vocabulary-builder

vocabulary-builder is a skill for Claude Code from OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An English-learning tool for building and reviewing vocabulary from B1 to C2, the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference. It includes word combinations, example sentences, and a file-based system that schedules reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create themed vocabulary sets, learn academic words, practise phrasal verbs and collocations, or review previously studied words in quizzes.
Why use it?
It helps learners choose words suited to their level and remember them through planned review instead of keeping an unstructured word list.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the english-exam-coach plugin — 8 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create themed vocabulary sets, learn academic words, practise phrasal verbs and collocations, or review previously studied words in quizzes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach
Claude Code
/plugin install english-exam-coach

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install english-exam-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 commands.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,185 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 $0.00092 $0.01185
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00119

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8a7c1dab296d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vocabulary-builder 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/english-exam-coach/skills/vocabulary-builder/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vocabulary Builder

Leveled vocabulary with collocations and a file-based Leitner system. Paths are relative to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} (if unset, resolve relative to this file). The review state lives in the user's progress directory ($EXAM_COACH_HOME or ~/english-exam-coach/), NOT in the plugin.

When to use

The user asks for new vocabulary at a level or topic, asks to review/quiz existing vocabulary, or meets unknown words in another drill and wants them kept.

Steps

  1. New set: identify level (B1–C2) and theme (topic, exam register, e.g. "hedging for C1 writing"). Follow the structure in data/item-bank/seed/vocabulary-sets.md: 5–8 items per set, each with collocations and one original example sentence. Level the words, not just the theme: pick items whose frequency/register fits the level — B1 high-frequency everyday; B2 common academic (roughly the AWL mid-bands); C1 lower-frequency and abstract; C2 idiomatic/precise nuance — and write the example sentence at that level too, so the set carries level-appropriate language beyond the headword. Note that hedging and precision-verb sets sit at C1/C2, not B1–B2. Open lists like the Academic Word List may be referenced nominatively.

  2. Persist for review: append new items to <base>/vocab-box.json (create if missing). The file is a JSON array; each element is {"item": ..., "level": ..., "box": 1, "added": "YYYY-MM-DD", "due": "YYYY-MM-DD"} with ISO dates. New items enter box 1 with due = today, so they surface in the next review round. Canonical Leitner intervals (must match vocabulary-sets.md): box 1 = next session · box 2 = 1 day · box 3 = 3 days · box 4 = 7 days · box 5 = 30 days (mature). This file is working state and MAY be rewritten — unlike attempts.jsonl, which this skill never touches directly.

  3. Review ("quiz me"): read vocab-box.json, select items with due <= today (oldest first, max ~12 per round). Quiz actively — ask for the word from a definition/gap sentence, or a collocation completion; a plain "do you remember this?" is not a test. Correct → box +1 (max 5), set due = today + the new box's interval above; wrong → back to box 1, due = today (next session). Rewrite the file once at the end of the round.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 · 90 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 8a7c1dab296d

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vocabulary-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,185 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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