teach-me

teach-me is a skill for Claude Code from Open-Agent-Tools/General-OAT-Skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,791 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interactive teaching workflow that researches a topic, divides it into up to 10 lessons, and presents the lessons one at a time. It asks questions to check understanding and supports different difficulty levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn a subject through guided lessons, comprehension checks, and beginner, advanced, or expert settings.
Why use it?
It gives learners a structured path instead of requiring them to organise research and practice themselves.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the general-oat-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn a subject through guided lessons, comprehension checks, and beginner, advanced, or expert settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-agent-tools/general-oat-skills/teach-me
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 Open-Agent-Tools/General-OAT-Skills --skill teach-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Open-Agent-Tools/General-OAT-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install general-oat-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,791 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 $0.00077 $0.01791
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00179

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3e35712af35f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

teach-me 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 10d 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.

skills/teach-me/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Teach Me — Interactive Lesson Skill

Deliver a structured, interactive learning experience on any topic. Research the topic deeply, build a curriculum, then walk the user through lessons one at a time with comprehension checks.

Step 0 — Parse Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract:

  1. Topic — everything that is not a flag. This is required. If missing, ask the user what they want to learn about.
  2. Level flag — one of --beginner, --advanced, --expert. If none is specified, default to standard (bachelor's-level professional with general domain background).
  3. Lesson count--lessons N where N is 1–10. Default is 10 if not specified.

How levels affect content:

Level Vocabulary Depth Scope
--beginner Plain language, no jargon without definition Foundational concepts, analogies, gentle intro Core essentials only, skip advanced subtopics
standard Professional, assumes general education Solid conceptual + practical coverage Broad coverage of key subtopics
--advanced Technical, domain-specific terms OK Deeper mechanics, trade-offs, edge cases Includes nuanced and less common subtopics
--expert Dense, assumes strong prior knowledge Implementation details, internals, cutting edge Comprehensive including niche and frontier topics

Step 1 — Research Phase

Tell the user:

Researching {topic}... This will take a moment while I build your curriculum.

Launch 3 parallel research agents using the Agent tool to gather comprehensive material on the topic. Each agent should use WebSearch and WebFetch to find current, authoritative information.

Agent 1: Core Concepts & Foundations

subagent_type: general-purpose

Search the web for foundational material on the topic. Find:

  • Authoritative tutorials, guides, and documentation
  • Core terminology and definitions
  • Key concepts a learner must understand
  • The logical order concepts should be learned in
  • Common misconceptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 10d ago First seen · 219 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 3e35712af35f

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teach-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository Open-Agent-Tools/General-OAT-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,791 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.