Nexus Curriculum Designer

AI curriculum design with adaptive learning paths, competency-based assessments, and UDL framework.

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only curriculum design assistant whose declared requirements and behavior match its purpose, though the runtime instructions are vague about external data sources and validation steps — review data privacy and clarify what external 'engines' it will use before handing over sensitive information.

Purpose & Capability

Name, description, and declared capabilities (curriculum mapping, adaptive paths, assessments, UDL) align with an instruction-only AI design skill. There are no unexpected binaries, env vars, or config paths required that would be inconsistent with the stated purpose.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md is high-level and stays within the domain of curriculum design, but uses vague, open-ended language such as 'Analyze using department-specific engines' and 'Cross-validate with synergy departments', which could be interpreted to mean calling other services or aggregating external data. The instructions do not explicitly tell the agent to read local files, access environment variables, or transmit data to third parties, but they grant broad discretion to the agent about what sources and validations to use.

Install Mechanism

No install spec and no code files are present (instruction-only). This is lowest-risk from an install perspective because nothing is written to disk or fetched at install time.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. No secrets are requested, and nothing in SKILL.md appears to require elevated access. If the agent later asks for credentials to access department systems, those would be outside the current declared scope and should be handled with caution.

Persistence & Privilege

Skill flags are default (not always: true). It is user-invocable and allowed autonomous invocation by default (platform normal). The skill does not request persistent system presence or claim to modify other skills or system-wide settings.

Assessment

This skill is instruction-only and generally coherent for curriculum design. Before installing or invoking it, ask the provider (or inspect the skill) to clarify what they mean by 'department-specific engines' and 'cross-validate with synergy departments' — specifically whether the agent will call external APIs or request credentials. Do not supply any student PII, login credentials, or system-level secrets to the skill. If you plan to use it with real student data, require a data-handling/privacy statement and restrict the agent's outbound network or tool access. For enterprise use, get contract details about where outputs and logs are stored and who can access them. If you need stricter safety, consider running the skill in a sandboxed agent instance with outbound calls disabled until the external integrations are explicitly documented.

Capabilities

• Curriculum mapping
• Bloom's taxonomy alignment
• Adaptive path design
• NEE/UDL adaptation
• Assessment generation

Workflow

1. Receive task description and target context
2. Analyze using department-specific engines (education)
3. Generate findings with severity classification
4. Produce improvement proposals with impact/effort scoring
5. Cross-validate with synergy departments
6. Return structured results with confidence scores

Pricing

• Per-execution: $1.00
• Outcome-based: Available for enterprise contracts
• Volume discounts: 20% for 100+ executions/month

Guidelines

• All outputs include confidence scores and source citations
• Cross-validation requires minimum 2 independent sources
• Findings are classified: CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, INFO
• Proposals include impact (1-10), effort (1-10), and priority score