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Course exercise scaffolder
Describe your course section. Get exercise folders with problems, solutions and explainers that pass linting.
Course exercise scaffolder is a free AI skill for the job "Build and ship software". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · MIT licence · Made by Matt Pocock · Thinking: low
Made by Matt Pocock. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A folder tree for a course section, filled with problem, solution and explainer files that pass your lint checks. You skip the hand made folders and start writing the teaching content. You describe the section and its exercises, or hand over a plan. The skill names directories to the required pattern, picks the right exercise variant, and creates the needed files in each folder. It follows the lint rules so errors do not appear later, and it covers moving or renaming exercises without breaking links. You can stub every exercise from a plan in one pass. It is built for code-based courses and needs a project folder you can write to.
You give it
- Section name and exercise list
- Your course folder
- Exercise type for each (optional)
- Lesson plan (optional)
You get
- Exercise folders
- Problem, solution and explainer stubs
- Lint-passing structure
- Rename and move steps
Use it when
- You are starting a new course section with ten exercises.
- You have a lesson plan and want stub files made for it.
- Linting fails because folders or files are named wrong.
- You need to rename an exercise without breaking the order.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.
- It works best when your AI can run code.