What is dt-curriculum?

A teaching curriculum for Design Thinking, a problem-solving approach that moves from understanding a problem to creating and implementing solutions. It covers nine progressive methods and uses a shared manufacturing example for practice.

Use it to teach or study Design Thinking through modules on scoping, research, synthesis, brainstorming, concepts, and other methods across the problem, solution, and implementation stages.

It gives learners a structured path through the full process instead of isolated exercises. The shared scenario helps connect lessons as skills build.

dt-curriculum — Skill for Claude Code by microsoft/hve-core

About the project

HVE Core is a collection of agents, prompts, coding instructions, and skills for building repeatable software-development workflows with GitHub Copilot. It is intended for individuals and teams that want structured AI-assisted research, planning, implementation, and review, while the catalogue entries provide many of its reusable workflow components.

microsoft/hve-core · 1,606 stars · on GitHub

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 microsoft/hve-core --skill dt-curriculum

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 665 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.00665
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00266
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00133
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00067

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0fb921dd4d28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dt-curriculum 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 2mo 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.

.github/skills/design-thinking/dt-curriculum/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DT Curriculum — Skill Entry

This SKILL.md is the entrypoint for the Design Thinking learning curriculum.

The dt-learning-tutor agent loads this skill to teach Design Thinking concepts, run comprehension checks, and assign practice exercises. The curriculum spans nine progressive modules — one per Design Thinking method — and a shared manufacturing reference scenario that threads through every module so learners build on consistent context as they advance from the Problem Space to the Implementation Space.

Curriculum references

Load the module that matches the method the learner is studying. Load the manufacturing scenario alongside any module that uses scenario-based checks or exercises.

Reference	When to load
curriculum-01-scoping.md	Teaching Method 1: Scope Conversations (Problem Space).
curriculum-02-research.md	Teaching Method 2: Design Research (Problem Space).
curriculum-03-synthesis.md	Teaching Method 3: Synthesis (Problem Space).
curriculum-04-brainstorming.md	Teaching Method 4: Brainstorming (Solution Space).
curriculum-05-concepts.md	Teaching Method 5: User Concepts (Solution Space).
curriculum-06-prototypes.md	Teaching Method 6: Low-Fidelity Prototypes (Solution Space).
curriculum-07-testing.md	Teaching Method 7: High-Fidelity Prototypes (Implementation Space).
curriculum-08-iteration.md	Teaching Method 8: User Testing (Implementation Space).
curriculum-09-handoff.md	Teaching Method 9: Iteration at Scale (Implementation Space).
curriculum-scenario-manufacturing.md	Alongside any module using scenario-based comprehension checks or practice exercises.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 files 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.

2mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 0fb921dd4d28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dt-curriculum is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,606 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 665 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Learning and teaching Planning

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