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progressive-hint-ladder

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Fine to try.

By GarethManning/education-agent-skills (GitHub) · design · 981 stars · scanned at commit 135d627

Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation. Teaches help-seeking as a skill and prevents direct-answer shortcuts.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'progressive-hint-ladder' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'progressive-hint-ladder' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named progressive-hint-ladder already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '135d6275e7db0657d70b147f46d3191c5430677d' -- 'skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/student-learning/progressive-hint-ladder' ~/.agents/skills/'progressive-hint-ladder' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'progressive-hint-ladder' ~/.claude/skills/'progressive-hint-ladder' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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