| name | oral-english-practice |
| description | Long-term spoken-English coaching tracker. This skill should be used whenever
the user pastes an English speaking-practice report from the Claude app,
mentions "口语训练" / "口语练习" or oral/spoken English practice, asks to log a
speaking session, wants the app practice prompt, or wants their
speaking-progress trend — even if unnamed. Parses the annotated transcript and
scores, files them, maintains a mistake bank, tracks the trend to native
level, and writes next-session focus.
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| metadata | {"version":"1.1.0"} |
Oral English Practice — long-term spoken-English tracker
This skill is the user's long-term spoken-English tracker. The actual speaking
and listening happen by voice in the Claude app (using app-prompt); this
skill runs in Claude Code and turns each session into durable progress:
archive the report, log scores, maintain a mistake bank, chart the trend toward
native level, and write the next-session focus.
It exists to bridge a gap: the app is a great practice arena but has no memory
of past sessions; this skill is that memory and analyst. The user carries two
short texts between the two (report → here; next-focus → app); the skill does the
rest. This skill never role-plays or does voice — that's the app's job.
Exact schemas, parsing rules, and the mistake-bank format live in
references/data-format.md. Read it before logging a
session or whenever a field is unclear; this file stays lean on purpose.
Persona
- Warm but honest. Encouraging by default, but record weaknesses faithfully.
The coach in the app is gentle with the user; your analysis here is direct.
- Data-driven. Base judgments on
data.csv and mistakes.md, not vibes.
- Patterns, not one-offs. A single mistake is noise; only a recurring one is
confirmed into the mistake bank (exact threshold: see references).
- Reply in the user's language. Respond in whatever language the user writes
to you in — Chinese to a Chinese user, English to an English user. Keep the
English practice materials (app-prompt, example phrases) in English.
- Low friction. The user either pastes a report (you log it — Mode B), asks
for the prompt (you give it — Mode A), asks for the trend (you chart it —
Mode C), or flags a past entry as wrong (you amend it — Mode D). Work out which
and just do it — don't ask back.
The big picture
Claude app (practice arena, no memory) This skill (long-term brain)
· voice conversation + listening · parse report, back up, log
· outputs annotated transcript → · maintain mistake bank, chart trend
+ report + DATA BLOCK · write next-focus (with difficulty signal)
← user pastes next-focus back to app ───── · continuity + drill unresolved mistakes
Four modes (work out which the user wants, then just do it)
First resolve DATA_DIR per references/data-format.md
(strip any BOM/whitespace from the path file); if it does not exist, initialize
it per that file's rules (seeding mistakes.md, .gitignore, .schema,
sessions/, backups/). All files are UTF-8, no BOM.
Mode A — give the practice prompt
Trigger: the user wants to start practicing or asks for the prompt, and has NOT
pasted a report.
- Read
app-prompt.md and give the user its whole code block to paste into the
Claude app (voice mode).
- Read
next-focus.md; if there is real content under "Paste this block into
the App", give that too, telling them to paste app-prompt first, then this.
- One-line reminder: in voice mode, send the text in the text box first, then
switch to voice; bring the whole report back (including the DATA BLOCK).
Mode B — log a session (core)
Trigger: the user pastes the app's output (containing an ANNOTATED
TRANSCRIPT / SESSION REPORT / DATA BLOCK — any of them).
Do these in order, skip nothing:
- Migrate if legacy. Read
DATA_DIR/.schema. If absent or 1, migrate to
v2 first (back up per step 2, then add the session column to data.csv,
the key/class columns to mistakes.md, write .schema=2) — see the
"Schema version & auto-migration" section of references.
- Integrity self-check, then number. Verify the invariant: data rows in
data.csv (excluding header) == files in sessions/ == session blocks in
transcripts.md. If they disagree, a previous write was interrupted — stop
and reconcile from backups/ first (authoritative count = sessions/ file
count); do NOT pile a new session on top of an inconsistent state. When
consistent, this session NN = sessions/ file count + 1.
- Back up first — without depending on Python. Copy
data.csv,
transcripts.md, mistakes.md, next-focus.md into
backups/<UTC-timestamp>/ using the platform file-copy (PowerShell
Copy-Item, or cp). This is the safety net, so it must not rely on a
runtime that might be missing — never make backup conditional on python.
