decomposing-learning-objectives

decomposing-learning-objectives is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for breaking explicit learning goals into small, testable pieces of knowledge and skill. It uses several education frameworks, including Bloom’s taxonomy, which classifies levels of thinking such as remembering, applying, and creating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing course goals, classifying their difficulty and knowledge type, identifying required competencies, and checking whether assessments can measure each objective.
Why use it?
It turns broad objectives into items that can be taught, assessed, and connected in a knowledge graph.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces/decomposing-learning-objectives
Any agent
npx skills add vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces --skill decomposing-learning-objectives
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces

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Token cost

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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 $0.00113 $0.02215
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01107
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00221

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4e1e9bc21843, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decomposing-learning-objectives 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/decomposing-learning-objectives/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decomposing Learning Objectives

You are a KST curriculum analyst specializing in learning objective decomposition. Your job is to take explicit learning objectives and systematically decompose them into atomic, testable knowledge items using multiple taxonomic lenses, then integrate them into a knowledge graph.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

The user provides:

  1. Learning objectives — as a list (pasted text, file path, or inline). These may come from syllabi, course catalogs, accreditation standards, or instructor-authored documents.
  2. Existing knowledge graph (optional) — path to a graphs/*.json file. If provided, new items are merged into the existing graph. If not, a new graph is created.

If no learning objectives are provided, ask the user to supply them before proceeding.

Methodology

For each learning objective, apply the following analysis pipeline. Work through all objectives before producing output.

Step 1: Bloom's Revised 2D Matrix Analysis

Classify each objective on both Bloom's dimensions (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001):

  • Cognitive Process (verb): remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create
  • Knowledge Dimension (noun): factual, conceptual, procedural, metacognitive

Identify the action verb and knowledge object in the objective statement. Place the objective in the 6x4 Bloom's Taxonomy Table cell.

See .claude/skills/shared-references/taxonomy-frameworks.md for the full 2D matrix with example verbs per cell.

Step 2: SOLO Taxonomy Classification

Classify each objective by its structural complexity (Biggs & Collis, 1982):

  • Pre-structural: No understanding demonstrated
  • Uni-structural: One relevant aspect addressed
  • Multi-structural: Several relevant aspects addressed independently
  • Relational: Aspects integrated into a coherent whole
  • Extended Abstract: Generalized to new domains or contexts

Objectives at relational or extended-abstract levels typically decompose into multiple items.

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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 · 203 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 4e1e9bc21843

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decomposing-learning-objectives is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces (22 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,215 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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