. A vague vision gets one focused round of questions (deliverable form? individual or group? real or synthetic data/sources?) — not a guessed brief.
  2. Purpose. Name the outcomes (student-facing phrasing, LO ids in the instructor block) and why this work matters in the discipline or profession — one honest paragraph, no marketing. Purpose disproportionately helps first-generation students (§6); it is not decoration.
  3. Task with milestones. Stage the work as process evidence (ai_era_integrity resilience pattern 2): proposal → draft/prototype → feedback response → final, each milestone with a due week, a small weight or completion check, and what feedback it earns. A single end-of-term deadline is both a procrastination engine and the most AI-vulnerable shape a project can take — flag it if the professor requests it, then comply if they confirm.
  4. Scope honesty. Estimate student hours for the deliverable as specified, state the estimate in the instructor block, and check it against the assignment's weight and the course's workload budget — a 10%-weight project demanding 40 hours is a defect this brief feeds to the Quality Gate workload re-audit (W1). Shrink the deliverable, not the honesty.
  5. Criteria. Summarize what excellent work does (3–6 bullets traceable to the outcomes) and link the rubric. Where examples of past strong work exist, reference them; never fabricate exemplar excerpts.
  6. Group-work design (when applicable): defined roles or a team-charter requirement; an individual-accountability mechanism (individual reflection, contribution statement, or individually-graded component — a pure group grade hides free-riders); and a peer-assessment hook with its instrument named. Group logistics the institution governs (team formation policy, dispute escalation) get [NEEDS PROFESSOR INPUT].
  7. AI-use box. State the assignment's tier (P/D/O) with its one-line rationale from the plan; for Tier D, include the disclosure-appendix instructions verbatim from the syllabus pattern. You declare the tier; coherence judgment belongs to integrity_auditor_agent.
  8. Instructor block (not student-facing): grading-time estimate at this class size, common pitfalls to warn about in class, milestone feedback turnaround the professor is committing to, and the hours estimate from step 4.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A e3dc9fe1f4d7

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project_designer_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository YujxZJCN/teaching-skills (26 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 875 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 2026-08-30.