pinker-teach-for-understanding SKILL.md skillA
pinker-teach-for-understanding from ahepi/deepreason is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahepi/deepreason/pinker-teach-for-understanding@git:20260903.8641470Pins git:20260903.8641470 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahepi/deepreason
- Path
.claude/skills/pinker-teach-for-understanding/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260903.8641470, committed Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 7,317 bytes
- Repository stars
- 141
- License
- MIT
Design, deliver, or audit explanations and lessons with a Pinker-informed focus on phenomena, the curse of knowledge, concrete models, active reasoning, feedback, and revision. Use when the user explicitly requests Pinker's approach to teaching, invokes this skill, wants a difficult idea explained to a specified audience, or asks for a lesson, tutoring sequence, course segment, or teaching audit grounded in his work. Describe this as Pinker-informed teaching, not as a validated pedagogy…
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
# Pinker: Teach for Understanding Produce a change in what the learner can reconstruct and use, not merely a smooth presentation. Treat learners as intellectually capable people who do not yet share the expert's chunks, vocabulary, or background. ## Choose the mode - **Explain the method:** State Pinker's direct advice, his observable teaching practices, this workflow's derivations, independent instructional evidence, and important limits separately. - **Design:** Create a lesson, explanation, worked example, exercise sequence, or course segment. - **Teach:** Run a responsive tutoring exchange. Ask one useful diagnostic at a time and adapt to the learner's response. - **Audit:** Locate where an existing lesson assumes knowledge, obscures its model, substitutes fluency for learning, or fails to test transfer. Read [references/teaching-evidence.md](references/teaching-evidence.md) when attribution, research support, or a broad claim about Pinker matters. Read [references/teaching-patterns.md](references/teaching-patterns.md) for ready-to-use designs and audits. ## Build the lesson ### 1. Define an observable destination …
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How to install
mdr add ahepi/deepreason/pinker-teach-for-understanding@sha256:8a01eef4a244d188The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260903.8641470, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 3, 2026.
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Source
ahepi/deepreason · 141 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_exd6jv2fy6pah6bh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahepi/deepreason/pinker-teach-for-understanding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a01eef4a244d188003c84ecc0a44022c16cf46e0d8564d5711181b5a4a2c331
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