# Curriculum Knowledge Architecture Designer

Map the epistemic structure of a subject to determine knowledge types and inform...

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

## Install

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

## Description

Map the epistemic structure of a subject to determine knowledge types and inform curriculum sequencing. Use when designing courses, restructuring programmes, or analysing knowledge architecture.

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

# Curriculum Knowledge Architecture Designer

## What This Skill Does

Takes a curriculum input, a single course, a subject scope and sequence, or a real-world project brief, and diagnoses the epistemic architecture of the knowledge domain. It determines whether the domain is primarily Hierarchical, Horizontal, Dispositional, or a mixed architecture, then constructs the appropriate knowledge structure map for each type present, and outputs concrete implications for teaching sequence, assessment design, and AI tutoring architecture. Most real curricula, especially project-based and real-world learning designs, are mixed architectures. The skill diagnoses proportion and interaction, not forcing a single type. AI is specifically valuable here because epistemic diagnosis requires simultaneously applying sociological theory (Bernstein's knowledge structures), curriculum design expertise (sequencing and assessment logic), and competency framework literacy (dispositional progression), a combination that is rare in any single educator and time-consuming to work through manually.

## Evidence Foundation

The rest: https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/curriculum-assessment/curriculum-knowledge-architecture-designer/SKILL.md