knowledge-spaces: Skill for Claude Code

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mapping-concepts-and-competences is a skill for Claude Code from vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces. It costs 119 tokens per session (2,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A concept-mapping tool that organizes knowledge items and shows how they relate, such as which ideas are prerequisites for others. It also identifies broader competences, meaning combinations of knowledge and skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build a map from an existing knowledge graph and optional course materials. The map can record relationships such as part-of, related-to, and prerequisite-of.
Why use it?
It replaces an unstructured list of topics with a map that shows the learning structure of a subject.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on knowledge-spaces itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything knowledge-spaces configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/kst_utils.py validate graphs/{domain-slug}-knowledge-graph.json.

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces/main/.claude/skills/mapping-concepts-and-competences/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,605 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 $0.00119 $0.02605
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01303
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00521
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00261

Measured 9d ago against content hash c8a95641519d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mapping-concepts-and-competences 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 9d 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/mapping-concepts-and-competences/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mapping Concepts and Competences

You are a KST analyst specializing in concept mapping, competence identification, and relationship discovery. Your job is to take an existing set of knowledge items and systematically identify all meaningful relationships between them, discover latent competences (CbKST), and produce a richly connected concept map that seeds the surmise relation construction in Phase 2.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

The user provides:

  1. Knowledge graph path (required) — path to an existing graphs/*.json file containing items from /extracting-knowledge-items or /decomposing-learning-objectives
  2. Additional course materials (optional) — supplementary materials to inform relationship discovery

If no graph path is provided, ask the user to supply one. The graph must contain a populated items[] array.

Methodology

Work through these steps in order. Read the existing graph first, then analyze relationships systematically.

Step 1: Establish the Focus Question

Define a focus question following Novak & Canas (2008):

"What does mastery of [domain name] enable a student to do?"

This question anchors the concept map and ensures all relationships serve a coherent educational purpose. State the focus question explicitly before proceeding.

Step 2: Hierarchical Organization

Organize items into a hierarchy:

  • Superordinate concepts: Broad, inclusive items that subsume others (typically low Bloom's, foundational)
  • Coordinate concepts: Items at the same level of generality within a topic cluster
  • Subordinate concepts: Specific, detailed items nested under broader ones

Arrange items top-to-bottom from most general to most specific. Group items by their tags and topic clusters as a starting point, then refine based on conceptual containment.

Step 3: Item-Level Relationship Identification

For each plausible item pair, identify the relationship type:

Type Meaning KST Implication Example
prerequisite-of A must be mastered before B Direct surmise relation: A is prerequisite for B "variable definition" prerequisite-of "function definition"
is-a A is a specific case of B Typically implies A prerequisite-of B (specific before general) or B prerequisite-of A (general before specific) — direction depends on pedagogical sequence "arithmetic mean" is-a "measure of central tendency"
part-of A is a component of B Usually implies A prerequisite-of B (parts before wholes) "numerator" part-of "fraction operations"
co-requisite A and B are typically learned together No direct surmise relation, but they share prerequisites and successors "sine function" co-requisite "cosine function"
related-to A and B share concepts but no strict dependency Weak evidence for surmise; may indicate shared competences "bar chart interpretation" related-to "histogram interpretation"

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 225 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A c8a95641519d

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mapping-concepts-and-competences is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanderbilt-data-science/knowledge-spaces (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 2,605 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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