Course workspace

First apply the root's study-mode distinction. A philosophical book collection is not a missing technical course: resolve its independent glossary and connected argument/research guide through the philosophy and materials branches. Do not initialize per-book plans, progress files, exercise inventories or checkpoints to make that collection resemble a course. The compilation below applies when an actual course mapping is being created or repaired.

Use this branch when an entered course is new or its folder, resolver, inventory, plan or checkpoints are absent, incomplete or stale. Inspect the real source, answer, practice and local-workspace inventory, applicable course mapping, State and resolver. Do not ask the learner for an inspectable fact or assume that goals, checks or a folder already exist. The root router selects the path and materials branches when this work needs mapping decisions or saved-material writes.

The workspace gives a proposed course mapping a body in accessible sources, artifacts, and entries. Its resolver connects that proposal to what actually exists; learner evidence later tests whether the material carries the intended modeling responsibility. These are separate checks, so a complete folder or prepared checkpoint cannot certify a learner outcome.

Compile real course facts

Compile the course mapping into entry conditions, downstream responsibility, intended exit/transfer evidence, mapping-failure and re-entry conditions, source spine/order, retained depth, and pruned modules with reasons and return triggers. Bind checkpoints to exact covered boundaries, selected intuitive contributions, and accessible answer/rubric evidence; identify local-practice triggers. Apply the root contract's support throughout inquiry, with candidates, structures, and formalization where useful. Evidence need not be a complete learner model or explicit construction; record what the learner contributed and what was supplied. Inspect actual assignment and workspace constraints separately from teaching goals. Static cards supply hypotheses; real material and learning evidence determine traversal and any permitted repair. Preserve the established source spine, including book/lecture order. Per-turn teaching choices do not rewrite a stable plan.

Create a minimal English course-local AGENTS.md only when exact source, artifact, inventory or workspace resolution would otherwise be ambiguous. Record paths, editions, source roles and conditional source use, without copying shared rules. Resolve existing notes and learner-authored content before creating new materials. Resolve the independent glossary and main guide, plus the technical training document with its written-exercise and experiment/project parts under the materials branch. Existing plan, practice and reading references are sources for gradual integration, not a required set of new files. Record the real maintained entrypoint and links; do not claim unproduced guides already exist.

Create Course State when an actual teaching encounter or attributable learner history needs recoverable continuation, using the root's State contract. A materials-only preparation task records its readiness in the existing material index or maintenance record, without creating empty learning State. When State is warranted, distinguish no evidence from failure. A complete workspace or successful source check does not establish learner understanding.

Validate the course mapping and materials

Resolve every named path and source edition. Verify source order, actual prerequisite coverage, exact checkpoint boundaries and answer/rubric evidence; an overview that mentions a term does not establish that prerequisite. Ensure the guide's route and training document contain course facts rather than generic workflow, and allocation matches real inventory. Resolve prepared exercises and recorded attempts before assigning another item; update training material for a changed source pool or usable scope, not for each item or turn.

Check glossary source sequence, recall purpose, supported coverage and preserved reading layers; check continuity and manageable load in reading selections. Keep skimming exposure distinct from detailed coverage and mastery. Validate changed saved materials using the materials branch’s actual reading-mode and navigation checks, including when app-native tools are needed. Static link resolution alone cannot establish a usable rendered result.

At a mapped local-practice trigger, surface the exact item/slice, value, allocation, learner reasoning, operation, expected evidence and workspace entry. The root's independent local-execution boundary still applies. If inventory or source access remains missing or ambiguous, name the precise limit and continue only with supported work. Broader mapping failures follow the path branch's audit boundary; do not invent a course mapping to complete the folder.