/teach — a tutor that remembers where you got to

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Slash command /teach

a tutor that remembers where you got to

Turns the current folder into a teaching workspace and Claude into a tutor that keeps your progress in files. Learning is treated as a multi-session thing — you can stop, come back next week, and pick up where you left off instead of re-explaining what you already know.

beginner ⏱ replaces a half-day course View source ↗

In practice

You've been asked to review a colleague's Python notebook and you don't really know Python. Asking Claude to explain it line by line works once, but next Tuesday you start from zero. With `/teach python basics` the folder becomes a workspace: what you've covered, what you struggled with, and what's next all live in files on disk. Three sessions later Claude opens knowing you're solid on lists and still shaky on decorators, and picks up there.

Most Claude sessions answer a question. /teach is built to run a course — and the difference is that it keeps state.

Run it in an empty folder:

/teach how git branching works

Claude treats that directory as a teaching workspace and writes your progress into it — what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, what comes next. Close the session, come back in a week, and the context is on disk rather than gone.

Why this one is on the list

It is the closest thing on this page to what this hub is for. A colleague who wants to understand permission modes rather than copy a command is better served by a tutor that tracks them over three sittings than by one very good answer they’ll have forgotten by Thursday.

It also pairs naturally with Level up to interactive — ask for the lesson as an interactive HTML page and you get something you can click through rather than scroll.

Worth knowing

• Use a dedicated folder. The skill writes its state files into the working directory. Point it at a real project and you’ll get lesson notes scattered among your code.
• It’s user-invoked only. Claude won’t start teaching on its own; you type /teach.
• Installing gives you the whole set. mattpocock-skills is one plugin containing many skills — /handoff and /grill-me on this page arrive in the same install.

Access

Public — no access request needed. It ships in Claude Code’s official marketplace, so there is no marketplace add step.

Get this skill running

Copy-paste into Claude Code. The marketplace + install steps run once per machine; the last one is how you call the skill day-to-day.

1. 1 Access

   Public repo — no access request needed.

2. 2 Install the skill

   /plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official

3. 3 Use it

   /teach

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