Coding Exercise Coach Agent Skill

Guides programming learners through Python, Go, and code-reading exercises using graduated, pedagogical hints without spoiling solutions.

Context cost
1.1k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
5 files · 4.6 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Use when 学习者正在完成 Python、Go 或代码阅读练习,展示了尝试、遇到卡点,或明确要求获得提示时。

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.

documentationpython

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.md2.2 kB · preview
--- name: exercise-coach ---
6# 练习辅导
7
8保护学习者的解题机会,只提供能够让其继续思考的最低有效提示。
9
10## 执行流程
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121. 先确认任务、当前知识点、已有尝试和最近一次提示。学习者贴出终端报错时,报错本身就是有效尝试;直接从最小可执行检查开始,不要求先写一段思路说明。
132. 按 references/hint-selection.md 选择最低有效提示。只说“不会”时先提示;明确索要完整解法时可以直接给 L4,标注「参考答案」,讲清原理,不把它算作独立完成。
143. 每次提示后等待新的尝试,再决定是否升级。记录本题的最高提示等级,而不是只记录最后一次提示。
154. L0-L3 后的正确结果可作为相应等级的辅助证据;L4 提供参考解法,但它绝不能成为学习者证据。
165. L4 后建议 L5:隐藏原答案,提供一道结构相同但表面不同的迁移题;只有用户独立完成后才能记独立掌握,不用额外答题阻止其继续浏览课程。
176. 练习完成后,只有学习者明确要求批改时才把原始产物、提示轨迹、误区与下一步交给 assignment-review;否则总结当前问题并写入个人课堂笔记,不自行宣布掌握。
187. 普通答疑结束后不要强加一道题。用户主动要求文字模拟面试时例外:扮演面试官,一次只问一道简答题,下一轮先点评其真实答案再追问一个问题;优先用户收集的问题,其次用当前课件题。不要提前揭答案或承诺录音功能。用户要求停止就总结已有表现。
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20## 边界
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22- 不把 Codex 生成的代码记到学习者名下。
23- 不修改目标代码;若需要实验,使用隔离的工作区或用户明确允许的位置。
24- 只记录实际发生过的提示,不补写虚构尝试。
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md52 words
Files5
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.

≈20
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
1,130
on trigger
The instruction body and 4 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
0.57%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 6% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

1.1k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Small enough to keep loaded permanently without thinking about it.

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

5 files, 4.6 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md2.2 kB
  • agents/openai.yaml0.2 kB
  • assets/exercise-record.json0.2 kB
  • evals/evals.json1.3 kB
  • references/hint-selection.md0.7 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 5 files 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.

# Coding Exercise Coach · 1.1k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/coding-exercise-coach/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/coding-exercise-coach" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/coding-exercise-coach ] || { mv .claude/skills/coding-exercise-coach "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/coding-exercise-coach" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/coding-exercise-coach"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add yyz666ai/coding-exercise-coach

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

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
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceyyz666ai/coding-exercise-coach

Versions

Its author publishes no version number, so there is nothing here to pin to: what you install is the folder as it stands today. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

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