Claude Skills for Intelligent Textbooks

View the Live Site

Visit the interactive documentation at: https://dmccreary.github.io/claude-skills/

Overview

Claude Skills for Intelligent Textbooks is a comprehensive collection of AI-powered skills and workflows designed to revolutionize educational content creation. Built with Claude AI and optimized for intelligent textbook development, this repository provides educators and content creators with powerful tools to generate interactive, standards-based educational materials at scale.

This project enables the creation of Level 2+ intelligent textbooks using MkDocs with the Material theme, incorporating learning graphs, concept dependencies, interactive p5.js simulations (MicroSims), and AI-assisted content generation. Every skill follows educational best practices including Bloom's Taxonomy (2001 revision) for learning outcomes, ISO 11179 standards for terminology definitions, and concept dependency graphs to ensure proper prerequisite sequencing.

Whether you're an educator building course materials, a technical writer creating documentation, or a developer interested in educational technology, these Claude skills provide a systematic, AI-powered approach to creating comprehensive, interactive educational content. The skills can generate everything from foundational learning graphs with 200+ concepts to interactive quizzes, glossaries, FAQs, and engaging simulations—all following rigorous quality standards.

Site Status and Metrics

Completion Status: Approximately 90% complete (content generation and skill development phase)

Skills Available: 19 specialized skills covering learning graphs, content generation, interactive visualizations, and educational assessments.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher
• Git
• Basic familiarity with markdown and command line

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/dmccreary/claude-skills.git
cd claude-skills

Install Dependencies

This project uses MkDocs with the Material theme:

pip install mkdocs
pip install mkdocs-material
pip install pymdown-extensions

Build and Serve Locally

Build the documentation site:

mkdocs build

Serve locally for development (with live reload):

mkdocs serve

Open your browser to http://localhost:8000

Deploy to GitHub Pages

mkdocs gh-deploy

This will build the site and push it to the gh-pages branch.

Using the Skills

Option 1: Global Installation (All Projects)

Create symlinks to make skills available globally:

cd scripts
./install-claude-skills.sh

This installs skills to ~/.claude/skills/ for use across all Claude Code projects.

Option 2: Project-Specific Installation

Skills in this repository are automatically available when working within this project directory.

Invoke a skill in Claude Code:

Use the learning-graph-generator skill to create a concept graph for my course

Or use the slash command:

/skill learning-graph-generator

List available skills:

./scripts/list-skills.sh

Using the Documentation Site

Navigation:

• Use the left sidebar to browse chapters and skill descriptions
• Click the search icon (🔍) to search all content
• Each chapter includes quizzes for self-assessment
• The Learning Graph section shows concept dependencies and quality metrics

Interactive MicroSims:

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