Scientific Training Development Skills

A skills-only plugin for designing, reviewing, and editing scientific-computing training material. It uses the portable Agent Plugins layout and does not require an MCP server.

Included skills

Skill	Purpose
`jupyter-notebook-editing`	Create, edit, or restructure instructional Jupyter notebooks while preserving a navigable, collapsible section structure. Includes a notebook structure validator.
`scientific-computing-training-design-and-review`	Design or review concept-led scientific-computing training for realistic scope, sound learning objectives, meaningful exercises, and participant value.

Install in Codex

From GitHub

Add this repository as a plugin marketplace:

codex plugin marketplace add gjbex/scientific-training-development-skills

Then start Codex, run /plugins, select Scientific Training Development Skills, and install Scientific Training Development Skills. Start a new chat after installation so the skills are discovered.

To update an existing marketplace checkout:

codex plugin marketplace upgrade scientific-training-development-skills

From a local checkout

For development or testing, add the repository directory directly:

codex plugin marketplace add /absolute/path/to/scientific-training-development-skills

Restart the ChatGPT desktop app if you use Codex there, then install the plugin from /plugins. The marketplace entry points at the repository root, so keep the portable plugin.json and skills/ directory there.

Install only the skills

If plugin marketplaces are unavailable, copy the individual skill directories into the Codex skills directory:

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R skills/jupyter-notebook-editing ~/.codex/skills/
cp -R skills/scientific-computing-training-design-and-review ~/.codex/skills/

Restart Codex or start a new chat after copying them.

Install in other agentic frameworks

Frameworks that support the portable Agent Plugins specification can install this repository as a plugin. Point the framework at the repository root, which contains plugin.json and the conventional skills/ directory.

Frameworks that support Agent Skills but not plugin manifests can install the two directories under skills/ into their configured skills directory. Preserve each directory intact: SKILL.md may refer to files in agents/, references/, or scripts/ by relative path.

The agents/openai.yaml files provide Codex-specific display metadata. Other hosts may ignore them; the operational instructions remain in each SKILL.md. Exact installation commands and skill-discovery behavior vary by framework, so consult the host's documentation rather than assuming Codex marketplace commands are portable.

Repository layout

.
|-- plugin.json
|-- .agents/plugins/marketplace.json
`-- skills/
    |-- jupyter-notebook-editing/
    `-- scientific-computing-training-design-and-review/

Development notes

Keep the plugin skills-only unless a real tool dependency justifies adding an MCP server.
Validate both SKILL.md files after changing their frontmatter or directory names.

Run the notebook validator's help command as a quick smoke test:

python3 skills/jupyter-notebook-editing/scripts/check_notebook_structure.py --help

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE. Attribution information is provided in NOTICE.