retrieval-practice

retrieval-practice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills. It costs 4 tokens per session (1,518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating retrieval-practice materials, which ask learners to reconstruct information from memory instead of only rereading it. It can produce recall questions, quizzes, misconception checks, answer notes, and short teaching instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create classroom starters, exit tickets, low-stakes quizzes, active-recall prompts, answer notes, and error-correction activities.
Why use it?
It helps teachers or facilitators make learners actively retrieve knowledge and reveal what they do not yet understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create classroom starters, exit tickets, low-stakes quizzes, active-recall prompts, answer notes, and error-correction activities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/retrieval-practice
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 Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills --skill retrieval-practice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,518 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 $0.00004 $0.01518
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00759
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00152

Measured 11d ago against content hash f155575505f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retrieval-practice 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 11d 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.

education/skills/retrieval-practice/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

retrieval-practice

Guide-type skill for generating retrieval practice materials that make learners reconstruct knowledge from memory. Use it to create teacher-facing or facilitator-facing active-recall questions, low-stakes quizzes, answer notes, misconception checks, and short implementation scripts.

This skill is not a homework tutor, exam writer, study planner, or grading engine. It creates practice materials; it does not run a live quiz one question at a time, manage learner progress, or produce high-stakes assessments.

When to use

Use this skill when the user asks for:

  • Retrieval practice questions for a topic, unit, lesson, or concept.
  • Classroom starters, exit tickets, recap questions, or low-stakes quizzes.
  • Active-recall prompts that avoid passive review and surface misconceptions.
  • A mix of free recall, cued recall, recognition, error-correction, diagram, scenario, or explanation prompts.
  • Answer notes and teacher implementation guidance.

Do not use this skill for:

  • One-on-one homework help or answer checking. Use a homework/quiz tutoring workflow instead.
  • Long-term study scheduling. Use a study-planning workflow instead.
  • Formal exam papers, graded assessments, or official certification tests.
  • Direct-submit assignments or academic dishonesty.
  • Generic worksheet generation that only asks recognition or copy-from-notes questions.

How to call

  1. Collect the required inputs:

    • Topic or concept.
    • Learner level and prior knowledge.
    • Question count.
    • Context of use: starter, exit ticket, homework review, quiz, mixed-topic review, or spaced review.
  2. Ask for missing inputs only when they materially affect the question design. If the user gives only a topic, assume a short mixed-ability set and state the assumption.

  3. Collect optional inputs when available:

    • Time since learning.
    • Known misconceptions.
    • Curriculum standard or syllabus.
    • Allowed question formats.
    • Language support needs.
    • Whether the user wants answer notes, implementation script, or follow-up variants.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 174 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A f155575505f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retrieval-practice is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 1,518 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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