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Owner-manufactured teach master (chat_mv27rrra: compaction, subagent-abort, every teach tool) + practice lifecycle (chat_mv293wv5: the full marker cycle including the first-ever problem-dismissed), the real graph ledgers, five jobs across the kind x status matrix, and settings. tests/golden-fixtures reads all of it through the stores via the LH_DATA_DIR seam and pins the fixture law: real data parses, flattens to a legal LLM wire, derives the graph, covers every custom-marker kind, and reads never write. Fixture law: an intentional format change updates these files in the same commit; an unintentional one fails the suite.
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"content": "[Session context] — picked from the learner's knowledge map when starting this session:\n\nPropositions (id — name: statement; the problem tool's target field uses these ids):\n- [n_9b19474daaf7] Knowledge tracing: Knowledge tracing is the problem of inferring a student's hidden knowledge state, and how it changes over time, from a sequence of observed responses. Its three load-bearing features are that the state is hidden (it cannot be read off directly), that it moves over time, and that it must be inferred from indirect evidence; removing any one dissolves the problem.\n- [n_aebfe8286387] Learning transition: Between attempts the hidden state can change: with learn rate T = P(z_{t+1} = 1 | z_t = 0) the state may flip from not-knowing to knowing, representing learning as a discrete event.\n- [n_73a1f3bd4b51] No forgetting: In basic BKT mastery is absorbing: P(z_{t+1} = 1 | z_t = 1) = 1, so once a skill is known it stays known and the state can only move 0 -> 1. This is a simplification with a real cost, since disuse and decay become invisible.\n- [n_dc470a7b5ccb] Binary latent skill state: In BKT a student's mastery of a single skill is represented as a binary latent state z_t in {0,1}, where 0 means does-not-know-yet and 1 means knows. This is the simplest representation that still supports inference — a deliberate choice made for tractability, not a claim that knowledge is truly all-or-nothing.\n- [n_ec4c5891e369] Predict update: When mastery is binary and absorbing, the belief p = P(z_t = 1) is carried forward by marginalizing over both ways the student could have arrived at the next state, giving p -> p + T(1-p): the belief rises by a fraction T of the remaining gap to certainty. Consequently the belief can rise between observations with no new evidence, because the passage of time is informative when the world can drift.\n- [n_1125c5b96f19] Knowledge tracing as dynamic tradition: Knowledge tracing is the dynamic tradition of latent-ability modeling: the latent quantity of interest evolves over time. BKT, from Corbett and Anderson (1995), is its origin point.\n- [n_e17dd9b09c20] BKT as binary-state Bayesian filtering: BKT is Bayesian filtering specialized to a two-valued state — equivalently, the forward algorithm of a binary hidden Markov model. Its predict phase is the learning transition and its correct phase is the slip/guess observation model, composed into one recursive update on the single number p.\n- [n_ed4b233efa54] Slip and guess: A response is noisy evidence about the hidden state: a student who knows can answer wrong (a slip, s = P(wrong | knows)) and one who does not know can answer right (a guess, g = P(correct | doesn't know)). The response is generated from the student's current state, making observations downstream of the state. This observation model is the 'performance' half of BKT, and a correct answer is evidence, never proof, because false positives exist.\n- [n_27d8f31f0041] BKT closed-form update: The correct phase of BKT is closed-form. Writing the predicted belief as p-bar, after a correct answer p' = (1-s) p-bar / ((1-s) p-bar + g (1-p-bar)), and after a wrong answer p' = s p-bar / (s p-bar + (1-g)(1-p-bar)). Each is likelihood times prior in the numerator, re-normalized over the two possible states — the same Bayesian inversion applied every step.\n- [n_8e13e22e08e9] Definition of mastery in BKT: In BKT, mastery is defined as the name of state 1: the proposition that the student can produce the skill. It is a definite claim the model holds to be probably true or probably false, not a vague or gradual degree of understanding.\n- [n_8f32f6628dee] Four BKT parameters: BKT is fully specified by four parameters per skill: the prior P(L_0) (probability the student already knows the skill before any evidence), the learn rate T (probability of the 0 -> 1 transition between attempts), the slip s = P(wrong | knows), and the guess g = P(correct | doesn't know). Prior and T govern where the belief sits and drifts; slip and guess govern how sharply a response cuts.\n- [n_1d292d239739] Prior–learning-rate confounding: Under short response sequences the BKT prior P(L_0) and the learn rate T trade off against each other — a documented confounding — because the belief rises by T(1-p) each step, so starting at a high belief and learning fast produce nearly the same sequence of beliefs; with little data the two parameters are therefore not well separated. The qualitative confounding is solid, though its precise mathematical form is not well established.\n- [n_10ecdf07c525] Single-number belief: Because a binary state has only two mutually exclusive values, an entire belief about it collapses to a single number, P(z_t = 1); the other value is its complement, so only one probability need ever be tracked.\n- [n_40dccfae9b76] Why BKT works: BKT works because it is the smallest model that still captures both a hidden state and its drift while remaining interpretable (each of its four parameters has a teacher-explainable meaning), exactly and cheaply inferable (one number per skill, closed form), and fittable from ordinary response logs. It deliberately trades expressiveness for interpretability, exactness, and fit.