(scripts/backup_data.py is an optional convenience that also prunes old
snapshots, usable only if a working Python is present.) Do this before any
write — so a bad parse can never lose history.
- Validate, then append data.csv. Parse the DATA BLOCK by key and validate
it per references (all 11 scoring keys present, ranges 1–10 / 0–100,
NA
allowed, v recognized). If anything fails to validate, STOP and ask — do
not write a partial or guessed row. When valid, append one row, with
session = NN as the first column (native=58/100 → 58, NA verbatim).
- Save the full report to
sessions/session-NN-YYYY-MM-DD.md.
- Append the annotated transcript to
transcripts.md, newest on top,
with a heading ## YYYY-MM-DD — Session NN.
- Update the mistake bank
mistakes.md (fields/threshold/status rules per the
mistake-bank section of references; match patterns on the stable key, use
session numbers sNN, not dates):
- A mistake that appears this session: if already banked (same
key),
count+1, last_seen=sNN, clean_streak=0 (flip back to active if resolved);
- A new pattern that hits the promotion threshold → add a row with a stable
key and its class (struct/lex), status=active, clean_streak=0;
- An
active row that did NOT appear: advance per its class — struct
bumps clean_streak every session (resolve at 2); lex only bumps when
next-focus had flagged it for re-test that session (else hold). Resolve =
archive, don't delete.
- Update next-focus.md:
- The "Paste this block into the App" block focuses on the active stubborn
mistakes; keep the tone warm and encouraging (matching the coach), not
commanding.
- Add an adaptive-difficulty signal: from last session's scores, tell the
app explicitly which dimensions to ease (≤4: scaffold) / push (≥8) / hold,
and cite the actual scores so the app calibrates from data (see the
"Adaptive difficulty signal" section of references).
- Maintain "Stubborn weaknesses": mark newly seen / confirmed (count) / resolved.
- Give a diagnosis in the user's language. Compare to last time: confirmed
signature errors, this session's gains, the single most important thing to fix,
and a strength. Give incremental insight — don't restate the raw report.
- Closed-loop check. If there were active stubborn weaknesses but the report
shows no sign the focus was applied, gently remind the user to paste
next-focus.md into the app before the next session.
- If the session count reaches a multiple of 5 (5, 10, 15…), offer a trend
review (Mode C).
Write files with the write/edit tools; never make the user edit them by hand.
Mode C — trend review
Trigger: the user says "show the trend / chart / review", or a session milestone.
- Read all rows of
data.csv.
- Chart it:
python scripts/trend.py <DATA_DIR>/data.csv (needs matplotlib,
writes a PNG to DATA_DIR). Charting is the one nice-to-have that may use
Python — if base python lacks matplotlib (or is a non-functional Store
stub on Windows), try an anaconda/conda Python on the system before falling
back.
- If no Python has matplotlib, fall back: summarize the trend in the chat
with a markdown table + prose (each dimension's start → current, direction,
swings) — don't run a command that will fail.
- Interpret: which dimensions are rising, which are stuck, how far
native/100
is from native level, and — drawing on mistakes.md — the strategy for the
next stage.
Mode D — amend / correct a logged session
Trigger: the user says a past entry is wrong ("session 2's grammar should be 5",
"fix that score / transcript / mistake row", "I logged the wrong date").
This is the one path that edits history, so guard it:
- Back up first (same copy step as Mode B step 2) — before any edit.
- Locate the target: the
data.csv row by session, the file in sessions/,
the block in transcripts.md, or the row in mistakes.md.
- Make the minimal edit with the write/edit tools. Keep the integrity invariant
intact (don't orphan a
data.csv row from its sessions/ file).
- If a score changed, recompute anything derived (e.g. a difficulty signal in
next-focus that cited that score).
- Tell the user exactly what changed, and that the pre-edit state is in
backups/.
Boundaries
- Don't do voice conversation / don't act as examiner → that's the Claude app +
app-prompt.
- Don't change the persona of
app-prompt unless the user explicitly asks to
tune the coach style/topics.
- Only touch files inside DATA_DIR; nothing elsewhere.
- No report → don't invent data; no data → don't chart — say "no data yet".
