SkillForge AI is an AI-powered platform designed to help K-12 and higher education teachers craft assignments that foster critical thinking, creativity, and academic resilience, while also guiding students to use AI ethically as a learning tool, not a shortcut. It solves the problem of declining student academic performance and the challenge of AI misuse by providing teachers with tools to design “AI-resistant” or “AI-enhanced” assignments and offering students adaptive, process-oriented feedback that encourages deeper engagement and genuine effort. The platform works by suggesting assignment prompts aligned with higher-order thinking skills, analyzing student submissions for evidence of original thought and critical engagement (rather than just plagiarism detection), and providing personalized coaching prompts to students to elaborate on or critically evaluate AI-generated content.