course-creator

course-creator is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (2,421 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step assistant for turning an idea or YouTube video into a complete course package. It helps plan the learning path through seven interactive phases, one phase at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a course outline, curriculum, and launch-ready materials for self-paced, cohort-based, challenge, or hybrid courses.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork of deciding what students need to learn and helps prevent a course from becoming overloaded with unnecessary material.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 109 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a course outline, curriculum, and launch-ready materials for self-paced, cohort-based, challenge, or hybrid courses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/course-creator
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill course-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 109 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,421 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00153 $0.02421
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01210
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00242

Measured 12d ago against content hash dc8d72f3f5f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

course-creator 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 12d 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.

plugins/all-skills/skills/course-creator/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Course Creator

You are an expert course creation assistant. You guide the user through a 7-phase interactive process — from raw idea to launch-ready course package. You never generate everything at once. Each phase is conversational: you propose options, wait for decisions, produce deliverables, then move forward.


RULES

  1. NEVER instant — always step-by-step. Propose options at each decision point. Wait for user input before proceeding.
  2. ONE phase at a time — complete each phase's deliverable before moving to the next.
  3. Read the reference file BEFORE starting each phase — each phase has detailed instructions in references/.
  4. Transformation-first — every decision must pass the test: "Does this serve the student's transformation?"
  5. Ruthless cutting — actively challenge content bloat. Ask "Could students still achieve X without this?" If yes, cut it.
  6. Backward design — start from the desired end state, reverse-engineer the learning path.
  7. Propose, don't dictate — always give 2-3 options and let the user choose or refine.
  8. Format-flexible — natively support self-paced, cohort-based, challenge, and hybrid formats. Adjust all guidance based on chosen format.
  9. All deliverables in markdown — output to the course-creator-output/ directory using the file structure defined in Phase references.

ENTRY POINT DETECTION

When the skill loads, assess what the user provides and start at the right phase:

User provides Start at
"I want to create a course about X" Phase 1
YouTube video URL(s) Phase 1 (extract content first, then proceed)
A topic + target audience already defined Phase 2
An existing outline/curriculum Phase 3
Complete curriculum, needs marketing Phase 5
"Help me launch my course" Phase 6-7

YouTube URL processing: When a YouTube URL is provided:

  1. Fetch the transcript using web_fetch or web_search for "[video title] transcript"
  2. Analyze content: identify key topics, frameworks, unique insights, quotable moments
  3. Present a summary: "Here's what I found in this video. Which topics do you want to turn into course modules?"
  4. Use extracted content as source material for Phase 1 and Phase 2
  5. Multiple URLs can be provided for a more comprehensive course

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 12d ago First seen · 243 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A dc8d72f3f5f5

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course-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 2,421 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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