What “open source” means for you

  • It’s transparent.

    Every skill is a plain-text file anyone can read. Nothing is hidden.

  • It’s free and shareable.

    The kit is released under the MIT License, a permissive license that lets anyone use, copy, change, and share it, including the copyright and license notice. It comes “as is,” without warranty.

    Read the license (opens GitHub)

  • It’s community-built.

    Copyright: © 2026 EduAgentsKit contributors. Improvements come from the people who use it.

Right now, testing matters most

The skills haven’t been tested live in any AI tool yet. If you try one in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode, or a chat assistant, your report, even “it worked fine,” helps everyone.

Ways to help (no technical skills required)

The project says the most useful contributions are fixes from real classroom use. A note like “the rubric skill writes levels that two of us scored differently” is worth more than a new skill.

  • Report a problem. Say which skill and AI tool you used, what you asked for (with student information removed), what you got, and what you expected.
  • Suggest a skill. Describe the teacher’s problem it would solve.
  • Share feedback. Tell us what worked and what didn’t in your classroom.
  • Spread the word. Tell a colleague who might find it useful.

Opening an issue needs a free GitHub account. Posts on GitHub are public.

For contributors comfortable with GitHub

  • Change a skill: fork the repository, edit the SKILL.md following the authoring guide (opens GitHub), try it in at least one AI tool and say which in your pull request, run the checks (npm run validate and npm test), and open a pull request explaining what changed and why.
  • Add a skill: open an issue first describing the teacher’s problem, then follow the authoring guide and include a worked example in examples/.

The checks:

npm run validate
npm test

Full guide: CONTRIBUTING.md (opens GitHub)

Ground rules (from the contributing guide)

  • Plain English.
  • No real student data in issues, examples, or tests. Use invented work and say that it’s invented.
  • No invented standard codes.
  • No copyrighted texts beyond short quotations.
  • Every skill and agent name starts with edu-.

By contributing, you agree that your contribution is licensed under the MIT License.

A kind, respectful community

We want everyone, especially teachers new to open source, to feel welcome. [TBD: code of conduct, as none is in the repository yet (Q-COMM-2)]