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Everything you can say

The tutor is routed by what you say, not by commands. These are the phrases each skill listens for.

Everything you can say

You rarely type a skill's name. Say the phrase, or something close to it, and the tutor picks the skill. Words in angle brackets are yours to fill in: <env> is the name of one of your envs, <topic> is anything you want to learn.

Starting and stopping​

You sayWhat happensSkill
I want to learn <topic> / new envFive questions, then a new env under envs/yat:new-env
let's do <env> / <env> timeA learning session on that envyat:learn
what should I do today / plan my dayNames today's block from your envs' schedulesyat:session
resume / where was IContinues from your bookmark with no recapyat:session
pause / checkpoint / save my spotSaves your spot; checkpoint keeps goingyat:session
statusOne line: env, current unit, next moveyat:session
meditateReflects two or three of your own lines back before you wrap upyat:session
wrap up / done for todaySaves, journals the session, ticks the swim laneyat:session
swim laneRefreshes the view of where every env standsyat:session

Practice and review​

You sayWhat happensSkill
quiz me / pop quizFive to eight low-stakes questions on what you've coveredyat:grill
test me / test timeAn exam-style test; feedback only once every answer is inyat:grill
give me an assignment / grade my assignmentOne take-home task with acceptance criteria, graded against themyat:grill
review what's due / show my mistakesOpen mistakes and reviews that are dueyat:grill
card this / anki review / check my leechesFlashcards in Anki, in your wordsyat:anki

What you know​

You sayWhat happensSkill
build my mastery map / show my mapThe ideas behind your roadmap, each with its stateyat:mastery
what do I know in <env> / why is <point> <state>The dated evidence behind a stateyat:mastery
review my notebook / compile my notebookQuestions about your own explanations; a book of themyat:notebook
remember this / what do I know about XWrites to or reads from your knowledge graphyat:memory
show my profile / why do you think that about meWhat the tutor believes about how you learn, with evidenceyat:memory
retro / let's debriefA debrief that queues improvementsyat:retro

Sources and exploring​

You sayWhat happensSkill
extract this pdf / absorb this bookTurns a source into text and indexes it by pageyat:media
read <source> with me / I'm at page NA read-along where every question names its pageyat:read
reverse engineer <url or repo>Takes something apart one rung at a timeyat:reverse-engineer

The full routing table the tutor itself reads is harness/system-prompt/SYSTEM.md.