{ "$schema": "https://top-agent-skills.com/schemas/catalog.v1.json", "type": "vertical-category", "slug": "education", "title": "Education", "shortTitle": "Education", "description": "Tutoring, content authoring, assessment generation, research synthesis.", "canonical": "https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-education", "alternates": { "html": "https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-education", "markdown": "https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-education.md", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-education.json" }, "rubricVersion": "1.0", "methodology": "https://top-agent-skills.com/about/methodology", "contentLastUpdated": "2026-08-31", "count": 11, "topPick": { "slug": "docling", "name": "docling", "score": 66, "tagline": "One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself.", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling" }, "ranking": [ { "rank": 1, "slug": "docling", "name": "docling", "score": 66, "tagline": "One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself.", "bestFor": "Reading or converting documents the agent cannot open directly, at 65K stars and MIT: scanned PDFs, Office formats, tables, and chunking a corpus for retrieval.", "notIdealFor": "Producing polished Office files. Docling is a reader and converter — for generating a styled DOCX, XLSX or PPTX, the Anthropic document skills are the better fit.", "provenance": "verified-org", "publisher": "Docling project (LF AI & Data)", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code", "cursor", "codex" ], "install": "pip install docling && uvx library-skills --claude", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling.json" }, { "rank": 2, "slug": "azure-document-translation", "name": "azure-ai-translation-document-py", "score": 59, "tagline": "Batch document translation that preserves layout — the part that breaks when you translate a PDF by extracting text and re-flowing it.", "bestFor": "Translating a corpus of Word, PDF, Excel or PowerPoint files where the formatting has to survive the round trip.", "notIdealFor": "A single short document, or anything that cannot leave your infrastructure — it is a cloud batch service with Azure credentials attached.", "provenance": "verified-org", "publisher": "Microsoft", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-translation-document-py", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-document-translation", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-document-translation.json" }, { "rank": 3, "slug": "elevenlabs-text-to-speech", "name": "text-to-speech", "score": 56, "tagline": "Vendor-official voiceover generation across 70+ languages, from the company that defined the category. Ships with evals, which almost no skill does.", "bestFor": "Generating a voiceover or in-product speech where quality is the point — narration for video, accessibility audio, or a voice interface.", "notIdealFor": "Anything with no budget or no network. Every call is billable against an ElevenLabs key, so it is not a free local capability.", "provenance": "verified-org", "publisher": "ElevenLabs", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill text-to-speech", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-text-to-speech", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-text-to-speech.json" }, { "rank": 4, "slug": "elevenlabs-speech-to-text", "name": "speech-to-text", "score": 56, "tagline": "Transcription and subtitle generation as a first-class skill — the media job agents are asked for most and could not previously do well.", "bestFor": "Turning recorded audio or video into text you can act on: subtitles, meeting notes, or a searchable transcript of a media archive.", "notIdealFor": "Confidential audio that cannot leave your infrastructure — it is a hosted API, so the audio is uploaded.", "provenance": "verified-org", "publisher": "ElevenLabs", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill speech-to-text", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-speech-to-text", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-speech-to-text.json" }, { "rank": 5, "slug": "elevenlabs-dubbing", "name": "dubbing", "score": 56, "tagline": "Localise video while keeping the original speaker's voice — and correct the transcript before regenerating, rather than accepting the first pass.", "bestFor": "Localising existing video or podcast content into other languages, including the review loop where you fix the machine transcript before the final dub.", "notIdealFor": "Live or real-time translation. This is a batch pipeline over recorded media, and each regeneration costs API credit.", "provenance": "verified-org", "publisher": "ElevenLabs", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill dubbing", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-dubbing", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-dubbing.json" }, { "rank": 6, "slug": "education-agent-skills", "name": "education-agent-skills", "score": 53, "tagline": "The pedagogy library: backwards design, rubric generation, formative assessment, learning progressions.", "bestFor": "Teachers, instructional designers, and curriculum leads who want unit plans, rubrics, and assessments grounded in named pedagogical research rather than generic prose.", "notIdealFor": "Anyone needing a permissive software licence. It ships under CC BY-SA 