historical-source-adapter

historical-source-adapter is a skill for Claude Code from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (5,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool for adapting historical primary sources, meaning original documents or records from the period being studied, for classroom use. It changes their difficulty or length while keeping material needed for source analysis and comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify or shorten a primary source while preserving clues for identifying its origin, reading it closely, and comparing it with other sources.
Why use it?
It helps teachers use valuable historical documents when the original wording or length is too difficult for their students.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the education-agent-skills plugin — 146 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to simplify or shorten a primary source while preserving clues for identifying its origin, reading it closely, and comparing it with other sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/garethmanning/education-agent-skills/historical-source-adapter
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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill historical-source-adapter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install education-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 146 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,000 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 unknown 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 $0.00046 $0.05000
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02500
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01000
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00500

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2f9ae1e36ecf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

historical-source-adapter 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 8d 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/historical-thinking/historical-source-adapter/SKILL.md · 271 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 271 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 2f9ae1e36ecf

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historical-source-adapter is a skill published in the GitHub repository GarethManning/education-agent-skills (759 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 5,000 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.