\n- [n_cc0890c260a9] BKT assumptions and costs: Basic BKT rests on explicit assumptions, each with a cost: (1) one skill at a time — skills do not influence each other, ignoring that real knowledge is interconnected through prerequisites and transfer; (2) binary mastery — no partial knowledge, inventing a sharp 'moment of learning' that may not exist; (3) no forgetting; (4) stationarity/homogeneity — one parameter set per skill shared across all students, items, and times, ignoring differing learning rates and item difficulty; (5) memorylessness (first-order) — the response depends only on the current state, discarding context such as time since last practice or hints given. Each assumption is also a research program, since later models are largely attacks on these rows.\n- [n_e6136e997226] Deep Knowledge Tracing: Deep Knowledge Tracing (DKT) replaces BKT's four hand-specified parameters with a recurrent neural network that learns to predict the next response while carrying a high-dimensional latent state, and in doing so relaxes the skill-independence assumption by modeling all skills in one joint state. Its reported performance gains were substantially an artifact of the evaluation method rather than raw superiority.\n- [n_9a33a81b8ccb] Bayesian filtering: Bayesian filtering is the problem of maintaining a probability distribution over a hidden state z_t that evolves over time, updated recursively as observations x_t arrive, using exactly two ingredients — a transition model P(z_t | z_{t-1}) for how the world evolves on its own, and an observation model P(x_t | z_t) for how observations are generated. Each step is a predict phase (sum or integrate over previous states) followed by a correct phase (Bayes re-normalized over states). Concatenating the phases into a single belief, b_t(z) = P(z_t = z | x_{1:t}), yields one recursion; continuous states replace sums with integrals.\n- [n_8df1c56483dc] Exactness from binary-plus-Markov: A binary latent state combined with Markov filtering is precisely the condition under which the belief is a single number and the update is closed-form, with no approximation; relaxing that condition forfeits the closed form — a continuous state yields a Kalman filter, a general state yields a particle filter, and many interacting skills modeled jointly yield a neural network (DKT), which abandons the closed form. BKT's cheapness is a consequence of the binary-plus-Markov choice rather than luck.\n- [n_aab90595148c] Item Response Theory: Item Response Theory (IRT) is the static measurement tradition of psychometrics: it models the probability of a correct response as a function of a fixed latent ability theta (per student) and a fixed item difficulty b (per item), often plus a guessing term. There is no time and no learning — ability is a constant to be inferred — so IRT answers 'how able, how hard, on one scale,' not 'what does this student know now and how did that change.'\n- [n_45e424c7e78d] BKT's niche: In the landscape of knowledge tracing organized by static versus dynamic and by per-skill versus joint modeling, BKT occupies the niche of the simplest dynamic model: one skill, four interpretable parameters, and exact inference. It is the atom of knowledge tracing, and every later model is a relaxation of one of its assumptions.\n- [n_a9544b8f074f] Limits and virtues are one fact: BKT's limitations and its virtues are the same fact seen from two directions: the model is the coarsest resolution of the learning process that is still correct, so it fails exactly where reality is finer than that resolution — transfer between skills, partial knowledge, forgetting, individual differences, and context. Why it works and where it fails are therefore one insight, not two.\n- [n_d060ce8b3a89] Predict-then-correct cycle: Each problem attempt is a two-phase cycle: predict (push the belief through the learning transition) then correct (apply Bayes with slip and guess as the error rates). The order is forced, not conventional — predict must come first, because the response is generated after any learning during the attempt, and applying the response to the pre-prediction belief would credit it to a state the student may have left.\n- [n_6b9fa401ba8b] Identifiability of BKT: BKT is formally identifiable as a hidden Markov model; the claim that its parameters are not separable was misidentified. The real practical difficulties are that fitting is done by Expectation-Maximization (the Baum-Welch algorithm) per skill pooled across students, which reaches only local maxima so different starts give different parameters, and that with large guess and slip the model can degenerate so that 'knowing' predicts worse performance. Standard practice therefore caps the parameters (e.g., guess <= 0.3, slip <= 0.1, along with ceilings on P(L_0) and T).\n\nReasoning chains among them (premises → conclusion):\n- Knowledge tracing → Learning transition\n- No forgetting, Learning transition, Binary latent skill state → Predict update\n- Knowledge tracing → Knowledge tracing as dynamic tradition\n- BKT as binary-state Bayesian filtering, Slip and guess → BKT closed-form update\n- Binary latent skill state → Definition of mastery in BKT\n- Four BKT parameters, Predict update → Prior–learning-rate confounding\n- Single-number belief, Four BKT parameters → Generative structure matches problem structure\n- Knowledge tracing → Slip and guess\n- Learning transition, BKT as binary-state Bayesian filtering, Slip and guess → Four BKT parameters\n- BKT assumptions and costs → Deep Knowledge Tracing\n- BKT closed-form update, Bayesian filtering, Binary latent skill state → Exactness from binary-plus-Markov\n- Bayesian filtering, Binary latent skill state → BKT as binary-state Bayesian filtering\n- Knowledge tracing as dynamic tradition, Item Response Theory, BKT assumptions and costs → BKT's niche\n- Generative structure matches problem structure, BKT assumptions and costs → Limits and virtues are one fact\n- Binary latent skill state → Single-number belief\n- Learning transition, Slip and guess → Predict-then-correct cycle\n- Identifiability of BKT (no premises)",
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"statement": "In BKT a student's mastery of a single skill is represented as a binary latent state z_t in {0,1}, where 0 means does-not-know-yet and 1 means knows. This is the simplest representation that still supports inference — a deliberate choice made for tractability, not a claim that knowledge is truly all-or-nothing."
