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Async Learning Teacher

Turns saved links, papers, and videos into readable chapter-style teaching notes, with an optional step-by-step tutor that checks your understanding.

EducationBeginner★ 132⑂ 4AI score 10/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Converts "read it later" captures (blog posts, papers, threads, videos, docs, notes) into teaching artifacts written like book chapters.
  • Two modes:
    • quick-teach: one-shot, full explanation of a single source or a tight set.
    • interactive-tutor: builds a learning path, teaches one step at a time, and refuses to advance until you can explain the current step.
  • Fixed output templates: Why This Matters → Prerequisites → Chapters → Subtle Points → Examples → What To Remember → Follow-Up Questions → Validation Gaps.
  • Explicit honesty rules: never claim to have read inaccessible pages, mark uncertainty, summarize instead of reproducing copyrighted passages, and re-verify medical/legal/financial claims.

Who it's for

  • Anyone with a bookmark graveyard of unread articles.
  • Students and engineers who want papers and technical docs explained from first principles.
  • Self-learners who need someone to quiz them and correct misunderstandings.
  • People who must quickly prepare study-group or internal training material.

Example uses

  1. Paste a paper link: "Teach me this chapter by chapter" → a Markdown note with prerequisites, chapters, examples, and takeaways.
  2. Drop 8 links on one topic: "Teach me this from scratch, assume I know linear algebra" → a learning path plus only Step 1 with validation questions.
  3. Paste the text of a paywalled article: "Explain it for a beginner and quiz me" → explanation, questions, and a re-teach with a different example if your answer misses.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills/HEAD/skills/async-learning-teacher/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.

↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/async-learning-teacher folder from the GitHub repo tamdogood/builder-essential-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/async-learning-teacher/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r builder-essential-skills/skills/async-learning-teacher ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r builder-essential-skills/skills/async-learning-teacher ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/async-learning-teacher — you should see SKILL.md.
  6. Restart Claude Code, then ask something like "Teach me this link chapter by chapter" or "Tutor me on this topic step by step and validate me".
  7. If a page can't be fetched, paste the source text directly into the chat.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT