PERMA-Based Lesson Designer Agent Skill

Design a lesson that embeds PERMA wellbeing elements alongside academic learning objectives.

Context cost
5.1k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 20.5 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—v1.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Design a lesson that embeds PERMA wellbeing elements alongside academic learning objectives. Use when planning lessons that intentionally support both content mastery and student flourishing.

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.

documentationflourishinglesson-designpermapositive-educationseligmanwellbeing

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.md20.5 kB · preview
--- # AGENT SKILLS STANDARD FIELDS (v2) name: perma-based-lesson-designer disable-model-invocation: false user-invocable: true effort: medium # EXISTING FIELDS skill_id: "wellbeing-motivation-agency/perma-based-lesson-designer" skill_name: "PERMA-Based Lesson Designer" domain: "wellbeing-motivation-agency" version: "1.0" evidence_strength: "moderate" evidence_sources: - "Seligman (2011) — Flourish: a visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being" - "Kern et al. (2015) — A multidimensional approach to measuring well-being in students: EPOCH" - "Norrish et al. (2013) — An applied framework for Positive Education at Geelong Grammar School" - "White & Kern (2018) — Positive Education: learning and teaching for wellbeing and academic mastery" - "Waters (2011) — A review of school-based positive psychology interventions" input_schema: required: - field: "lesson_content" type: "string" - field: "student_level" type: "string" optional: - field: "subject_area" type: "string" - field: "perma_focus" type: "string" - field: "student_profiles" type: "array" - field: "lesson_duration" type: "string" - field: "current_wellbeing_concerns" type: "string" output_schema: type: "object" fields: - field: "perma_lesson_plan" type: "object" - field: "perma_mapping" type: "object" - field: "teacher_moves" type: "array" - field: "reflection_prompts" type: "array" chains_well_with: - "wellbeing-learning-connection-mapper" - "motivation-diagnostic-task-redesign" - "belonging-classroom-culture-designer" - "flow-state-condition-designer" teacher_time: "4 minutes" tags: ["PERMA", "positive-education", "Seligman", "flourishing", "wellbeing", "lesson-design"] ---
70# PERMA-Based Lesson Designer
71
72## What This Skill Does
73
74Designs a lesson that integrates Seligman's PERMA framework (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment) into academic content — not as a bolt-on wellbeing activity but as an inherent feature of the learning experience. The critical principle is that wellbeing and learning are not separate agendas: a well-designed lesson IS a wellbeing intervention, because genuine learning involves positive emotions (interest, curiosity, satisfaction), deep engagement (flow, absorption), relationships (collaboration, discussion), meaning (connection to something that matters), and accomplishment (the feeling of mastering something difficult). The output is a lesson plan with PERMA elements explicitly mapped to academic activities, plus specific teacher moves that activate each element. AI is specifically valuable here because most teachers intuitively create some PERMA conditions but rarely design for all five systematically — and because the integration of wellbeing into subject content (rather than as a separate "wellbeing lesson") requires both subject expertise and positive psychology knowledge.
75
76## Evidence Foundation
77
78Seligman (2011) proposed the PERMA model of wellbeing: Positive Emotion (experiencing joy, gratitude, interest, hope), Engagement (being absorbed in activities — flow), Relationships (having supportive, meaningful connections), Meaning (being connected to something larger than oneself), and Accomplishment (achieving goals, mastering challenges). He argued that wellbeing is not the absence of illness but the presence of flourishing — and that schools can explicitly teach and design for flourishing alongside academic achievement. Norrish et al. (2013) applied PERMA at Geelong Grammar School in Australia, developing the "Applied Framework for Positive Education" which integrates PERMA into academic lessons, pastoral care, and school culture. Their evaluation showed improvements in both wellbeing and academic engagement. Kern et al. (2015) developed EPOCH (Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, Happiness), an adolescent-specific measure related to PERMA, demonstrating that these elements predict academic success, life satisfaction, and physical health. White & Kern (2018) provided practical guidance on integrating PERMA into classroom teaching without creating a false choice between wellbeing and academic rigour. Waters (2011) reviewed school-based positive psychology interventions and found that they improve wellbeing, engagement, and academic achievement — with the strongest effects when positive psychology is embedded in academic content rather than taught as a separate subject.
79
80## Input Schema
81
82The teacher must provide:
83- **Lesson content:** What the lesson is about. *e.g. "Year 8 Science: photosynthesis — understanding how plants convert light energy into chemical energy" / "Year 10 English: analysing the character of Lady Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 5"*
84- **Student level:** Year group. *e.g. "Year 8"*
85
86Optional (injected by context engine if available):
87- **Subject area:** The curriculum subject
88- **PERMA focus:** Which element(s) to prioritise
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SKILL.md2,857 words
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What it costs in context

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≈740
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
4,385
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
2.6%
of a 200k window
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5.1k 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.

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Prose, not code

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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.

# PERMA-Based Lesson Designer · 5.1k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/garethmanning-perma-based-lesson-designer/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/perma-based-lesson-designer" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer ] || { mv .claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/perma-based-lesson-designer" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add garethmanning/perma-based-lesson-designer

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/perma-based-lesson-designer/ 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/garethmanning-perma-based-lesson-designer/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/perma-based-lesson-designer" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/perma-based-lesson-designer" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/perma-based-lesson-designer/ 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.

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Referencegarethmanning/perma-based-lesson-designer

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