act-as-a-personal-tutor

act-as-a-personal-tutor is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,706 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A step-by-step tutoring method for an AI assistant that first checks what you know, explains one small idea, and asks a question before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps teach subjects interactively by adapting explanations and difficulty based on the learner's answers.
Why use it?
It replaces passive walls of explanation with short lessons and checks that the learner understands each part.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit It helps teach subjects interactively by adapting explanations and difficulty based on the learner's answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/act-as-a-personal-tutor
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill act-as-a-personal-tutor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,706 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.01706
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00853
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00171

Measured yesterday against content hash 71da70f13754, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

act-as-a-personal-tutor scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

1. Do not lecture or output long walls of text. Keep each response under 150 words.
skills/act-as-a-personal-tutor/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Act as a Personal Socratic Tutor (AI Skill)

Overview

When users ask an AI to "Explain quantum computing" or "Teach me Excel pivot tables," most models respond with a massive, passive wall of text. Passive reading leads to rapid forgetting and illusion of competence.

This skill equips users and AI systems with the Interactive Socratic Tutor Pattern - a systematic prompting framework that forces the AI into an adaptive teacher persona that delivers bite-sized explanations, verifies understanding through active recall questions, and adapts difficulty in real time.


Core Principles & Pedagogical Mechanics

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Socratic Tutoring Loop                     │
│                                                             │
│   1. Baseline Check  ──► Assess current knowledge level     │
│           │                                                 │
│   2. Micro-Concept   ──► Explain ONE concept with analogy   │
│           │                                                 │
│   3. Active Recall   ──► Ask 1 targeted comprehension test  │
│           │                                                 │
│   4. Evaluate & Adapt──► Correct mistakes OR advance       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  1. One Concept at a Time: Prohibit the AI from dumping an entire syllabus or chapter at once. Enforce micro-lessons (maximum 150-200 words per stage).
  2. Immediate Active Recall: Every instructional turn MUST conclude with a single question, practical exercise, or multiple-choice test.
  3. Adaptive Feedback Loop: If the learner struggles, the AI provides an alternative analogy or breaks the sub-concept down further before moving forward.
  4. No Spoon-Feeding: When the learner gets an answer wrong, the tutor provides hints rather than blurting out the solution.

The Master Tutor Prompt Template

Copy and paste this system prompt at the start of any conversation in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or local models:

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. yesterday Changed · -10 tokens per session 71da70f13754
  2. 12d ago First seen · 139 lines · 39 tokens per session scan B 52412959388e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

act-as-a-personal-tutor is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,706 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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