--- title: "nurture" description: "Open-source education plugin with formative assessment and student feedback skills for AI agents: feedback that moves learners forward, assessment design, hinge questions, success criteria, peer and self-assessment, and " canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/nurture last-updated: 2026-10-06 --- # nurture Open-source education plugin with formative assessment and student feedback skills for AI agents: feedback that moves learners forward, assessment design, hinge questions, success criteria, peer and self-assessment, and responsive analysis of student work. - Slug: nurture - Publisher: Nurture - Repository: https://github.com/goNurture/agent-plugin - Manifest: plugin.json - Version: 0.1.0 - Category (editorial): other - Skills: 8 (analysing-student-work, designing-assessments, eliciting-evidence, formative-assessment, giving-feedback, hinge-questions, peer-and-self-assessment, success-criteria) - MCP servers: 1 (nurture-signal) - Stars: 0 - Repository created: 2026-08-07 - Repository last pushed: 2026-08-22 - Publisher type: Organization - Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/nurture - Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json ## What nurture does, in the publisher's words An open-source education Agent Plugin that gives an AI agent the pedagogy to be useful to teachers: how to deliver actionable student feedback, build formative assessments that produce a decision rather than a score, design hinge questions and success criteria, and analyse a class set to know what to teach next. Grounded throughout in Dylan Wiliam's work on formative assessment, Inside the Black Box (Black & Wiliam, 1998), Embedded Formative Assessment (2011/2018) and Embedding Formative Assessment (Wiliam & Leahy, 2015). Ask a general-purpose model to "give feedback on this essay" and you get four hundred fluent words that praise the student, correct every error, and leave them with nothing to do. That is not a small quality problem, Kluger & DeNisi's meta-analysis found feedback interventions lowered performance in 38% of cases, mostly when attention moved from the task to the self. The default behaviour is the failure mode. From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/goNurture/agent-plugin/HEAD/README.md ## Skills - analysing-student-work: Read this when you have more than one learner's work in front of you and the question is what to do about it. Use it when given a class set, assignment or quiz results, a mark sheet or response CSV, or when asked what a class got wrong, which items were poor, who needs intervention, or what to teac… - designing-assessments: Read this before generating any quiz, test, task or item, assessment written item-first drifts to recall and produces a score nobody can act on. Use it when asked to build a quiz, test, exam paper, question set, retrieval practice or knowledge check, to write or fix items and distractors, or to ju… - eliciting-evidence: Read this when the question is how to find out what a class is thinking during a lesson, rather than what to ask them. Use it when asked to improve questioning, check understanding mid-lesson, run a discussion, involve quieter students, or design an exit ticket or do-now, and when a teacher says t… - formative-assessment: Read this when a teaching request touches assessment, feedback, or checking understanding, and you need to know which of the eight Nurture skills applies. Use it when the request is broad ("help me plan this unit", "how do I know they've got it?"), spans several skills, or when the user asks about… - giving-feedback: Read this before writing any comment, mark, or response on a piece of student work, your default behaviour here is the documented failure mode. Use it when asked to mark, comment on, respond to or improve feedback on student work, a submission, or a class set, and when designing a marking or feedb… - hinge-questions: Read this whenever a teacher needs to know, mid-lesson, whether the class has got it. Use it when asked for a quick check for understanding, a diagnostic or multiple-choice question, an exit-ticket question, or when someone needs to decide between moving on and reteaching. It produces a single item… - peer-and-self-assessment: Read this when learners are going to assess work, their own or each other's, because unstructured peer feedback reliably degrades into praise and personal comment. Use it when asked about peer review, peer marking, self-assessment, reflection prompts, metacognition or student ownership, and when… - success-criteria: Read this when a task needs a stated standard, feedback, peer assessment and self-assessment all fail silently without one. Use it when asked for learning objectives, lesson aims, WALT/WILF, success criteria, a rubric or mark scheme for learners, or a checklist for a task, and when feedback has no… Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized. ## MCP servers - nurture-signal: transport: streamable-http; url: https://signal.gonurture.com/mcp Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.