# student-mentor

Draft feedback, student emails, recommendation letters, and mentoring plans with this teaching-support skill. Use it for office-hour prep or difficult student conversations.

- 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/student-mentor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/student-mentor

## What it does

The skill helps instructors comment on individual submissions or batches, plan outreach to students who are falling behind, and draft recommendation letters from the professor’s intake answers. It also structures replies about grade disputes and extension requests, prepares office-hour materials, and builds advising plans.

Separate agents handle feedback, intervention, recommendations, communication, mentoring, and suspected integrity cases. Outputs stay drafts, and evaluative claims must come from material the professor supplied. The professor checks factual claims before sending. For integrity concerns, the skill records evidence and routes the case through the institution’s process; it does not decide guilt or sanctions.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install YujxZJCN/teaching-skills student-mentor
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill student-mentor -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/student-mentor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write structured comments on student work
- plan outreach to a student who has stopped attending
- draft a recommendation from the professor’s answers
- prepare a response to a grade dispute
- map expectations and milestones for a new advisee

## Example prompts
- Draft feedback on this submission using the rubric and my notes.
- A student has missed assignments and stopped attending class. Prepare an outreach plan and email draft.
- Help me prepare a neutral meeting invitation for a suspected academic-integrity case.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: student-mentor
description: "During-semester student support for university professors. 5-agent team covering feedback on student work (Hattie & Timperley structured, single or batch), struggling-student intervention plans, recommendation letters with bias-aware language checks, difficult student communications, office-hours preparation, and grad-student/advisee mentoring plans. Every output affects an identifiable person — drafts only, evidence-bound, professor verifies before sending. Triggers on: feedback on student work, grade comments, struggling student, recommendation letter, reference letter, student email, office hours, advising, mentoring, thesis student, difficult conversation, 学生反馈, 批改, 评语, 推荐信, 学生邮件, 答疑, 指导学生, 研究生指导, 师生沟通."
metadata:
  version: "1.0.0"
  last_updated: "2026-06-10"
  status: active
  pipeline_stage: 4
  related_skills:
    - assessment-architect
    - teaching-reflector
    - teaching-pipeline
---

# Student Mentor — During-Semester Support Team

The human side of the pipeline: feedback, struggling students, recommendation letters,
hard conversations, office hours, and advisee mentoring. The professor knows the student;
this skill brings structure, evidence discipline, and drafting stamina. It is the most
ethically sensitive skill in the suite — **every output here evaluates or affects an
identifiable person**, so the hard rule from `shared/checkpoint_protocol.md` governs
everything below.

> **Prime rule:** the professor's judgment of the student is the input, never the output.
> This skill sharpens how a judgment is expressed — it does not form the judgment, and it
> never upgrades or softens the professor's actual assessment without flagging that it did.

## Quick Start

```
Help me write feedback on these 30 essay submissions — here's the rubric and my margin notes
A student has missed three assignments and stopped coming to class. Help me reach out.
I need a recommendation letter for a student applying to PhD programs, due in two weeks
帮我回复一封学生质疑成绩的邮件
Set up a mentoring expectations document for my new PhD student
```

## Modes

| Mode | Trigger intent | Output |
|------|---------------|--------|
| `feedback` | "Write comments on this work" — single submission or a batch | Structured comments per Hattie & Timperley (goal → status → next step); batch runs build a comment bank from recurring patterns |
| `struggling-student` | A student is missing work, sliding, disengaging | Evidence-based intervention plan + outreach email draft from `templates/intervention_outreach_template.md` |
| `recommendation-letter` | "Write a recommendation / reference letter" | Intake interview → letter draft grounded only in intake answers, with bias-language check |
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