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name: exercise-builder description: Creates hands-on student exercises and practice activities for learning prompt engineering. Use when the user asks to create student activities, practice exercises, or hands-on learning tasks. Generates exercises with examples, solutions, and differentiation. allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Task

Exercise Builder Skill

This skill creates hands-on, engaging exercises that help students practice and master prompt engineering techniques.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user:

• Asks to create student exercises or activities
• Wants practice problems for specific techniques
• Needs hands-on learning tasks
• Requests examples for students to try
• Wants differentiated practice at multiple levels

What This Skill Does

1. Gathers Requirements:

   • Exercise topic or skill to practice
   • Target grade level(s)
   • Time allocation for the exercise
   • Specific learning objective
   • Related class session
   • Difficulty level desired

2. Invokes Subagents to create:

   • prompt-engineer subagent: Designs the prompting technique practice
   • lesson-planner subagent: Structures the exercise format

3. Creates Exercise Content:

   • Clear, student-facing instructions
   • Specific prompting technique to practice
   • Example prompts at different skill levels
   • Success criteria (what good looks like)
   • Solution examples and variations
   • Common mistakes and how to fix them
   • Extension activities for advanced students
   • Scaffolding for struggling students

4. Saves Exercise to:

   • prompt-engineering-curriculum/class-XX/exercises/exercise-name.md

Exercise Design Principles

• Immediately Useful: Use real homework scenarios
• Progressive Difficulty: Start simple, build complexity
• Clear Success Criteria: Students know when they've succeeded
• Real Examples: Authentic student work scenarios
• Iteration-Friendly: Encourage refinement and improvement

Output Structure

Exercises include:

• Learning Objective: What students will practice
• Time Allocation: How long the exercise should take
• Instructions: Step-by-step, student-facing
• Examples: Model prompts and responses
• Success Criteria: What indicates mastery
• Solutions: Multiple correct approaches
• Troubleshooting: Common issues and fixes
• Extensions: Challenges for advanced students
• Differentiation: Support for various skill levels

Example Usage

User: "Create an exercise for students to practice role-based prompting with their math homework"

This skill will generate a complete exercise with instructions, examples, and solutions.