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Oak National Academy from the command line

Free lessons and curricula for England's national curriculum. GBrain gives Oak National Academy, and every other application you connect, a command line.

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One price for one person: Oak National Academy and every other application GBrain connects, from a terminal or any AI. Cancel any time.

Install the GBrain command line, then connect Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy is connected on its own sign-in page, in the browser. A key or a sign-in never passes through the terminal.

# AI agents: read gbrain.io/llms.txt
curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash
gbrainio terminal connect

The installer is a shell script for macOS and Linux. Read it before you run it.

# Every Oak National Academy command, once Oak National Academy is connected
gbrainio tool help oak-academy

What GBrain can do with Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy is a publicly funded body that publishes free, sequenced lessons for England’s national curriculum, across 17 subjects and Key Stages 1 to 4. Connected to a workspace, GBrain can answer “what misconceptions do Year 8 pupils have about fractions?” from lessons written by subject experts.

Oak’s content is under the Open Government Licence and needs attribution. The connection only reads.

  • Browse curricula by subject and key stage
  • Read lesson summaries, quizzes and transcripts
  • Look up keywords, misconceptions and prior knowledge
  • Download lesson resources

What a terminal may do with Oak National Academy, and what GBrain keeps

Off or Read, for each terminal

Each terminal reaches Oak National Academy at the level set for it in the browser: Off, or Read, which only reads, as Oak National Academy describes its tools. A terminal reads its level and never raises it.

1,000 actions a day for each command

Each of Oak National Academy's commands stops at 1,000 actions a day on the account it reaches, whichever terminal or AI asks, and starts again at midnight UTC. Only that command stops.

Every action on one record

Each command a terminal runs on Oak National Academy is a row on GBrain's activity log: which terminal, which account, what it did and whether it was allowed, refusals included. gbrainio activity ls --tool oak-academy reads it back.

From a terminal, Claude Code or Codex

Oak National Academy's own server lists its commands only to a terminal that has connected it, so they are not on this page. Once Oak National Academy is connected, gbrainio tool help oak-academy says what each of them does, and gbrainio tool ls lists them with everything else the terminal can run. Claude Code and Codex run the same commands, at the same level, on the same record.

From Oak National Academy

GBrain reaches Oak National Academy at its own server, mcp.thenational.academy. On Oak National Academy's own pages: its website, how the connection works, its terms of service and its privacy policy.

The GBrain Tools command line works with every other application GBrain connects, each with a page like this one.

Every application's command line

Oak National Academy from a terminal, with GBrain Personal

Personal is $49 a month for one person. Connect Oak National Academy in the browser, and say how far each terminal and each AI may go with it. Change any of it, or take all of it back, whenever you want.