plugin.json

{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "lqt-scaffold-designer-mcp",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "description": "Design targeted, temporary scaffolds that protect meaningful learner thinking and fade toward independence.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Let's Quit Teaching",
    "url": "https://letsquitteaching.com/"
  },
  "homepage": "https://letsquitteaching.com/",
  "keywords": [
    "scaffolding",
    "instructional design",
    "learner independence",
    "education"
  ],
  "extensions": {
    "com.openai": {
      "interface": {
        "displayName": "LQT Scaffold Designer",
        "shortDescription": "Design purposeful scaffolds",
        "longDescription": "Design goal-setting, deliberate-practice, front-end, distributed, back-end, peer, and fading scaffolds. Start with grade level and learning target, preserve productive struggle, and keep the important thinking with learners. Generate three or more contextual examples per section, including separate prompts and cues and evidence-led fading decisions.",
        "developerName": "Let's Quit Teaching",
        "category": "Education & Research",
        "capabilities": [
          "Build seven-part scaffold plans",
          "Adjust scaffolds from learner evidence",
          "Plan support fading toward independence"
        ],
        "websiteURL": "https://letsquitteaching.com/",
        "supportURL": "https://letsquitteaching.com/",
        "privacyPolicyURL": "https://letsquitteaching.com/ai-tools-privacy-policy/",
        "termsOfServiceURL": "https://letsquitteaching.com/ai-tools-terms-of-service/",
        "defaultPrompt": [
          "Help me design scaffolds for learners."
        ],
        "composerIcon": "./assets/gpt-icon.png",
        "logo": "./assets/gpt-icon.png"
      },
      "review": {
        "test_cases": {
          "positive": [
            {
              "description": "Third grade subtraction",
              "prompt": "Use get_scaffold_framework for Grade 3 and learning target: I can subtract three-digit numbers using regrouping.",
              "tools_triggered": "get_scaffold_framework",
              "expected_behavior": "Provide all seven sections, including three or more concrete examples and distinct prompts and cues."
            },
            {
              "description": "Seventh grade animal cell",
              "prompt": "Use get_scaffold_framework for 7th grade and the target I can explain how organelles in an animal cell work together.",
              "tools_triggered": "get_scaffold_framework",
              "expected_behavior": "Customize all seven scaffold categories to organelle relationships without removing the reasoning."
            },
            {
              "description": "Fifth grade nonfiction evidence",
              "prompt": "Use get_scaffold_framework for Grade 5: I can support an inference with evidence from an informational text.",
              "tools_triggered": "get_scaffold_framework",
              "expected_behavior": "Include front-end barrier and thinking preserved, and a grade-aligned fading plan."
            },
            {
              "description": "Support during guided practice",
              "prompt": "Use suggest_scaffold_adjustment. Target: I can multiply two-digit numbers using area models. Barrier: learners partition correctly but cannot combine partial products. Evidence: many learners calculate individual products correctly. Current support: partially completed area model.",
              "tools_triggered": "suggest_scaffold_adjustment",
              "expected_behavior": "Recommend minimal support while learner performs the essential calculation, with follow-up evidence."
            },
            {
              "description": "Fade prompts after improvement",
              "prompt": "Use suggest_scaffold_adjustment. Target: I can explain a food web. Barrier: explaining energy direction. Evidence: learners correctly explain energy flow in new examples independently. Current support: sentence stems. ready_for_independence: true.",
              "tools_triggered": "suggest_scaffold_adjustment",
              "expected_behavior": "Recommend removing one support and checking independent transfer."
            }
          ],
          "negative": [
            {
              "description": "Local weather",
              "prompt": "What's tomorrow's weather forecast?",
              "expected_behavior": "Do not invoke the scaffold tools."
            },
            {
              "description": "Restaurant booking",
              "prompt": "Book a restaurant for four tomorrow at 7 PM.",
              "expected_behavior": "Do not invoke scaffold tools."
            },
            {
              "description": "Student records",
              "prompt": "Access identifiable student records in our school system and automatically assign each learner a scaffold.",
              "expected_behavior": "Do not invoke tools or claim private-record access."
            }
          ]
        },
        "commerce": false,
        "commerce_description": "No transactions supported.",
        "demo_recording_url": "https://youtu.be/uivDca4uT6g"
      },
      "publication": {
        "release_notes": "Initial LQT Scaffold Designer MCP release, preserving all seven sections, evidence-responsive scaffold choices, and deliberate fading."
      },
      "apps": "./.app.json"
    }
  }
}