Competency Unpacker

Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. Use when interpreting curriculum standards or writing learning objectives.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git /tmp/education-agent-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/education-agent-skills/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker ~/.claude/skills/competency-unpacker

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Competency Unpacker

## What This Skill Does

Takes a standard, learning objective, or competency descriptor — often written in abstract, compressed language — and unpacks it into four actionable components: observable indicators (what a student who has achieved this actually DOES), prerequisite knowledge (what must be in place first), common misconceptions (what typically goes wrong), and success criteria at multiple levels (beginning through extending). The output transforms opaque curriculum language into concrete, assessable, teachable components. AI is specifically valuable here because competency descriptors are deliberately compressed — a single sentence like "analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects" contains multiple skills, knowledge domains, and levels of sophistication that must be unpacked before they can be taught or assessed.

## Evidence Foundation
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
competency-unpacker
Repository
GarethManning/education-agent-skills
Path
skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker/SKILL.md
Repo updated
22 October 2026
Listed in
VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

FAQ

What does the Competency Unpacker skill do?

Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success criteria and sub-skills. Use when interpreting curriculum standards or writing learning objectives.

How do I install the Competency Unpacker skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Competency Unpacker popular?

It lives in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 932 GitHub stars and 131 forks, and is included in 1 curated skill list.

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