/socratic-tutor
Tutors a student through a problem via guiding questions without ever handing over the answer. Triggers on phrases like "help me understand", "I'm stuck on my homework", "tutor me through this", "walk me through how to solve", "explain step by step", "I don't get why", "I need
$ npx -y skills add Jellypod-Inc/school-skills --skill socratic-tutor --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/socratic-tutor
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Tutors a student through a problem via guiding questions without ever handing over the answer. Triggers on phrases like "help me understand", "I'm stuck on my homework", "tutor me through this", "walk me through how to solve", "explain step by step", "I don't get why", "I need
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.
Repo: Jellypod-Inc/school-skills
Other skills on school-skills.
- /arts-crafts
Plan age-calibrated craft projects for kids ages 2-10 — supply list, step-by-step instructions, safety notes, mess level, prep time, variations, cleanup, and learning connections. Use whenever a teacher or parent asks for a classroom or home craft. Triggers on "craft for pre-k
Open skill - /circle-time
Plan circle time, morning meeting, or opening routine for PreK-2 classrooms. Use this whenever a teacher asks for a preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade morning meeting, greeting, song, calendar/weather, theme discussion, movement activity, story time, SEL check-in,
Open skill - /concept-map
Turn a topic, chapter, or pasted source into a visual graph — mind maps, concept maps, prerequisite trees, cause-effect networks, taxonomies, process flows, or timelines. Triggers on student phrasings like "mind map of the french revolution", "concept map for photosynthesis",
Open skill - /lecture-to-study-guide
Turns raw class material — pasted notes, slide-deck PDFs, or class transcripts — into a 7-section study guide (outline, key terms, concept summaries, Mermaid diagrams, worked examples, 10-20 practice questions, one-page cheat sheet). USE THIS SKILL when a student says "turn my
Open skill - /lesson-plan
One-shot standards-aligned lesson plans — Common Core, NGSS, TEKS, IB, Cambridge, state frameworks. Takes a topic, grade, and duration; returns a fully formatted plan with objectives, standards, materials, Gradual Release pedagogy (I do / we do / you do), 13 sections, and
Open skill - /rubric
Turn an assignment prompt into a ready-to-use grading rubric (a.k.a. scoring guide / grading guide) with zero blank cells. USE THIS SKILL when a teacher, professor, TA, or parent says "I need a rubric for…", "make me a scoring guide", "how should I grade this?", "build an
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