lca-deepagents — tutor skill for LangChain Academy's Deep Agents
A skill that teaches the Deep Agents course from LangChain Academy: walks you through each lesson, stops to check your understanding at key moments, and adapts to how often you want to be questioned.
npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a claude-codeWhat lca-deepagents does
Sessions open with a menu, so you pick the format: the entire course, one lesson, a lab, a quiz, a free-form question, or help setting up your environment. After that the skill runs the chosen mode itself and moves through the curriculum in order until you ask for something else. Lesson material lives in references/<current-lesson>.md, and it reads the relevant file before teaching.
Once per session it asks how often you want check-ins — frequent, only at important points, or rarely. When your client has a structured picker such as AskUserQuestion, the mode menu goes through it; otherwise you get a plain-text list. Picking a module stays free text either way: there are too many lessons for a four-option picker, so you name the module by ID or topic.
A few steps skip the usual flow. m0.1-setup-python jumps straight into setup, and m1.9-practice plus m5.3-the-sales-assistant run as walkthroughs, with no calibration question and no check-ins. A bare lesson ID without a verb, like m2.3, is not taken as an instruction — the skill folds it into the menu instead of guessing.
What it helps with
- work through the Deep Agents curriculum without planning it yourself
- study a single lesson and confirm you grasped the mental model
- run the lab attached to a chosen module
- test yourself with a quiz on one lesson
- set up the environment following module 0.1
Example prompts for the agent
- Quiz me on lesson m1.3
- Walk me through the lab for m2.2
- I have a question about how the tools work
How to install lca-deepagents
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a claude-code2Manually: put the files in place
~/.claude/skills/lca-deepagents/SKILL.mdCopy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/lca-deepagents/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a codex2Manually: put the files in place
.agents/skills/lca-deepagents/SKILL.mdFor all projects use ~/.agents/skills/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a cursor2Manually: put the files in place
.cursor/skills/lca-deepagents/SKILL.mdCursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/
1GitHub CLI
gh skill install langchain-ai/lca-tutors lca-deepagents2Manually: put the files in place
.github/skills/lca-deepagents/SKILL.md1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a gemini-cli2Platform CLI
gemini skills install https://github.com/langchain-ai/lca-tutors --path lca-deepagentsManually: put the files in place
.devin/skills/lca-deepagents/SKILL.mdThe legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works
Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a opencodeClaude.ai
Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills
Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways
Questions about lca-deepagents
How do I install lca-deepagents in Claude Code?
Run npx skills add langchain-ai/lca-tutors --skill lca-deepagents -a claude-code. The skill lands at ~/.claude/skills/lca-deepagents/SKILL.md.
What does lca-deepagents do?
It runs a teaching session for the Deep Agents course: presents material, talks it through with you, and checks understanding where it matters.
Do I have to follow the curriculum in order?
No. Choose a mode from the menu, then name the module by ID or topic; the skill lists the lessons and starts the one you picked.
