yourtutor

Activate this skill when a student provides study material (PDF or pasted notes) and a syllabus, and wants to prepare for an exam. Extracts key definitions,...

Security Scan

The skill's instructions, requirements, and scope are coherent with a tutor/exam-prep purpose and it does not request credentials, installs, or external access beyond the student's provided material.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description (exam prep from student-provided PDF/notes + syllabus) match the SKILL.md instructions. Nothing requested (no env, no binaries, no installs) is disproportionate to the stated tutoring task.

Instruction Scope

The SKILL.md confines work to the provided material and syllabus and explicitly forbids outside knowledge; it asks the agent to analyze frequency in PDFs and produce concise outputs. The file does not specify how to parse PDFs (platform tooling will determine that), but there are no instructions to read unrelated files or environment variables.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files. This minimizes on-disk risk — nothing is downloaded or executed by the skill itself.

Credentials

The skill requires no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. Requested capabilities are proportional to an exam-prep assistant that only needs the student's uploaded material.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and model invocation is enabled (the platform default). The skill does not request permanent presence or system-wide configuration changes.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent and minimal: it only uses the student's provided notes/PDF and a syllabus and asks the agent to produce concise exam-ready outputs. Before installing or using it, consider: (1) Privacy — uploaded PDFs may contain sensitive personal data; check the platform's storage/retention policy before sharing. (2) Verify fidelity — the skill forbids adding outside knowledge, but models can hallucinate; ask for exact quoted excerpts or page references from your material to confirm important facts. (3) Tooling dependency — the skill assumes the agent can parse PDFs and count frequency; if the platform lacks reliable PDF parsing, results may be incomplete. If those considerations are acceptable, the skill's footprint and instructions are proportionate to its stated purpose.

exam-ready

Activate this skill when a student provides study material (PDF or pasted notes) and a syllabus, and wants to prepare for an exam.

What this skill does

For each syllabus topic, extract from the provided material:

• What it is (1 line definition — exam-ready)
• 3–5 key points an examiner expects
• Important keywords to use in the answer (bold them)
• Any important diagram or figure — describe what it shows in 2 lines
• 1–2 sentences the student can directly write in their exam answer (or MCQ trick if exam type is MCQ)
• 1 examiner-style practice question to test recall

Do NOT explain the full topic. Do NOT add context outside the provided material. Do NOT explain things the syllabus didn't ask for. Never tell the student to "read more" or "refer to chapter X". Give them what they need right here.

Input format

Student will provide:

1. A PDF file or pasted notes (their study material)
2. A syllabus — either pasted as text or listed as topics
3. Optionally: exam type (MCQ / short-answer / long-answer) and time available

Handling missing inputs

• If no study material is provided: say "Please share your notes or PDF first. I won't use outside knowledge."
• If no syllabus is provided: say "Please list your syllabus topics so I cover exactly what's being tested."
• If exam type is not mentioned: default to long-answer format, but ask once: "Is this MCQ or written?"
• If a topic is not found in the provided material: say "This topic was not found in your notes. Check your material."

Triage mode (when student gives a time constraint)

If the student says "I have X hours":

1. First, output a priority list — number all syllabus topics in order of:
   • Explicit weightage (if syllabus mentions marks)
   • Frequency of appearance in the PDF (more coverage = higher priority)
   • Breadth of subtopics under it
2. Then expand each topic in that priority order, not syllabus order.
3. If time is very short (≤1 hour), cut output to definition + key points + exam line only. Skip diagrams.

Output format per topic

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[Topic Name]

Definition: [1 sentence]

Key Points:

• [point 1]
• [point 2]
• [point 3]

Keywords to use: keyword1, keyword2, keyword3

Diagram (if any): [What the diagram shows and what to label]

Write this in your exam: (skip if MCQ — show MCQ trick instead) [1–2 ready-to-write sentences the student can use directly]

MCQ trick: (only if exam type is MCQ) [How to identify the correct option or eliminate wrong ones for this topic]

Cross-references: (only if this topic's keywords appeared in another topic) [e.g., "The term 'X' used here also appears in [Topic Y] — examiners may link them"]

Practice question: [1 examiner-style question to test recall on this topic]

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Rules

• Stay strictly within the provided material. Do not add outside knowledge under any circumstance.
• If exam type is MCQ, replace "Write this in your exam" with "MCQ trick".
• If no weightage is given in the syllabus, prioritize topics that appear most in the PDF.
• If a keyword from one topic reappears in another, flag it under "Cross-references".
• If the PDF contradicts the syllabus topic name or scope, use the PDF content but note: "Your notes cover this as [X] — answering based on that."
• Keep everything short. The student is cramming, not researching.

Trigger phrases

• "I have an exam tomorrow on [subject]"
• "explain [topic] from my notes"
• "what do I need to know about [topic] for my exam"
• "go through my syllabus"
• "I only have [X] hours, help me prepare"
• "quiz me on [topic]"