Competency Framework Translator Agent Skill

Translate an external competency framework like DigComp, GreenComp, or ISTE into classroom-ready activities.

Context cost
6.3k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 25.0 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—v1.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Translate an external competency framework like DigComp, GreenComp, or ISTE into classroom-ready activities. Use when implementing framework standards in specific teaching contexts.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

competency-frameworksdigcompdocumentationgreencompisteobservable-indicatorstranslationunesco-ai

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md25.0 kB · preview
--- # AGENT SKILLS STANDARD FIELDS (v2) name: competency-framework-translator disable-model-invocation: false user-invocable: true effort: medium # EXISTING FIELDS skill_id: "professional-learning/competency-framework-translator" skill_name: "Competency Framework Translator" domain: "professional-learning" version: "1.0" evidence_strength: "moderate" evidence_sources: - "Wiggins & McTighe (2005) — Understanding by Design: translating standards into classroom practice" - "Marzano & Kendall (2007) — The New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: operationalising competencies" - "European Commission (2022) — DigComp 2.2: the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens" - "Bianchi, Pisiotis & Cabrera (2022) — GreenComp: the European sustainability competence framework" - "UNESCO (2023) — Guidance for generative AI in education and research" input_schema: required: - field: "framework_reference" type: "string" - field: "target_context" type: "string" optional: - field: "student_level" type: "string" - field: "subject_area" type: "string" - field: "framework_text" type: "string" - field: "integration_approach" type: "string" - field: "assessment_needs" type: "string" output_schema: type: "object" fields: - field: "translated_competency" type: "object" - field: "progression_levels" type: "array" - field: "classroom_tasks" type: "array" - field: "assessment_criteria" type: "object" chains_well_with: - "competency-unpacker" - "criterion-referenced-rubric-generator" - "backwards-design-unit-planner" - "project-brief-designer" - "curriculum-knowledge-architecture-designer" - "scope-and-sequence-designer" teacher_time: "4 minutes" tags: ["competency-frameworks", "DigComp", "GreenComp", "ISTE", "UNESCO-AI", "translation", "observable-indicators"] ---
72# Competency Framework Translator
73
74## What This Skill Does
75
76Takes any external competency framework — DigComp (digital competence), GreenComp (sustainability), ISTE Standards, UNESCO AI competency framework, national curriculum frameworks, or any other competency-based system — and translates its abstract descriptors into classroom-ready observable indicators, progression levels, teaching tasks, and assessment criteria for a specific subject and year group. The critical problem this solves is that competency frameworks are written for policy audiences, not for teachers: "Critically evaluates the credibility and reliability of sources of data, information and digital content" (DigComp 2.2) is meaningful to a policy analyst but tells a Year 8 History teacher nothing about what to teach, what tasks to set, or how to assess. The output is a translation: the same competency, expressed as specific things students can DO at different levels, with tasks that make the competency visible and criteria that make it assessable. AI is specifically valuable here because this translation requires understanding both the framework's intent (what the competency is really asking for) and the classroom reality (what students at this age can be expected to do, in this subject, with these resources).
77
78## Evidence Foundation
79
80Wiggins & McTighe (2005) established the principle that standards and competencies must be "unpacked" into observable indicators before they can be taught and assessed. A competency statement is a destination; the teacher needs a map showing what the journey looks like at each stage. Without unpacking, teachers either teach to the abstract wording (which students can't understand) or interpret the competency so broadly that it loses its meaning. Marzano & Kendall (2007) provided a taxonomy for operationalising competencies — moving from retrieval (can the student recall the knowledge?) through comprehension (can they explain it?) to analysis (can they compare, classify, evaluate?) to knowledge utilisation (can they apply it in a new context?). This taxonomy provides the backbone for progression levels. The DigComp 2.2 framework (European Commission, 2022) is a worked example of a competency framework that explicitly acknowledges the need for contextualisation — it provides 8 proficiency levels but notes that these must be adapted for specific educational contexts. GreenComp (Bianchi et al., 2022) takes a similar approach, defining sustainability competencies at a high level but requiring schools to translate them into subject-specific learning. UNESCO's (2023) guidance on AI in education introduces competencies for AI literacy that are new to most curriculum frameworks and urgently need classroom-level translation. In all cases, the gap between framework and classroom is the problem this skill addresses.
81
82## Input Schema
83
84The teacher must provide:
85- **Framework reference:** Which framework and which competency. *e.g. "DigComp 2.2 — Competency 1.2: Evaluating data, information and digital content" / "GreenComp — Competency area: Embracing complexity in sustainability" / "ISTE Standards for Students — Computational Thinker" / "UNESCO AI competency — Understanding AI ethics and responsible use"*
86- **Target context:** Where this competency will be taught. *e.g. "Year 9 History — students evaluating online sources about the causes of WW1" / "Year 7 Geography — students understanding the interconnected causes of climate change" / "Year 10 Computer Science — students understanding bias in AI systems"*
87
88Optional (injected by context engine if available):
89- **Student level:** Year group
90- **Subject area:** The curriculum subject
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md3,538 words
Files1
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈820
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
5,430
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
3.1%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 31% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

6.3k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 25.0 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md25.0 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Competency Framework Translator · 6.3k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/competency-framework-translator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/competency-framework-translator" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/competency-framework-translator ] || { mv .claude/skills/competency-framework-translator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/competency-framework-translator" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/competency-framework-translator"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add garethmanning/competency-framework-translator

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/competency-framework-translator/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/competency-framework-translator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/competency-framework-translator" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/competency-framework-translator ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/competency-framework-translator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/competency-framework-translator" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/competency-framework-translator" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/competency-framework-translator/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version1.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencegarethmanning/competency-framework-translator

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v1.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v1.0
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Pinning

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