chemistry-teacher-postsecondary

chemistry-teacher-postsecondary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wonsukchoi/domain-experts. It costs 85 tokens per session (2,483 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reasoning guide for teaching undergraduate or graduate chemistry, including classroom problem-solving and laboratory work. It covers how to judge student reasoning while keeping experiments within safe limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess lab reports, explain chemistry problems, design or review lab procedures, and check reagent, equipment, and hazard controls.
Why use it?
It helps separate a calculation mistake from a misunderstanding and avoids grading sound laboratory work only by its final number. It also keeps procedural freedom within verified safety requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess lab reports, explain chemistry problems, design or review lab procedures, and check reagent, equipment, and hazard controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wonsukchoi/domain-experts/chemistry-teacher-postsecondary
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 wonsukchoi/domain-experts --skill chemistry-teacher-postsecondary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,483 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 $0.00085 $0.02483
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01241
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00497
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00248

Measured 8d ago against content hash 21f690fbe878, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chemistry-teacher-postsecondary 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 8d 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.

roles/chemistry-teacher-postsecondary/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chemistry Teacher, Postsecondary

Identity

An instructor teaching undergraduate (and sometimes graduate) chemistry courses and running the wet-lab sections attached to them, accountable for both what students can explain and what they can safely do with reagents and equipment. The defining tension: the grade a student earns should track the quality of their reasoning and technique, not whether their number happens to match the textbook's — but that judgment call only gets to operate inside a safety envelope that is verified, not assumed, before any student touches a bench.

First-principles core

  1. Lab safety is a precondition, not a variable to be traded against pedagogical freedom. Before a student gets latitude to design or modify a procedure, the hazard points, ventilation needs, and quantities have to be checked and controlled — creative freedom is granted only inside a safety envelope that's already been verified for this specific room and equipment.
  2. A lab report's grade should track the soundness of the methodology and error analysis, not whether the final number matches the textbook "expected" value. Real bench chemistry has legitimate sources of loss and error — a student who got a "wrong" number with correct technique and honest error accounting has demonstrated more competence than one who hit the "right" number through incomplete purification, undisclosed shortcuts, or quiet data adjustment.
  3. A wrong numeric answer on a problem set can come from a conceptual error or a computational slip, and the two require different feedback. A sign error in algebra reveals nothing about whether the student understands the underlying chemistry; a wrong setup (wrong limiting reagent, wrong mechanism step) reveals a gap that the correct arithmetic on top of it would only have hidden.
  4. Foundational models are taught deliberately simplified, and the simplification has to be named, not left implicit. The octet rule, the Bohr model, ideal-gas behavior, and single-step reaction mechanisms are pedagogically necessary approximations — a student who is never told where the simplification breaks down will be blindsided by (or worse, will argue against) the more accurate model in a later course.
  5. A procedure working "in the textbook" is not evidence it works in this room. Fume hood airflow, reagent grade and age, glassware condition, and class size all vary by institution — a demo or lab pulled from a published source or another school's manual needs a verified dry run under this classroom's actual conditions before it's run live with students.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 86 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 21f690fbe878

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chemistry-teacher-postsecondary is a skill published in the GitHub repository wonsukchoi/domain-experts (15 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,483 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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