School Skills for Claude Code

Classroom-ready skills for Claude Code to enhance teaching and learning.

School Skills for Claude Code

Classroom-ready skills for education — lesson plans, Socratic tutoring, circle time, rubrics, arts & crafts, study guides, and concept maps — all inside Claude Code.

Alpha preview. Seven skills ship today; six more are on the way.

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What is this?

Claude Code is a free AI assistant from Anthropic that runs on your computer. You talk to it in plain English and it can read, write, and create things for you — lesson plans, worksheets, handouts, you name it.

Skills are little packets of expertise you can add to Claude Code. Instead of starting from scratch every time, you install a skill once and then Claude knows how to, say, build a standards-aligned lesson plan the way a master teacher would.

School Skills is a bundle of classroom-focused skills for education — useful to teachers, students, tutors, homeschool parents, and anyone helping someone learn.

You do not need to know how to code to use this. If you can paste a command into a window, you are set.

Install

There are two ways to install School Skills. Most people should use the first one.

1. Install as a Claude Code plugin (recommended)

Inside Claude Code, type these two commands. You can literally copy-paste them.

/plugin marketplace add Jellypod-Inc/school-skills
/plugin install school-skills@jellypod
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What is /plugin? It is a built-in Claude Code command for adding and managing add-ons. You type a forward slash (/), then the command name. Claude Code shows you a menu as you type.

That is it. All shipping skills are now available. When you ask Claude something like "help me plan a 5th grade fractions lesson," it will automatically pull up the lesson-plan skill.

To update later:

/plugin marketplace update jellypod

To remove:

/plugin uninstall school-skills@jellypod

2. Install via npx (alternative)

If you already have Node.js installed and you would rather copy the skill files directly into your Claude Code skills folder, run:

npx school-skills install

This copies every bundled skill into ~/.claude/skills/. Claude Code picks them up automatically on the next session.

Other options:

npx school-skills install lesson-plan   # install just one skill
npx school-skills install --force       # overwrite without prompting
npx school-skills list                  # see what is bundled
npx school-skills --help                # see all options
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Skill catalog

Shipping today

SkillWhat it does
lesson-plan ✅Builds a standards-aligned lesson plan with objectives, activities, and assessments. Tailors to grade level, subject, and time available.
socratic-tutor ✅Guides a student through a problem with questions instead of answers. Great for math, science, and reading comprehension.
circle-time ✅Runs a morning meeting or classroom circle with prompts, SEL check-ins, and transition suggestions.
rubric ✅Turns an assignment prompt into a grading rubric — markdown + CSV, aligned to Bloom's.
arts-crafts ✅Plans age-appropriate craft projects with supplies, steps, mess level, and substitutions.
lecture-to-study-guide ✅Converts lecture notes, transcripts, or slides into an outline + key terms + practice questions.
concept-map ✅Produces mind maps and concept maps in Mermaid, Graphviz, or Markmap format — with optional rendering.

Coming soon

SkillWhat it will do
flashcardsGenerate flashcard decks (CSV, Anki .apkg, Quizlet TSV) from notes or topic.
quiz-generatorMultiple choice, short answer, cloze, matching — with answer key and optional printable PDF.
worksheetTurn a topic or standard into a printable PDF worksheet with answer key.
latex-paperScaffold a LaTeX paper, problem set, or lab report — IEEE/ACM/APA/MLA/math templates.
language-drillCEFR-calibrated vocab / conjugation / dialogue drills across 11 languages.
coloring-pagePrintable SVG/PDF coloring pages by theme and age.

(Legend: ✅ shipping, blank = in development.)

What do I do once it is installed?

Just talk to Claude Code naturally. For example:

  • "Plan a 50-minute 8th grade lesson on the water cycle, hands-on if possible."
  • "Help me tutor a student through this algebra problem without giving away the answer."
  • "Give me five circle time prompts for the first week of school."

Claude will recognize when a skill fits and use it automatically.

Requirements

  • Claude Code installed. See https://claude.com/claude-code for install instructions.
  • For the npx path: Node.js 18 or newer.
  • No other software required for the seven shipping skills.

Feedback and issues

This is an early alpha. If something is broken, confusing, or you wish a particular skill existed, please open an issue:

https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/school-skills/issues

Teacher feedback is the whole point.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.