# assessment-architect

Build exams, quizzes, rubrics, and project briefs, then analyze exam results. Useful when you need assessments tied to course outcomes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 41
- Author: YujxZJCN
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills/tree/HEAD/assessment-architect/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/assessment-architect

## What it does

For an exam, the skill first maps course content against Bloom levels, assigns points and time, then drafts questions and a checked answer key with worked solutions. The professor must approve the blueprint before item writing begins. If key context is missing, the skill asks for it rather than guessing.

It can also create rubrics with TA calibration notes, TILT project briefs, and question banks with variants. After an exam, it analyzes item difficulty and distractor performance from a results table. The AI-resilience audit is read-only. Accommodation versions are for accommodations that have already been granted; the skill does not decide eligibility.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill assessment-architect -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/assessment-architect/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/assessment-architect/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill assessment-architect -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/assessment-architect/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill assessment-architect -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/assessment-architect/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install YujxZJCN/teaching-skills assessment-architect
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/assessment-architect/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill assessment-architect -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --path assessment-architect
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/assessment-architect/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill assessment-architect -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills/tree/HEAD/assessment-architect/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map exam questions to course outcomes
- draft test items and worked answer keys
- create grading criteria with observable descriptors
- write a staged project brief for students
- analyze item difficulty from exam results

## Example prompts
- Write the midterm for CS 201; it’s A1 in the passport.
- Create a rubric for the term paper.
- Analyze my exam results from this table.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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metadata:
  version: "1.0.0"
  last_updated: "2026-06-10"
  status: active
  pipeline_stage: 3
  related_skills:
    - course-designer
    - lesson-builder
    - teaching-pipeline
---

# Assessment Architect — Instrument Construction Team

Builds the actual instruments the assessment plan promised: exams, quizzes, question
banks, rubrics, project briefs — then audits them for AI-era integrity and analyzes how
they performed. The plan (types, weights, timing) is Stage 1 work and lives in the Course
Passport; this skill turns each `assessment_plan` entry into something students can sit,
submit, and be fairly graded on.

> **Prime rule:** blueprint before items (Pedagogy Foundations §10). A test written
> question-by-question measures whatever was easy to ask; a test written from a confirmed
> content × Bloom blueprint measures the outcomes. No item is drafted before the
> professor confirms the blueprint — ever.

## Quick Start

```
Write the midterm for CS 201 — it's A1 in the passport
给我的数据结构课出一份期末试卷
Build a rubric for the term paper
Design the semester project brief, AI-disclosure tier
我的考试结果在这个表里，帮我做试题分析
Audit my take-home final for AI vulnerability
Close my gradebook — show me what the A/B cutoff choices do
Design the group project with peer assessment
Make the 1.5×-time version of the midterm for a granted accommodation
```

## Modes

| Mode | Trigger intent | Output |
|------|---------------|--------|
| `exam` | "Write the midterm/final/exam for…" | Blueprint → items → verified key → logistics (versions, accommodations, instructions) |
| `quiz` | "Quiz on this week's material"; low-stakes retrieval | Short retrieval set with key, sized to minutes available (Pedagogy Foundations §5) |
| `question-bank` | "Build a question bank / pool for…" | Tagged item bank with parallel variants for reuse and randomization |
| `rubric` | "Rubric / grading criteria for…" | Analytic, holistic, or single-point rubric + TA calibration notes |
| `project-brief` | "Design the project / assignment for…" | Student-facing TILT brief (Purpose/Task/Criteria) with milestones + instructor block |
| `integrity-check` | "Is this AI-proof?"; pipeline Stage 3 audit | AI-resilience audit per `shared/ai_era_integrity.md` — standalone or pipeline, read-only |
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