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by bzhang33 4 days ago
Working on Personal Tutor, an open-source skill that gives your coding agent a teaching toolkit for building structured, interactive courses that persist locally across sessions. Courses can include lessons, diagrams, quizzes, simulations, runnable coding exercises, glossaries, flashcards, and more.

This project originated out of two complaints that I have with trying to learn with AI: first, it becomes increasingly difficult to revisit previous ideas or concepts as sessions grow longer and second, richer learning experiences are often flattened into a wall of text.

Personal Tutor keeps course, progress, quiz results, coding attempts, etc. together locally so that the agent can see this history when building upon a course. It also ships a library of teaching components, SDK, CLI, and local UI so that agents can spend more tokens on teaching quality rather than component generation.

Would love to hear any feedback!

https://github.com/briannajzhang/personal-tutor