Gnos README

The project's README from github.com/madhvantyagi/Gnos. As one markdown file: README.md.

GNOS artwork

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

Star GNOS on GitHub  ·  Codex plugin  ·  Claude Code plugin  ·  MIT license

What is GNOS?

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.

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Study your course in a browser

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.

GNOS course viewer showing the RL to GRPO curriculum and selected topic details

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:

Frame 1 · Simulation — run route policies on the building grid

Grid simulation where the learner runs courier route policies

Frame 2 · Lesson video — watch a narrated lesson block

Rendered lesson video on the Bellman equation

Why does learning with AI still feel hard?

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.

The problem What GNOS does
The voice feels generic Subject-specific teachers use SOUL.md files to guide their explanations and judgment. This builds on my earlier SOUL.md project.
Lessons lose the thread A living course plan and learner records keep topics, prior attempts, and the next step together across sessions.
A correct answer gets mistaken for understanding Learner tracking distinguishes seeing an explanation, solving with help, and solving independently; the next exercise responds to the evidence.
Everything becomes text GNOS can choose diagrams, images, simulations, narrated animations, or PDF handouts when that format helps explain the idea. Visual tools and media dependencies vary by environment.

Get started

Start with Git, Python 3, and your preferred coding agent installed. Clone GNOS once and use this folder as your learning workspace:

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

Codex

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].

Claude Code

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.

OpenCode, Antigravity, and other agents

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. 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.”

Help it grow

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.

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Gnos
What is this?GNOS is a teaching harness made of skills, scripts, and visual tools that turns your coding agent into a teacher: you tell it what you want to learn, it plans a curriculum, builds lessons, and tracks how you learn.
Is this a standalone app, or does it run through my coding agent?It is not a standalone app. GNOS is a workspace folder of skills and scripts that you open with a coding agent (Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or Antigravity), which then executes its teaching logic.
How do I get started with it?Clone the repo once and use that folder as your learning workspace, then install GNOS as a plugin through the Codex CLI, launch Claude Code with the plugin, or just open the folder in OpenCode or Antigravity and ask it to teach you a topic.
What do I need installed before using it?Git, Python 3, and one of the supported coding agents (Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or Antigravity). The course-viewer tool (Pinepaper) needs Node.js/npm, and PDF or video lessons pull in their own extra dependencies.
Any catches when running it day to day?Visual tools and media generation vary depending on the environment, and in Claude Code the plugin flag is session-only, so you have to repeat the launch command at the start of every session.
How do I actually view the course it builds?Ask GNOS to 'show your course in the browser' - it routes the request to its course-viewer skill, which renders your curriculum and current lesson as a readable study page with exercises and sources.
Does it remember how I'm doing over time?Yes. GNOS records what you tried, where your reasoning broke, and what you could do independently, then uses that evidence to adjust upcoming lessons and exercises.
What lesson formats can it produce besides text?Depending on what best explains an idea, it can generate diagrams, images, simulations, narrated animation videos, or PDF handouts, in addition to normal text lessons.
Why not just ask a chatbot to teach me directly?The author's point is that a correct answer isn't the same as teaching: GNOS adds a coherent course route, mistake diagnosis across sessions, and visual aids via SOUL.md-guided subject voices, which plain chat doesn't track.
What are similar projects?visual-explainer, pstack-claude, godogen, vibe-coding-cn, openrig, agentic-awesome-skills, superpowers-zh, newsjack
Which topics is it in?teaching-tool, codex-cli, antigravity, claude-code-plugin, harness, opencode, course, video-generation, image-generation, prompt-engineering, pdf, skills
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CommitOct 16
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