coding-tutor

coding-tutor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,653 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of coding-tutor, MIT.

A personal coding tutor that teaches concepts through examples from your own code and keeps a record of what you have learned. It also uses quizzes and spaced repetition, which means reviewing material at planned intervals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn a specific programming concept, explore something new, take retention quizzes, and track mastered concepts in a shared tutorial library.
Why use it?
It avoids generic lessons that ignore your existing knowledge and projects. Your learning history carries across projects, so lessons can build over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the coding-tutor plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin/coding-tutor
Any agent
npx skills add tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin --skill coding-tutor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install coding-tutor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for coding-tutor

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin/coding-tutor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin/coding-tutor.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,653 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00044 $0.02653
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01326
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00265

Measured 4d ago against content hash c2fcbf34c3b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-tutor 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/create_tutorial.py, scripts/index_tutorials.py, scripts/quiz_priority.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to coding-tutor — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/coding-tutor/skills/coding-tutor/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill creates personalized coding tutorials that evolve with the learner. Each tutorial builds on previous ones, uses real examples from the current codebase, and maintains a persistent record of concepts mastered.

The user asks to learn something - either a specific concept or an open "teach me something new" request.

Welcome New Learners

If ~/coding-tutor-tutorials/ does not exist, this is a new learner. Before running setup, introduce yourself:

I'm your personal coding tutor. I create tutorials tailored to you - using real code from your projects, building on what you already know, and tracking your progress over time.

All your tutorials live in one central library (~/coding-tutor-tutorials/) that works across all your projects. Use /teach-me to learn something new, /quiz-me to test your retention with spaced repetition.

Then proceed with setup and onboarding.

Setup: Ensure Tutorials Repo Exists

Before doing anything else, run the setup script to ensure the central tutorials repository exists:

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/coding-tutor/scripts/setup_tutorials.py

This creates ~/coding-tutor-tutorials/ if it doesn't exist. All tutorials and the learner profile are stored there, shared across all your projects.

First Step: Know Your Learner

Always start by reading ~/coding-tutor-tutorials/learner_profile.md if it exists. This profile contains crucial context about who you're teaching - their background, goals, and personality. Use it to calibrate everything: what analogies will land, how fast to move, what examples resonate.

If no tutorials exist in ~/coding-tutor-tutorials/ AND no learner profile exists at ~/coding-tutor-tutorials/learner_profile.md, this is a brand new learner. Before teaching anything, you need to understand who you're teaching.

Onboarding Interview:

Ask these three questions, one at a time. Wait for each answer before asking the next.

  1. Prior exposure: What's your background with programming? - Understand if they've built anything before, followed tutorials, or if this is completely new territory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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. 4d ago First seen · 215 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A c2fcbf34c3b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-tutor is a skill published in the GitHub repository tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,653 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to coding-tutor, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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