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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@ -440,6 +440,48 @@ export const chatScopeSchema = z.discriminatedUnion("kind", [
]);
export type ChatScope = z.infer<typeof chatScopeSchema>;
/* Teach it back: sessions are chat conversations with a "teach" marker and
the session's own record (which cards were checked, the recap). Kept inside
the chat schema so history, backup and encrypted sync carry them for free. */
export const teachDifficultySchema = z.enum(["friendly", "skeptical"]);
export type TeachDifficulty = z.infer<typeof teachDifficultySchema>;
/** One checklist card the student checks the explanation against. */
export const teachCardRefSchema = z.object({
ref: z.number().int().min(1).max(999),
deckId: z.string().min(1).max(80),
activityId: z.string().min(1).max(80),
deckTitle: z.string().max(200),
/** The prompt side of the card, for the recap's links. */
label: z.string().max(300),
});
export type TeachCardRef = z.infer<typeof teachCardRefSchema>;
export const teachSummarySchema = z.object({
well: z.array(z.string().max(800)).max(12),
gaps: z
.array(
z.object({
what: z.string().max(800),
/** [n] reference into the session's cards, when one covers the gap. */
ref: z.number().int().min(1).max(999).nullable().optional(),
}),
)
.max(20),
next: z.array(z.string().max(800)).max(6),
});
export type TeachSummary = z.infer<typeof teachSummarySchema>;
export const teachSessionSchema = z.object({
difficulty: teachDifficultySchema,
topic: z.string().max(200),
scope: chatScopeSchema,
cards: z.array(teachCardRefSchema).max(80),
summary: teachSummarySchema.optional(),
});
export type TeachSession = z.infer<typeof teachSessionSchema>;
export const chatConversationSchema = z.object({
id: z.string().min(1).max(80),
title: z.string().max(200),
@ -447,6 +489,9 @@ export const chatConversationSchema = z.object({
scope: chatScopeSchema,
model: z.string().max(120).optional(),
provider: z.string().max(60).optional(),
/** "chat" (or absent, for old records) / "teach". */
mode: z.enum(["chat", "teach"]).optional(),
teach: teachSessionSchema.optional(),
createdAt: z.number(),
updatedAt: z.number(),
});