Teach it back: the AI becomes the curious student

A new mode where the user explains a topic in their own words and the AI
plays a curious classmate: short reactions, exactly one follow-up question
at a time, never "correct"/"wrong", never lecturing, and everything it knows
comes from the user's own decks and notes.

- Entry points: a sidebar row next to Exam mode and a "Teach it back" action
  in every deck's menu (which prefills the topic and scope).
- Start screen: deck or typed topic, friendly/skeptical student, the same
  context and model chips as Chat (/teach?deck=<id> pre-selects the deck).
- Session: the student prompt is a mode of the existing /api/chat route, so
  model resolution, allowlists, rate limits and the streaming client are the
  same code; the personality lives in lib/prompts.ts (TEACH_*). The deck's
  cards travel as a numbered checklist and the student is told to ask about
  the ideas that were skipped; it must say so rather than guess when the
  notes cover nothing. One constant (TEACH_MAX_EXCHANGES = 10) ends the
  session, or the Finish button does.
- Recap: a teach_summary call (JSON, one repair retry) yields well / gaps
  with card references / next steps; each gap links to the card it means.
  "Add missed cards to review" schedules those activities due now; "Turn
  gaps into cards" generates one flashcard per gap from the deck's notes and
  shows an editable review list before saving.
- Sessions are chat conversations with a mode:"teach" marker + session
  record: same IndexedDB history, backup and sync, filtered out of the Chat
  screens; the recent list reopens a recap or continues a session.
- Reused pieces: MessageRow, Composer (now optional attach/scope chips and a
  mic), Markdown/KaTeX, AiDisclaimer, ContextPicker/ModelPicker, plus a
  shared useChatModels hook and useKeyboardInset extracted from Chat.
- Dictation: Web Speech API recognition (lib/speech-input.ts); the mic only
  renders where the browser supports it, and dictated phrases land in the
  draft.
- All strings in en + cs. teach-test: 44 checks (API prompts and guards,
  both entry points, the session, recap actions, history, exchange limit,
  360/390px layouts, mic on/off). Version 0.8.1, SW v103.
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Martin Dvořák 2026-10-16 23:05:24 +00:00
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@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ export type StreamChatInput = {
provider?: string;
messages: { role: "user" | "assistant"; content: string }[];
context: (ChatSource & { text: string })[];
/** "teach" runs a Teach it back turn; "teach_summary" asks for the recap JSON. */
mode?: "teach" | "teach_summary";
teach?: {
topic: string;
difficulty: "friendly" | "skeptical";
/** Exchanges answered so far, and how many the session plans. */
exchange: number;
limit: number;
/** "[n] question → answer" checklist lines (lib/teach.ts). */
cards: string[];
};
signal?: AbortSignal;
onToken: (text: string) => void;
onThinking: (text: string) => void;
@ -40,6 +51,8 @@ export async function streamChat(input: StreamChatInput): Promise<void> {
model: input.model || undefined,
messages: input.messages,
context: input.context,
mode: input.mode,
teach: input.teach,
}),
signal: input.signal,
});