madhvantyagi/Gnos

Turn your coding agent into a teacher that builds a course around you.

 ·  Codex plugin  ·  Claude Code plugin  ·  Cursor plugin  ·  MIT license

GNOS is a teaching harness made of skills, scripts, and visual tools. Tell it what you want to learn. For a course, it asks how deep you want to go and how much time you have, uses course materials such as university syllabi, textbooks, and documentation to plan a route, then builds the first lesson. Subagents make its lesson blocks; GNOS reviews and joins them before asking if you want to see the course.

As you work, GNOS records what you tried, where your reasoning broke, and what you could do independently. It uses that evidence to adjust upcoming lessons and exercises. The course grows with you.

Just ask GNOS to show your course in the browser. It routes the request to the course-viewer skill, which renders the curriculum and current lesson as a study page. Open a topic to read its lesson, work through exercises, and follow its sources and learning materials.

Browse the curriculum and open a topic to study it in the course viewer.

A true slideshow can't run inside a README, so here is the closest thing — click each frame to expand it:

Frontier models know a great deal, but a good answer is only one part of teaching. Learning a large subject also takes a coherent route, a diagnosis of mistakes, and a way to make abstract ideas visible. GNOS gives a coding agent that structure.

Start with Git, Python 3, and your preferred coding agent installed. Codex, Claude Code, and other agents use a local checkout. Cursor adds the skills from Customize, in the section below.

Clone GNOS once and use this folder as your learning workspace:

git clone https://github.com/madhvantyagi/Gnos.git
cd Gnos

Install the plugin through the Codex CLI:

codex plugin marketplace add madhvantyagi/Gnos --ref main
codex plugin add gnos@gnos

Start a new Codex session in Gnos, or open the folder in the Codex app and start a new task. Ask:

Use GNOS. Read skills/learning-orchestrator/SKILL.md in this workspace and teach me [topic].

From Gnos, launch Claude Code with the plugin:

claude --plugin-dir .

Enter /gnos:learning-orchestrator Teach me [topic]. Repeat the launch command each session; --plugin-dir is session-only.

1. Open Customize.

2. Add this repository:

   https://github.com/madhvantyagi/Gnos
   

3. Open a new agent chat and send:

   Use GNOS. Read skills/learning-orchestrator/SKILL.md and teach me [topic].

That installs the teaching skills. These buttons install the diagram servers:

Excalidraw

Pinepaper

Approve Excalidraw and Pinepaper if Cursor asks. To keep a course in a local folder, clone the repository, open that folder, and send the same message. The folder loads the same skills.

Open the Gnos folder as your workspace. For OpenCode, run opencode from that folder; for Antigravity, open it in the editor. Send:

Read AGENTS.md, then skills/learning-orchestrator/SKILL.md.
Use GNOS to teach me [topic]. Keep courses and progress in this workspace.

This uses GNOS directly from its files; your agent needs local file and terminal access. OpenCode also loads AGENTS.md automatically. Keep the repository together so its teachers, references, and scripts remain available.

Visual tools: Codex and Claude Code load the server definitions in .mcp.json. In Cursor, use the Add to Cursor buttons above, or open the folder so .cursor/mcp.json loads the same servers. For OpenCode or Antigravity, configure those servers using the host's MCP format. Pinepaper needs Node.js/npm; image generation uses your agent's available tools, while PDF and video lessons need their own dependencies.

For a course, share your goal, starting point, depth, and available time. To study the result, ask: “Show my course in the browser.”

GNOS grows through its users. If it helps you learn something hard, share what worked or broke and star the repo so others can find it.