4.0 — a copyleft content licence, so derivative material inherits ShareAlike. Also a single-maintainer project, and 165 skills is a large metadata footprint to load at once.", "provenance": "community", "publisher": "Gareth Manning", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill retrieval-practice-generator", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/education-agent-skills", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/education-agent-skills.json" }, { "rank": 7, "slug": "zotero-skills", "name": "zotero-skills", "score": 48, "tagline": "Programmatic access to the reference manager academia actually uses.", "bestFor": "Keeping a Zotero library organised and queryable from the agent instead of through the desktop client.", "notIdealFor": "Literature synthesis or writing — this is library operations. Pair it with research-hub or research-co-pilot, both of which sit above it in the workflow.", "provenance": "community", "publisher": "Wenyu Chiou", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add WenyuChiou/zotero-skills --skill zotero-skills", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/zotero-skills", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/zotero-skills.json" }, { "rank": 8, "slug": "research-co-pilot", "name": "research-co-pilot", "score": 47, "tagline": "The academic writing half nothing else covers: manuscript, grant, peer review, reviewer response.", "bestFor": "Graduate students, postdocs and faculty who need the writing and submission stages supported, not just the reading stage.", "notIdealFor": "Reference-library management — that is what the Zotero skills are for. Single maintainer, last upstream commit June 2026, and one of the fifteen ships broken: peer-review’s frontmatter puts an unquoted colon inside its description, so the YAML fails to parse and installers skip that skill entirely.", "provenance": "community", "publisher": "Marazii", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add Marazii/research-co-pilot --skill literature-review", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/research-co-pilot", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/research-co-pilot.json" }, { "rank": 9, "slug": "valyu", "name": "valyu", "score": 46, "tagline": "Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research.", "bestFor": "Research workflows needing current, authoritative data with 79% FreshQA score.", "notIdealFor": null, "provenance": "verified-org", "publisher": "Valyu", "license": "Proprietary", "compatibility": [ "claude-code", "claude-api", "cursor", "codex" ], "install": "npx skills add valyuai/skills", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/valyu", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/valyu.json" }, { "rank": 10, "slug": "scientific-skills", "name": "scientific-skills", "score": 45, "tagline": "Scientific computing + dataset APIs. Reproducible research workflows for agents.", "bestFor": "Computational biology, materials, physics — anywhere reproducibility matters.", "notIdealFor": null, "provenance": "community", "publisher": "K-Dense-AI", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/scientific-skills", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/scientific-skills.json" }, { "rank": 11, "slug": "research-hub", "name": "research-workspace", "score": 44, "tagline": "Zotero plus Obsidian plus NotebookLM as one agent-operable research workspace.", "bestFor": "Researchers with a reference library and a note vault who want triage, synthesis, and topic selection driven from the agent rather than by hand.", "notIdealFor": "Anyone not already using Zotero or Obsidian — the value is in orchestrating those tools, not replacing them. Shares a maintainer with the zotero-skills entry.", "provenance": "community", "publisher": "Wenyu Chiou", "license": "MIT", "compatibility": [ "claude-code" ], "install": "claude plugin marketplace add WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills", "url": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/research-hub", "json": "https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/research-hub.json" } ], "faqs": [ { "question": "Are these Skills useful for K-12 vs higher ed?", "answer": "Both — the structure changes (reading level, depth, assessment format) but the underlying Skills handle the level via a parameter." }, { "question": "Can a Skill build a tutoring agent?", "answer": "Yes — several Skills scaffold subject-specific tutors with the right system prompt, knowledge sources, and Socratic-style interaction patterns." }, { "question": "Do these Skills respect FERPA?", "answer": "The Skills themselves are policy-neutral. FERPA compliance depends on how you handle student data; the Skills generate the artifacts, you control the storage and access." }, { "question": "Are assessment-generation Skills reliable?", "answer": "The top Skills produce questions with answer keys and rubric criteria, and flag ambiguous items. Lower-ranked Skills generate plausible-sounding questions that don't test the stated objective." }, { "question": "Do these support multiple languages?", "answer": "Yes — content-translation Skills handle the major languages with awareness of pedagogical conventions per language. Specialist languages benefit from a paired translator review." } ], "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "Top Agent Skills (https://top-agent-skills.com)" }