# Kud Knowledge Type Mapper

Classify curriculum content into Know, Understand, and Do categories to align teaching...

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

## Description

Classify curriculum content into Know, Understand, and Do categories to align teaching and assessment approaches. Use when planning units, writing objectives, or selecting assessment methods.

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

# KUD Knowledge Type Mapper

## What This Skill Does

Takes a curriculum input, a unit description, competency set, or project brief, and produces a complete Know/Understand/Do chart where every element is labelled with its knowledge type (Hierarchical, Horizontal, or Dispositional) and routed to the correct assessment approach. This is the operational bridge between the Curriculum Knowledge Architecture Designer (which diagnoses what types of knowledge are present) and the assessment skills that build the actual instruments: Coherent Rubric Logic Builder for skills, Dispositional Knowledge Assessment Designer for dispositions. Most KUD charts treat all three columns as equivalent. They are not. A Hierarchical Know element (facts with right/wrong answers) and a Horizontal Know element (contested conceptual knowledge) require fundamentally different assessment, the first can be auto-assessed, the second requires interpretive judgment. A Do that is a skill (assessed by rubric against criteria on a specific task) and a Do that is a disposition (assessed through multi-informant observation over time) cannot be assessed the same way, and routing a disposition to a rubric actively undermines it. This skill makes those distinctions explicit so that every element in the KUD chart has a clear, defensible assessment pathway before teaching begins. AI is specifically valuable here because producing a knowledge-typed KUD chart requires simultaneously applying curriculum epistemology (Bernstein's knowledge structures), assessment design logic (Wiliam's assessability constraints), learning science (Hattie's surface/deep/transfer distinction), and motivation theory (Deci & Ryan's autonomy conditions), a combination that is rare in any single educator and that most planning processes skip entirely.

## Evidence Foundation

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