What This Skill Does

Compares two or more band-tagged frameworks and produces a framework-neutral topic matrix showing coverage and gaps across all inputs…

Context cost
7k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 27.8 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—v2.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Compares two or more band-tagged frameworks and produces a framework-neutral topic matrix showing coverage and gaps across all inputs, plus an optional reference-centric PLC crosswalk document when a reference framework is supplied.

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.

crosswalkcurriculum-alignmentdocumentationframework-comparisonplcporter-content-analysissource-voice-preservationwebb-alignment

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.md27.8 kB · preview
--- name: curriculum-crosswalk disable-model-invocation: false user-invocable: true effort: high skill_id: curriculum-alignment/curriculum-crosswalk skill_name: Curriculum Crosswalk domain: curriculum-alignment version: "2.0" evidence_strength: moderate evidence_sources: - "Webb, N. L. (1997) — Criteria for Alignment of Expectations and Assessments in Mathematics and Science Education, CCSSO Research Monograph No. 6: the canonical four-dimension alignment framework (categorical concurrence, depth-of-knowledge consistency, range-of-knowledge correspondence, balance of representation); this skill operationalises categorical concurrence and range at the school-band level." - "Porter, A. C. (2002) — Measuring the content of instruction: Uses in research and practice, Educational Researcher 31(7), 3–14: the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum methodology for comparing intended vs enacted curricula across frameworks via common content taxonomies." - "Porter, A. C., Smithson, J., Blank, R. & Zeidner, T. (2007) — Alignment as a teacher variable, Applied Measurement in Education 20(1), 27–51: alignment indices and content-matrix methodology applied across standards documents." - "Case, B. J., Jorgensen, M. A. & Zucker, S. (2004) — Alignment in Educational Assessment, Pearson Assessment Report: practical alignment procedures that surface rather than hide framework differences — the rationale for the divergence and unique-content tables in this skill's output." - "Martone, A. & Sireci, S. G. (2009) — Evaluating alignment between curriculum, assessment, and instruction, Review of Educational Research 79(4), 1332–1361: literature review establishing that alignment studies should preserve framework distinctiveness rather than collapse to a lowest-common-denominator schema — the design principle behind this skill's refusal to produce a merged mega-framework." input_schema: required: - field: comparison_frameworks_band_tagged type: string optional: - field: reference_framework_band_tagged type: string - field: reference_framework_name type: string - field: theme_taxonomy type: string - field: focus_bands type: string - field: focus_themes type: string - field: plc_context type: string output_schema: type: object fields: - field: framework_neutral_matrix type: string - field: framework_neutral_matrix_csv type: string - field: framework_neutral_summary_matrix type: string - field: theme_grouping_flags type: array - field: crosswalk_document type: string - field: crosswalk_convergence_csv type: string - field: skill_flags type: array - field: internal_trace type: object chains_well_with: - developmental-band-translator - learning-progression-builder - scope-and-sequence-designer - curriculum-knowledge-architecture-designer - gap-analysis-from-student-work teacher_time: 30 minutes tags: - curriculum-alignment - crosswalk - framework-comparison - Webb-alignment - Porter-content-analysis - PLC - source-voice-preservation ---
86# What This Skill Does
87
88This skill compares two or more band-tagged frameworks and produces a framework-neutral topic matrix as its primary output. Its input is the output of the Developmental Band Translator skill — one output per framework. Every framework is treated as an equal participant: topics present in any framework appear as rows in the matrix, and a framework's absence at a given theme × band is shown as an explicit "—" gap, not an omission. This makes the primary output useful for identifying what any framework lacks, not just where frameworks agree.
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90If a reference framework is also supplied, the skill additionally produces a secondary reference-centric crosswalk document — a Markdown document that a teacher or PLC facilitator can open and use directly for a professional discussion, organised under five required sections: Convergence, Divergence, Unique Content, Sequencing Differences, and Questions for PLC. The secondary document and its associated CSV are only produced when a reference framework is supplied.
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92The skill is deliberately additive, not reductive. It does not merge the frameworks into a single synthesised schema. It does not rewrite statements into a common voice. Each framework's content appears in the output in the original words the framework used, attributed by name. This is a design decision grounded in Martone & Sireci (2009): alignment work that hides framework distinctiveness loses the very information a PLC needs to make a planning decision.
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94The skill is opinionated about the distinction between "cross-framework agreement" and "cross-framework coincidence". Two frameworks addressing the same topic at the same band is convergence only if they also treat the topic at comparable depth and intent. Where that is unclear, the skill flags the pairing as *apparent convergence, teacher confirmation needed* rather than silently counting it as agreement.
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96# Evidence Foundation
97
98**Webb (1997)** — The four-dimension alignment framework (categorical concurrence, depth-of-knowledge consistency, range-of-knowledge correspondence, balance of representation) is the canonical reference point for alignment work in curriculum and assessment. This skill operationalises categorical concurrence (do the frameworks address the same topics?) and range (do the ages match?) at the school-band level. Depth-of-knowledge and balance are deliberately not assessed automatically; the Questions for PLC section surfaces them for human discussion.
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100**Porter (2002) and Porter et al. (2007)** — The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum methodology established that framework comparison requires a common content taxonomy. The theme taxonomy — whether supplied via theme_taxonomy or derived from all input frameworks — serves this role. The skill inherits the Porter methodology's commitment to making the comparison visible and defensible: every cell in every table traces back to specific items in specific frameworks.
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102**Case, Jorgensen & Zucker (2004)** — Practical alignment procedures in assessment explicitly recommend that alignment studies preserve framework differences rather than suppress them. The framework-neutral matrix exists for exactly this reason: a theme row where the reference framework cell is "—" is as informative as a row where it matches others. A crosswalk that showed only overlap would erase the most important planning signal.
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104**Martone & Sireci (2009)** — This review article establishes that alignment studies should preserve framework distinctiveness rather than collapse to a lowest-common-denominator schema. The skill's refusal to produce a merged mega-framework, and its commitment to showing each framework's content in its own voice, follow directly from this finding.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md3,628 words
Files1
LicenceApache-2.0
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.

≈1,810
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
5,140
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
3.5%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 35% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

7k 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, 27.8 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md27.8 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. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

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

# What This Skill Does · 7k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/what-this-skill-does/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/what-this-skill-does" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/what-this-skill-does ] || { mv .claude/skills/what-this-skill-does "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/what-this-skill-does" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/what-this-skill-does"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add hashgraph-online/what-this-skill-does

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/what-this-skill-does/ 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/what-this-skill-does/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/what-this-skill-does" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/what-this-skill-does ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/what-this-skill-does "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/what-this-skill-does" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/what-this-skill-does" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/what-this-skill-does/ 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. It appears as curriculum-crosswalk in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, what-this-skill-does.

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
Version2.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencehashgraph-online/what-this-skill-does

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Pinning

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