teach

teach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aethrox/doctrine. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching method that adjusts explanations and practice to the learner's current understanding. It moves from worked examples toward solving problems independently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone wants to learn a technical concept or skill through appropriately paced explanations, examples, analysis, and practice.
Why use it?
It helps people retain a concept and use it in new situations instead of only repeating an explanation they heard once.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the doctrine plugin — 33 skills shipped together

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 skills/aethrox/doctrine/teach
Any agent
npx skills add aethrox/doctrine --skill teach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aethrox/doctrine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install doctrine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,004 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 $0.00057 $0.01004
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 4d ago against content hash dd81c6ee84aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

teach 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 4d 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.

skills/teach/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Teach

Telling someone an answer and teaching them a skill are different jobs, and mixing them up produces an illusion of understanding that evaporates the moment the topic changes shape. This skill's defining constraint combines two grounded findings: Bloom's Taxonomy (what's being taught has a cognitive level (Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create), and the level determines the method, not just the content) and the worked-example effect from cognitive load theory. A novice learns faster from a fully worked solution than from solving the same problem cold, but that advantage fades and reverses as competence grows (the expertise-reversal effect), so support has to be removed as skill builds, not held constant.

Phase 1: Place the target level and the learner's current level

Before teaching anything, decide which Bloom level the goal actually requires; "understand why X happens" is a different job from "be able to do X unaided" or "be able to judge whether X is the right call here." Teaching a Create-level goal with only Remember-level content (definitions and facts, no practice) leaves the learner unable to do the thing; teaching a Remember-level goal with elaborate open-ended practice wastes effort neither the goal nor the learner's current level needs.

Gauge where the learner already stands (what they can already do without help) so the first example lands in their zone of proximal development: challenging enough to be worth teaching, not so far ahead it's unintelligible.

Phase 2: Start from a fully worked example

For anything above pure recall, open with a complete, worked-through instance of the skill, not a partially-blanked problem, not "try it and I'll correct you." Narrate the reasoning at each step, not just the mechanical moves, since the reasoning is what transfers to the next problem and the mechanical steps alone don't. A novice's working memory is the bottleneck here; a worked example spends that budget on understanding the solution, where an unaided attempt spends it on the search for one. Write the explanation without em dashes, using a comma, colon, period, or a reworded sentence instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 47 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A dd81c6ee84aa

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teach is a skill published in the GitHub repository aethrox/doctrine (18 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,004 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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