# Competency Unpacker

Unpack a broad standard or competency descriptor into specific, assessable success...

- Repository: https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills (939 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-10-22
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill competency-unpacker -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add GarethManning/education-agent-skills`

## Description

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

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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

The rest: https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/curriculum-assessment/competency-unpacker/SKILL.md