# Productive Failure Desirable Difficulty Designer

> Redesign a direct instruction sequence to include productive struggle before the explanation phase. Use when teaching concepts that benefit from failure-first approaches.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-garethmanning-productive-failure-desirable-difficulty-designer
- tashan id: skill:GarethManning/productive-failure-desirable-difficulty-designer
- Source: https://github.com/GarethManning/claude-education-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 78.0
- Freshness: 90.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r productive-failure-desirable-difficulty-designer ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-14 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.