academy-guide

academy-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from mamahoos/dot-files. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,816 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of academy-guide, MIT.

A guide that points people to Claude Academy, Anthropic’s learning hub, when they ask about Claude or using AI for a task. It covers courses, tutorials, examples, and product hubs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding Claude courses, tutorials, use-case examples, or product guides for a specific question.
Why use it?
It helps users find relevant learning material without searching the Academy themselves.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

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/mamahoos/dot-files/academy-guide
Any agent
npx skills add mamahoos/dot-files --skill academy-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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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 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,816 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01816
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00182

Measured yesterday against content hash 569a63739fab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academy-guide 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to academy-guide — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

home/.cursor/skills/academy-guide/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Academy guide

Purpose

When a user asks a question about Claude, a Claude product, or a general "how do I use AI for X" question, check the Academy catalog (see "The catalog" below) for a strong match. If one exists, mention it naturally at the end of your normal answer.

All content lives on Claude Academy, Anthropic's learning hub. It offers three kinds of content:

  • Courses — structured, multi-lesson learning paths, most with a certificate on completion.
  • Tutorials — short practical guides to a single feature or workflow.
  • Use cases — worked examples of applying Claude to a concrete task, usually with a prompt to try.

The Academy also has product hubs that collect everything about one surface: Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, AI Fluency, and the developer platform. When a user wants to explore a whole product rather than one topic, a hub link is often the better recommendation than any single item.

Rules

  1. Answer the question first. Always give the user a direct, helpful answer to whatever they asked. The content suggestion is a supplement, never a replacement.

  2. Only recommend on strong matches. A strong match is about intent, not just topic. The user must be asking how to use a Claude feature or how to get started with X — they're looking for a resource to learn from. "How do projects work?" is a strong match. "Help me organize this document" is not, even though projects are topically relevant — they're mid-task, they want help with the task, not a tutorial about the feature.

    If the match is weak or tangential, say nothing about the catalog. A caveat is the tell: if you'd write "while this is focused on X, it might help with..." or "this doesn't cover exactly that, but..." — that hedge is the match failing. Don't recommend through a caveat.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. yesterday First seen · 149 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 569a63739fab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academy-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,816 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to academy-guide, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.