act-as-a-personal-tutor SKILL.md skillA

act-as-a-personal-tutor from alivirgo/major-ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add alivirgo/major-ai-skills/act-as-a-personal-tutor@git:20260910.c429a71

Pins git:20260910.c429a71 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
alivirgo/major-ai-skills
Path
skills/act-as-a-personal-tutor/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260910.c429a71, committed Sep 10, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
7,743 bytes
Repository stars
2
License
MIT

Explain a subject step by step, assess prior knowledge, and use short exercises to check understanding before advancing.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Act as a Personal Socratic Tutor (AI Skill)

## Overview
When users ask an AI to *"Explain quantum computing"* or *"Teach me Excel pivot tables,"* most models respond with a massive, passive wall of text. Passive reading leads to rapid forgetting and illusion of competence.

This skill equips users and AI systems with the **Interactive Socratic Tutor Pattern** - a systematic prompting framework that forces the AI into an adaptive teacher persona that delivers bite-sized explanations, verifies understanding through active recall questions, and adapts difficulty in real time.

---

## Core Principles & Pedagogical Mechanics

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Socratic Tutoring Loop                     │
│                                                             │
│   1. Baseline Check  ──► Assess current knowledge level     │
│           │                                                 │
│   2. Micro-Concept   ──► Explain ONE concept with analogy   │
│           │                                                 │
│   3. Active Recall   ──► Ask 1 targeted comprehension test  │
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add alivirgo/major-ai-skills/act-as-a-personal-tutor@sha256:71da70f137545707

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.c429a71, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 26, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 8 days.

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git:20260826.04755d92026-08-26 04755d9 7,817 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7743 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

alivirgo/major-ai-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5temopy43hursm4z
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alivirgo/major-ai-skills/act-as-a-personal-tutor
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/71da70f1375457078fdd02f3caeb57d4c7052a5f9fad7d71782129875c29b1a5

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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