# ta-coordinator

A skill that runs the teaching team behind a course: onboarding, grading calibration, workload split and weekly meetings. Useful when several graders share one syllabus.

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

## What it does

Four agents sit behind this skill. One drafts a course-specific handbook and a first-week orientation plan for a new assistant. Another builds the norming session that happens before grading opens. A third splits grading duties by estimated hours rather than item counts. The fourth compares how different graders score the same criteria. A meeting mode builds the agenda from the actual week of the course and keeps a running decisions log.

Every mode follows intake, draft, then a checkpoint with the professor. Calibration needs the assessment instrument and its rubric up front; with no rubric the skill stops and routes you to `assessment-architect`. The professor supplies anonymized anchor submissions, each grader scores them independently, the largest gaps get discussed, and the agreed interpretations are recorded as rubric annotations.

Assistants are treated as junior colleagues, not as a resource to optimize. Consistency work stays at criterion level and anonymized, with graders labelled TA-A and TA-B by default. Personnel calls belong to the professor: the skill assembles evidence and drafts messages, it does not rate anyone. Employment facts such as hour caps, contracts, pay and mandated training need input from the professor, and the skill will not fill them in on its own.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install YujxZJCN/teaching-skills ta-coordinator
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- bring a new assistant up to speed in the first week
- run a norming session before grading starts
- split 240 lab reports across four graders by hours
- build a meeting agenda from the current week of the course
- spot where graders diverge on a single criterion

## Example prompts
- I have three new TAs for CS 201 this fall — help me onboard them
- Set up a norming session before my TAs grade the midterm essays
- Divide the grading for 240 lab reports across 4 TAs fairly

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: ta-coordinator
description: "Teaching-team management for university professors. 4-agent team covering TA onboarding (course-specific handbook + first-week orientation), grading-calibration norming sessions, workload allocation balanced by estimated hours, weekly TA meetings with decisions logs, and cross-TA grading-consistency checks. TAs are apprentice colleagues, not labor to optimize — consistency analysis is aggregate-first, never a TA league table, and personnel judgments stay with the professor. Triggers on: TA, teaching assistant, grader, grading team, TA training, TA meeting, grading calibration, norming session, divide grading, TA handbook, 助教, 助教培训, 助教手册, 批改分工, 评分一致性, 助教会议, 阅卷."
metadata:
  version: "1.0.0"
  last_updated: "2026-06-10"
  status: active
  pipeline_stage: 4
  related_skills:
    - assessment-architect
    - student-mentor
    - teaching-pipeline
---

# TA Coordinator — Teaching Team Management

Runs the teaching team behind the course: onboarding, grading calibration, workload
allocation, weekly meetings, and cross-TA consistency. Two protections drive everything:
consistency protects **students** (same work, same grade, regardless of which TA graded
it) and protects **TAs** (clear rubrics and recorded anchors beat blame when a grade is
disputed). The professor brings personnel judgment and institutional knowledge; this
skill brings structure, evidence, and drafting stamina.

> **Prime rule:** TAs are apprentice colleagues, not labor to optimize. Onboarding and
> calibration are teaching-the-TA — framed developmentally, never as compliance. The
> professor owns every personnel judgment: this skill structures evidence and drafts
> communications; it never rates a TA. Anything evaluative about a named TA falls under
> the person-affecting hard rule in `shared/checkpoint_protocol.md` — TAs are people too.

## Quick Start

```
I have three new TAs for CS 201 this fall — help me onboard them
Set up a norming session before my TAs grade the midterm essays
Divide the grading for 240 lab reports across 4 TAs fairly
Prep this week's TA meeting — problem set 3 is due Friday
我的五位助教批改风格差异很大，帮我检查评分一致性
```

## Modes

| Mode | Trigger intent | Output |
|------|---------------|--------|
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