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Vocational Task-Engine Course Design

Plans hands-on job-training courses as ordered work steps with tools, safety limits and GO/STOP checks

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Repository
THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
Stars
42,460
Licence
MIT
Files
2 files

What it does

When installed, this skill changes how an AI agent plans a training course for a real job or certification. Instead of writing a lecture about a topic, the agent lays out a practical sequence that follows what a technician would actually do: preparing equipment, performing the operation step by step, checking measurements, and completing a handover. Each hands-on stage lists the tools, ordered steps, pass criteria and the consequences of mistakes, and at least one checkpoint asks the learner whether to proceed, recheck, or stop.

Great for

  • Instructional designers building workplace or technical training courses for trades, industrial or clinical procedures
  • Developers working on OpenMAIC who need the course-outline format for procedural, interactive scenes
  • Trainers who want certification-style practice with GO/STOP decisions rather than concept quizzes

Skip it if

  • Purely theoretical or academic topics such as maths derivations or literature, because the skill tells the agent to fall back to an ordinary course instead, and forcing procedures onto them produces weak content
  • Real safety-critical operation without expert review: the skill generates training text, not verified procedures for live equipment, electrical work or clinical care, so errors in its output could cause harm if used as the authority

Try asking

  • “Design a vocational course on checking insulation resistance in a low-voltage distribution cabinet, with GO/STOP decisions for abnormal readings”
  • “Create a hands-on training sequence for a clinical sterile-dressing procedure with completion criteria”
  • “Plan an equipment-maintenance course for a CNC machine: preparation, operation, verification and handover”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Vocational Task-Engine Course DesignInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    vocational.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip vocational.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip vocational.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 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 specific details: the exact occupation, equipment model, standards and pass thresholds, so the success criteria are concrete rather than generic
  • Have a qualified subject-matter expert check every tool list, step order, threshold and safety boundary before learners use the course
  • Ask for varied framings (inspection sheets, measurement dashboards, fault triage) so hands-on scenes do not repeat the same checklist

What's inside

  • outline-constraints.json
  • 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.