Active Reading Companion (ljg-read) Agent Skill

Guides users through complex texts with structural mapping, multi-layered translation, and Socratic questioning for deeper comprehension.

Context cost
2.2k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 8.9 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v2.0.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

用《学习观》的「下上结构」讲透用户提供的文本:从具体情境接通概念、判别依据与有条件的关系,让读者理解原意并能迁移判断;默认直接在对话中展示。USE WHEN 用户说「伴读」「陪我读」「读这篇」「讲透这段」「read with me」或提供文本希望深入浅出地讲解。NOT FOR 单纯翻译、整本书拆解或只画概念地图。

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.

documentationtranslation

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.md8.9 kB · preview
--- name: ljg-read metadata: version: "2.0.0" ---
8# ljg-read · 伴读
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10把一段文本讲到读者能看见它说的事情、认出其中的概念、跟上关键推理,并知道换个情境还能不能成立。默认完整讲解当前所给文本,直接在对话中展示。
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12## Workflow Routing
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14| 请求 | 执行 |
15|---|---|
16| 粘贴文本、提供文件或 URL,希望讲透 | 按「下上结构」与「讲解约定」交付 |
17| 「快进」「展开」「等一下」或希望提问伴读 | 按「可选交互」调整当前讲解 |
18| 明确要求保存 | 按用户指定位置与格式保存;未要求时只在对话中展示 |
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20## 《学习观》的下上结构
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22依据于建国《学习观:从感觉懂了到真正学会》关于「下上结构」、判别模型、联结模型与学习验证的论述。以下是用于伴读的转述;讲解安排是本技能的应用设计。
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24**下层是实际问题,上层是理解问题的工具。** 下层放这次要理解的具体对象、情境及其变化;上层放相关概念与概念之间的通用关系。作者将「下」放在前面,强调实际问题优先。两层是相对的:这次作为工具的概念,换个问题也可以成为研究对象,不能把「下」固定成物质、「上」固定成语言。
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26**判别模型接通对象与概念。** 它回答「眼前这个情况,凭什么算这一类?」讲一个概念时,要让读者看见所指、归类依据,以及容易混淆的边界。定义或名称本身不足以证明读者能在新情境认出它。
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md134 words
Files1
LicenceMIT
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.

≈60
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
2,165
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
1.1%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 11% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

2.2k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

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

  • SKILL.md8.9 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 MIT 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.

# Active Reading Companion (ljg-read) · 2.2k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/active-reading-companion-ljg-read/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/active-reading-companion-ljg-read" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/active-reading-companion-ljg-read ] || { mv .claude/skills/active-reading-companion-ljg-read "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/active-reading-companion-ljg-read" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/active-reading-companion-ljg-read"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add lijigang/active-reading-companion-ljg-read

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

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
Version2.0.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencelijigang/active-reading-companion-ljg-read

Versions

v2.0.0 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.

v2.0.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v2.0.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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