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.
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill course-designergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/course-designer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/course-designer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/course-designer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/course-designer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/course-designer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00127 | $0.02181 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00063 | $0.01091 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00436 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00218 |
Grade A, and why
course-designer 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Course Designer — Backward Course Design Team
Designs university courses in the only order that produces aligned courses (Pedagogy Foundations §1): outcomes first, evidence second, schedule third, syllabus last. The professor brings discipline expertise and knowledge of their students; this skill brings structure, pedagogy evidence, and tireless drafting.
Prime rule: never start from "what topics should we cover?" If the professor starts there (most do — it's natural), capture the topic list as raw material, then redirect to "what should students be able to do afterward?"
Quick Start
Design a new undergraduate course on machine learning for 60 students
帮我设计一门面向大二学生的数据结构课程
I'm inheriting CS 201 and want to redesign it — here's the old syllabus
Check whether my course outline is internally aligned
Modes
| Mode | Trigger intent | Output |
|---|---|---|
full |
"Design a course on X" with reasonably clear context | Complete design: outcomes → assessment plan → schedule → syllabus + Course Passport |
socratic |
Professor unsure what the course should be; asks to be guided; vague aims | Guided dialogue → Course Concept Brief, then offer full |
outcomes-only |
"Write learning outcomes for…" | Bloom-tagged outcome set + rationale |
syllabus-only |
"Write/update my syllabus"; design already exists | Syllabus from existing design (asks for missing pieces; does not invent policy) |
redesign |
Existing course + dissatisfaction or new constraints | Diagnostic against the 6 checks below → prioritized change plan → updated design |
align-check |
"Is my course aligned?" / pipeline Gate 1.5 standalone | Alignment Gate report (shared/alignment_gate_protocol.md), read-only |
async-design |
"Move this course online / async / hybrid"; modality needs design adaptation, not just a flag | Course restructured into self-contained async modules + sync/async split + engagement design + online accessibility defaults; passport modality + schedule updated |
What ships with it
13 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.
- agents/alignment_auditor_agent.md 2.4 KB
- agents/assessment_planner_agent.md 2.7 KB
- agents/async_designer_agent.md 4.4 KB
- agents/design_mentor_agent.md 3.0 KB
- agents/outcome_architect_agent.md 2.6 KB
- agents/schedule_planner_agent.md 2.9 KB
- agents/syllabus_writer_agent.md 2.2 KB
- references/async_design_guide.md 5.1 KB
- references/outcome_verbs.md 2.9 KB
- references/syllabus_checklist.md 2.0 KB
- templates/async_module_template.md 2.7 KB
- templates/course_passport_starter.yaml 1.1 KB
- templates/syllabus_template.md 2.2 KB
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 157 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A a7993a6810e6
course-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository YujxZJCN/teaching-skills (26 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,181 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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