Spiral Curriculum Designer
Plans a multi-lesson series where core concepts return at deeper levels each time
- Repository
- THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
- Stars
- 42,460
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When installed, the agent plans a connected series of lessons built around a few core ideas that recur, each time becoming more complex, abstract, connected, or applied, instead of following a plain chapter-by-chapter list. It drafts a concept map, shows how each idea grows across lessons, asks the user to confirm the plan, and then, as described in the file, builds the lessons in the OpenMAIC course platform and checks them for fake spirals where a topic just repeats or only gets harder. The skill depends on other skills (stage-design, curriculum-planner) that are referenced but not included in the files reviewed.
Great for
- Teachers or course designers who want a Bruner-style spiral curriculum for a unit or course series
- Instructional designers using OpenMAIC who need multi-lesson plans with tracked concept history
- Students or self-learners who want to understand how a series is structured
Skip it if
- A single standalone lesson, because the skill says to use stage-design instead
- Simple sequential coverage of content with no concept revisits, since the skill says to use curriculum-planner instead
- Copying an existing style or directly importing PowerPoint files, which the skill routes to other skills
Try asking
- “Design a spiral curriculum for a 6-lesson introduction to probability that revisits core ideas at increasing complexity”
- “Plan a series on photosynthesis where each lesson returns to the same three concepts with new variables and transfer contexts”
- “Check my existing lesson series for repeated topics that don't actually deepen, and suggest fixes”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
spiral-curriculum.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip spiral-curriculum.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip spiral-curriculum.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the agent a clear subject and target learner level before asking for a series, so the concept spine is grounded in your goals.
- Review and adjust the proposed architecture (number of lessons, timing of each concept) before asking it to build the full series.
- Because the agent builds lessons into a persistent folder, confirm the folder and platform you are using so content lands where you expect.
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.