Coursera Agent Skills

This repository contains Agent Skills for Coursera MCP-powered learning experiences. Skills are plain Markdown instruction packages that compatible agents can load when a user request matches the skill description.

The repository is intentionally skills-only. It does not include a Claude plugin manifest, Cursor plugin metadata, MCP server manifest, or MCP server code. The MCP app that consumes this repository is responsible for exposing the Coursera tools described by each skill.

Available Skills

learn-with-coursera

learn-with-coursera turns a learner's intent into a guided Coursera experience. It diagnoses the learner's topic, familiarity, and preferred modality, then routes to a course, project, video, or roleplay experience and follows up with a recommended path forward.

Skill package:

skills/learn-with-coursera/
+-- SKILL.md
+-- DIAGNOSE.md
+-- SEARCH-DELIVER.md
`-- PATH-FINDER.md

Install Or Consume

For local agent use, copy the skill folder into the skills directory supported by your agent:

cp -R skills/learn-with-coursera ~/.claude/skills/learn-with-coursera

Other Agent Skills-compatible tools use similar layouts, usually a top-level skills directory containing one folder per skill. The portable unit is the folder that contains SKILL.md and any supporting files beside it.

For an MCP app, keep this repository as the source of truth for skill instructions and package or sync skills/learn-with-coursera/ into the app's skill bundle during release. The MCP app should provide the tools listed below; the skill only describes when and how an agent should call them.

Skill Contract

learn-with-coursera expects the consuming MCP app or agent runtime to provide these tools:

Tool	Purpose
AskUserQuestion	Collect learner choices for diagnosis and roleplay refinement
search_courses	Find Coursera courses for the learner's topic and context
search_videos	Find a targeted short video
search_hands_on_learning	Find guided projects or hands-on learning experiences
coursera_roleplay_practice	Start a live roleplay practice session
get_course_materials	Retrieve curriculum details for a selected course

Tool schemas live in the consuming MCP app. Keep the skill prose aligned with those schemas when tool names, parameter names, or result shapes change.

Validation

Run the repository validator before publishing changes:

node scripts/validate-skills.mjs

The validator checks that every direct child of skills/ is a skill package, that each package has a valid SKILL.md frontmatter block, and that any Markdown files referenced from SKILL.md exist beside it.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the editing checklist and validation expectations.