course-outline-design

course-outline-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kevintsai1202/teaching-site-skills. It costs 144 tokens per session (2,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool for creating the structure of a course, workshop, or training program before writing its lessons. It defines the schedule, topics, units, learning goals, and shared scenario.

In plain words
What is it for?
Organising a new course, arranging topics across days, setting learning objectives, and revising an existing syllabus.
Why use it?
Starting with scattered notes makes it hard to see what learners should study and when. An outline provides a stable structure for writing content later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Schema authority**: all primitive field names (unit / concept / prompt / task / material / quiz / faq / illustration) come from [`_shared/domain-primitives.md.

Good fit Organising a new course, arranging topics across days, setting learning objectives, and revising an existing syllabus.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kevintsai1202/teaching-site-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kevintsai1202/teaching-site-skills/course-outline-design

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,424 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 $0.00144 $0.02424
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01212
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00242

Measured 11d ago against content hash 774c5128cab7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

course-outline-design 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 11d 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.

course-outline-design/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Course Outline Design

Schema authority: all primitive field names (unit / concept / prompt / task / material / quiz / faq / illustration) come from _shared/domain-primitives.md. When this skill mentions a field, that file is the source of truth.

Filename convention (English-first): all generated files and directories use English names. The mapping from legacy Chinese names is in _shared/domain-primitives.md §0.

This skill produces the structural skeleton of a course: how many days, what each day's theme is, what each unit teaches, what the shared running scenario is, and what the meta (hours, classroom, schedule) looks like. It does not write lecture content — that's course-content-authoring's job.

When to Invoke

  • User says "I want to run a workshop on X" but no structure exists yet.
  • User has scattered notes and wants to organise them into a course.
  • User wants to revise an existing outline (add/remove a unit, change day allocation).

Deliverables

A standard outline produces these files. Adapt paths to the user's project, but keep the role of each file distinct — that separation is what enables downstream sub-skills to work.

course-package/   (or your preferred root)
├── overview.md         ← top-level meta + day list + shared scenario summary
├── shared-scenario.md     ← the persistent scenario / fictitious company / characters used across days
├── supporting-docs.md     ← optional: FAQ, pre-reading, environment setup
└── day{n}/
    └── outline.md     ← per-day outline: theme, units, learning goals, hours

The filenames here are Chinese because that's the project convention this skill emerged from. Use whatever language fits the project, but keep the file roles separate. Merging overview.md into each Day's outline is a common mistake — it makes meta updates require N edits.

The Five Decisions You Must Pin Down

Before drafting any file, get these answered (ask the user, one at a time if needed):

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 11d ago First seen · 153 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 774c5128cab7

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course-outline-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository kevintsai1202/teaching-site-skills (49 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 2,424 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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