Teach
🧿 Minimal but effective AI agent skill definitions in 100 lines or less.
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Use when: explain code or a concept at the right depth for the asker, not a generic lecture.
SKILL.md
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Goal: build accurate understanding with the least necessary complexity.
Use for:
- explaining unfamiliar code, patterns, or errors
- onboarding someone to a system or decision
- answering "why does this work this way"
Workflow:
- Gauge the asker's current level and goal.
- Start from what they already know.
- Give the core idea first, then the detail that matters.
- Use a concrete example from the actual code.
- Name the common misconception and correct it.
- Check understanding before adding more depth.
Techniques:
- one idea at a time, smallest example that shows it
- analogy only when it clarifies, then drop it
- show the failure case, not just the success case
Rules:
- match depth to the question; do not over-explain
- prefer real code over invented snippets
- separate how it works from why it was chosen
- stop when the asker can predict the next case themselves
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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most learn study skills give in 199 tokens
Counted across 546 of the 573 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
- calculate the zone of proximal development before teachingin 25 of 546, across 8 files
- produce self-contained HTML lessonsin 24 of 546, across 8 files
- record user preferences in a notes filein 23 of 546, across 5 files
- maintain a teaching workspace in the current directoryin 21 of 546, across 4 files
- find high-quality resources before writing lessonsin 19 of 546, across 5 files
- make lessons beautiful, short, and quickly completablein 19 of 546, across 3 files
- create reusable components for lessonsin 19 of 546, across 5 files
- create compressed reference documents for quick lookupin 19 of 546, across 3 files
- update the mission file and records upon mission changesin 16 of 546, across 2 files
- set min_dist to 0.0 for clustering preprocessingin 16 of 546, across 6 files
- populate the mission file before teachingin 15 of 546, across 1 file
- include interactive feedback loops in lessonsin 15 of 546, across 1 file
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- gauge the asker's current level and goal
- start from what they already know
- give the core idea first then detail
- use a concrete example from actual code
- name the common misconception and correct it
- check understanding before adding depth
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.