spiral-curriculum

spiral-curriculum is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing a series of lessons in which a few core ideas return later with greater complexity or in new situations. It is based on the spiral curriculum approach, where learners revisit ideas instead of covering them only once.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan multi-lesson units, define the ideas learners should carry across lessons, and increase complexity, abstraction, connections, or real-world transfer each time an idea returns.
Why use it?
It prevents a course series from becoming a simple list of topics or repeating the same review without deeper understanding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps plan multi-lesson units, define the ideas learners should carry across lessons, and increase complexity, abstraction, connections, or real-world transfer each time an idea returns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thu-maic/openmaic/spiral-curriculum
About the project

OpenMAIC is a multi-agent classroom platform that uses agents to plan, build, and revise interactive courses from prompts and uploaded materials. It is designed for immersive learning experiences and supports course components such as slides, quizzes, interactives, projects, images, video, voices, and PowerPoint imports, with catalogue skills covering its workflows.

THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC · 35,893 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC --skill spiral-curriculum
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits
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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 $0.00095 $0.02335
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00233

Measured 12d ago against content hash fe6fe978ab5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spiral-curriculum 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.

skills/agent-runtime/spiral-curriculum/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

螺旋式课程设计

设计一组系列课,让少数核心概念在整个系列中反复回来,并且每次都发生结构性升阶。最小设计对象是“概念脊柱 + 每个概念的遭遇史”,不是某一节课的目录。

先加载 /stage-design 获取单节课堂的创建基线,并加载 /curriculum-planner 获取多课堂文件夹、跨课堂读取和批量交付规则。本 Skill 在它们之上增加螺旋架构、升阶操作符和假螺旋检查。

适用范围

用于以下请求:

  • 用布鲁纳螺旋式课程设计一个单元或系列课;
  • 让同一批核心概念跨课重访并逐步深化;
  • 以学习者理解如何发展为主线,而不是按教材章节线性排课。

不要用于:

  • 单节独立课,此时使用 /stage-design 和相应主题 Skill;
  • 只要求按顺序覆盖内容、没有概念升阶重访的系列,此时使用 /curriculum-planner
  • 风格复制或 PPT 直接导入,此时使用 /style-clone/pptx-import

第一原则:Revisit 不等于 Review

“第 1 课讲概念、第 3 课复习概念、第 6 课再复习”不是螺旋。每次重访必须明确回答:这一次比上一次多了什么?

每次重访至少在以下一个维度升级:

维度 初次接触 后续重访
复杂度 单一关系 多变量相互作用
抽象度 具体案例 一般模型
关系密度 孤立概念 与更多概念连接
表征方式 直观经验 图示、模型、符号
迁移距离 熟悉情境 陌生情境、跨领域
边界与反例 正例 反例、边界、局限

如果一次回来没有在任何维度更高,就只是重复,必须重写。

页面内容红线

Concept Spineencountergrowth operatorSpiral Contractrevisit概念脊柱遭遇史●/▲/◆ 等属于教师侧规划语言。它们可以出现在对话、架构和页面 brief 中,不得出现在学生可见的标题、标签或正文。

“本次比上次多了什么”写进 brief,不写成学生页面上的“复杂度升级”标签。老师与代理的口述走 narration / actions,不写成“老师说”“学生说”的静态正文。

概念脊柱

不要先排课时清单。先回答:整个系列结束后,学生真正应该建立哪几个能够反复使用和迁移的核心观念?

  • 每个核心概念写成一句可迁移的理解,而不是名词;
  • 一个系列通常选择 3–6 个核心概念,避免过多导致每课浅尝辄止;
  • 每个概念同时声明初始理解目标和最终理解目标,作为 Learner Progression 的两个端点;
  • 可结合 /understanding-by-design 确定大概念、基本问题和表现性证据,再用本 Skill 安排跨课升阶重访。

Spiral Map

为每个核心概念维护跨课遭遇史:直觉经验 → 机制解释 → 多变量关系 → 形式化模型 → 陌生情境迁移 → 与其他概念整合。

教师侧 Spiral Map 可以使用:

  • :首次接触;
  • :深化;
  • :综合与迁移。

每个标记旁边还必须写明本次新增结构。只有符号、没有升阶说明的表格没有价值。

规划一次重访

对每个 concept + previous encounter + target growth 决定四件事:

  1. 保留什么:哪些已有理解不需要重新教学;
  2. 增加什么:本轮新增的内容或条件;
  3. 重组什么:哪些孤立知识需要组成机制或关系;
  4. 迁移到哪里:用哪个新情境检验概念结构。

升阶操作符

  • ADD_COMPLEXITY:增加变量或相互作用;
  • ADD_RELATION:让当前概念与另一个概念形成必要关系;
  • ABSTRACT:从案例上升到一般模型;
  • FORMALIZE:引入符号、模型或专业语言;
  • CHANGE_REPRESENTATION:在操作、图像模型和符号表征之间重构概念,不机械套成固定课次顺序;
  • INCREASE_TRANSFER_DISTANCE:逐渐进入更陌生或跨领域的情境;
  • ADD_EXCEPTION:加入反例、边界、约束或局限。

一次重访通常选择 1 个主操作符和少量辅助操作符。不要一次叠满所有操作符,那只会堆难度。

概念记忆

螺旋依赖跨 stage 的共享记忆。平台不会替本 Skill 自动维护概念模型,所以要在当前对话中保存教师侧运行记录,至少包含:

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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 · 179 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A fe6fe978ab5a

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spiral-curriculum is a skill published in the GitHub repository THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC (35,893 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,335 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 2026-08-30.

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