syllabus

syllabus is a skill for Claude Code from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow. It costs 140 tokens per session (1,964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A course-planning tool that turns topics or readings into a complete syllabus. It lays out the course, prerequisites, weekly topics and readings, learning goals, assessments, and standard policies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or revise a syllabus, organize a term, define grading criteria, and map each week to future lecture materials.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unstructured list of material into a teachable schedule with clear expectations for students.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to create or revise a syllabus, organize a term, define grading criteria, and map each week to future lecture materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/syllabus
About the project

claude-code-my-workflow is a forkable setup for using Claude Code to produce and review academic papers, slides, data analyses, and replication packages. Researchers use its agents, skills, rules, hooks, and quality checks to coordinate these tasks and verify their results. The catalogue entries define the reusable workflow components for Claude Code.

pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · 1,566 stars · on GitHub · psantanna.com

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 pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill syllabus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,964 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 110
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00140 $0.01964
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.00982
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00196

Measured 4d ago against content hash 60e63e539dd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

syllabus 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/syllabus/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build a Course Syllabus

Turn a bare topic list or reading list into a teachable syllabus: a course description, a sequenced weekly schedule, measurable objectives, an assessment scheme with a rubric, the boilerplate policies every syllabus needs, and a week→lecture work-list you can feed straight into /create-lecture. The instructor owns the academic judgment; this skill structures it.

When to use

  • You have a pile of topics or papers and need them ordered into a term.
  • You are converting last year's syllabus to a new length, level, or modality.
  • You want the schedule's weeks pre-mapped to lecture decks before you start building slides.

Not for building the slides themselves (/create-lecture), reviewing a deck's pedagogy (/pedagogy-review), or assembling the reading list from scratch (/lit-review).

Phase 0: Intake (elicit before drafting)

A syllabus is shaped almost entirely by three parameters. Resolve them first — from flags, then by asking. Do not start sequencing until all three are pinned.

  1. Level + audience--level (phd / grad / undergrad). For economics, name the sequence (first-year metrics, micro theory, macro, field course, undergrad intermediate). Level sets reading depth, proof-vs-application balance, and assessment type.
  2. Length + cadence--weeks (default 14) and --sessions-per-week (default 2). A reading seminar and a problem-set course at the same length need very different schedules.
  3. Material — the topic list or reading list ($ARGUMENTS, a file path, or a .bib). If the user points at a .bib or a folder of PDFs, Glob/Read to inventory it; if topics are bare, ask for 1-2 anchor texts per topic.

Echo a short Intake Report (level, weeks, cadence, N topics / N readings, any gaps) and get confirmation before Phase 1.

Phase 1: Sequence topics into weeks

  1. Order by dependency, not by the reading list's order. Build a prerequisite chain — foundational tools before the topics that use them (e.g., asymptotics → GMM → applications; consumer theory → GE → welfare). Front-load what later weeks assume.
  2. Allocate readings to weeks. Distribute material so each week's load is realistic for the level (a PhD field week carries 2-4 papers; an undergrad week, 1 chapter + 1 application). Flag any week that is overloaded or thin.
  3. Place deliverables on the calendar. Problem sets after the tools they exercise; the midterm at a natural conceptual break; referee report / replication / paper proposal milestones spaced so they don't collide. Mark reading-break and no-class weeks.
  4. Emit the schedule table (topic → readings → deliverable per week) and get sign-off before writing objectives — re-sequencing is cheap now, expensive later.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 4d ago First seen · 120 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 60e63e539dd6

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syllabus is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow (1,566 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 1,964 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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