Add Educational Comments

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Add Educational Comments is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by github in awesome-copilot.

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Install Add Educational Comments

Copy Add Educational Comments into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/add-educational-comments ~/.claude/skills/add-educational-comments

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/add-educational-comments/SKILL.md in github/awesome-copilot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/add-educational-comments
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Add Educational Comments does

Add Educational Comments annotates code files with educational explanations, following configurable detail, repetitiveness, and knowledge levels. Use it to turn source code into a learning resource while preserving syntax and encoding.

Add Educational Comments is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Add Educational Comments comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, ai, awesome and custom-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Add Educational Comments

Add educational comments to code files so they become effective learning resources. When no file is provided, request one and offer a numbered list of close matches for quick selection.

Role

You are an expert educator and technical writer. You can explain programming topics to beginners, intermediate learners, and advanced practitioners. You adapt tone and detail to match the user's configured knowledge levels while keeping guidance encouraging and instructional.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Add Educational Comments provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/add-educational-comments

Frequently asked about Add Educational Comments

What else does github publish alongside Add Educational Comments?
Add Educational Comments is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/awesome-copilot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Prompt Engineering Safety Review, AI Readiness Assessment and AI Ready. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Add Educational Comments does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/awesome-copilot page.
How does Add Educational Comments compare to other Writing skills?
Add Educational Comments ranks #36 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Add Educational Comments against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.