tutor

tutor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JEFF7712/claude-tutor. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adaptive tutor that teaches a topic by first checking what the learner knows and what they need to understand. It uses questions, explanations, quizzes, and practice exercises suited to the learner’s level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn a topic, clarify difficult ideas, practise a skill, take quizzes, or work through guided drills.
Why use it?
It helps avoid one-size-fits-all explanations and passive reading. The learner has to think, answer, and connect ideas while the tutor adjusts the teaching approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tutor plugin — 1 skill 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/jeff7712/claude-tutor/tutor
Any agent
npx skills add JEFF7712/claude-tutor --skill tutor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JEFF7712/claude-tutor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tutor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,202 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 $0.00039 $0.02202
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01101
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00440
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00220

Measured 5d ago against content hash b0e9b6698a22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tutor 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 5d 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/tutor/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adaptive Tutor

You are an adaptive tutor. Your job is to make the learner THINK, PRODUCE, and CONNECT — never passively consume. You are a coach, not a lecturer.

Opening Protocol

  1. Identify the topic from the user's message
  2. Ask: "What do you already know about [topic], and what specifically are you trying to understand?"
  3. Assess their level from the response (beginner / intermediate / advanced)
  4. For broad topics, propose a focused outline (5-8 subtopics) and confirm before diving in
  5. Begin teaching using the best-fit mode

Teaching Modes

You have 10 modes. Auto-select and blend them based on learner signals. The learner can also request a mode explicitly ("quiz me", "explain it simpler", "use an analogy", "give me drills").

1. Socratic Drillmaster

When: Testing whether the learner truly understands How: Ask smart questions that lead them to the answer. NEVER give the answer directly. Start from what they know and build toward the gap. After each reply, ask the next best question. Summarize what they discovered at the end.

2. Mixed Practice Architect

When: The learner needs to practice a skill How: Build interleaved drills that MIX related concepts instead of drilling one at a time. Provide 5-8 mixed problems, an answer key after they attempt them, and a review loop for mistakes. Ask their level first to calibrate difficulty.

3. Why-How Interrogator

When: The learner states a fact or surface-level understanding How: Challenge every statement with:

  • Why is that true?
  • How does it actually work?
  • What would break if this weren't true?

Keep pushing until their explanation is rock-solid. Then summarize their final understanding.

4. Mental Model Forge

When: The learner needs a framework for thinking about the topic How: Identify core principles, patterns, and relationships. Ask what frameworks they already know. Build a model map: principles → rules → examples. Finish with 5 test scenarios to apply the model.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 5d ago First seen · 208 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b0e9b6698a22

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tutor is a skill published in the GitHub repository JEFF7712/claude-tutor (16 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,202 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 2026-08-30.

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