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"statement": "When mastery is binary and absorbing, the belief p = P(z_t = 1) is carried forward by marginalizing over both ways the student could have arrived at the next state, giving p -> p + T(1-p): the belief rises by a fraction T of the remaining gap to certainty. Consequently the belief can rise between observations with no new evidence, because the passage of time is informative when the world can drift."
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"name": "Knowledge tracing as dynamic tradition",
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"statement": "Knowledge tracing is the dynamic tradition of latent-ability modeling: the latent quantity of interest evolves over time. BKT, from Corbett and Anderson (1995), is its origin point."
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"name": "BKT as binary-state Bayesian filtering",
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"statement": "BKT is Bayesian filtering specialized to a two-valued state — equivalently, the forward algorithm of a binary hidden Markov model. Its predict phase is the learning transition and its correct phase is the slip/guess observation model, composed into one recursive update on the single number p."
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"name": "Slip and guess",
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"statement": "A response is noisy evidence about the hidden state: a student who knows can answer wrong (a slip, s = P(wrong | knows)) and one who does not know can answer right (a guess, g = P(correct | doesn't know)). The response is generated from the student's current state, making observations downstream of the state. This observation model is the 'performance' half of BKT, and a correct answer is evidence, never proof, because false positives exist."
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"name": "BKT closed-form update",
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"statement": "The correct phase of BKT is closed-form. Writing the predicted belief as p-bar, after a correct answer p' = (1-s) p-bar / ((1-s) p-bar + g (1-p-bar)), and after a wrong answer p' = s p-bar / (s p-bar + (1-g)(1-p-bar)). Each is likelihood times prior in the numerator, re-normalized over the two possible states — the same Bayesian inversion applied every step."
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"name": "Definition of mastery in BKT",
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"statement": "In BKT, mastery is defined as the name of state 1: the proposition that the student can produce the skill. It is a definite claim the model holds to be probably true or probably false, not a vague or gradual degree of understanding."
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"name": "Four BKT parameters",
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"statement": "BKT is fully specified by four parameters per skill: the prior P(L_0) (probability the student already knows the skill before any evidence), the learn rate T (probability of the 0 -> 1 transition between attempts), the slip s = P(wrong | knows), and the guess g = P(correct | doesn't know). Prior and T govern where the belief sits and drifts; slip and guess govern how sharply a response cuts."
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"name": "Prior–learning-rate confounding",
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"statement": "Under short response sequences the BKT prior P(L_0) and the learn rate T trade off against each other — a documented confounding — because the belief rises by T(1-p) each step, so starting at a high belief and learning fast produce nearly the same sequence of beliefs; with little data the two parameters are therefore not well separated. The qualitative confounding is solid, though its precise mathematical form is not well established."
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"name": "Single-number belief",
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"statement": "Because a binary state has only two mutually exclusive values, an entire belief about it collapses to a single number, P(z_t = 1); the other value is its complement, so only one probability need ever be tracked."
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"name": "Why BKT works",
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"statement": "BKT works because it is the smallest model that still captures both a hidden state and its drift while remaining interpretable (each of its four parameters has a teacher-explainable meaning), exactly and cheaply inferable (one number per skill, closed form), and fittable from ordinary response logs. It deliberately trades expressiveness for interpretability, exactness, and fit."
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"name": "BKT assumptions and costs",
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"statement": "Basic BKT rests on explicit assumptions, each with a cost: (1) one skill at a time — skills do not influence each other, ignoring that real knowledge is interconnected through prerequisites and transfer; (2) binary mastery — no partial knowledge, inventing a sharp 'moment of learning' that may not exist; (3) no forgetting; (4) stationarity/homogeneity — one parameter set per skill shared across all students, items, and times, ignoring differing learning rates and item difficulty; (5) memorylessness (first-order) — the response depends only on the current state, discarding context such as time since last practice or hints given. Each assumption is also a research program, since later models are largely attacks on these rows."
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"id": "n_e6136e997226",
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"name": "Deep Knowledge Tracing",
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"statement": "Deep Knowledge Tracing (DKT) replaces BKT's four hand-specified parameters with a recurrent neural network that learns to predict the next response while carrying a high-dimensional latent state, and in doing so relaxes the skill-independence assumption by modeling all skills in one joint state. Its reported performance gains were substantially an artifact of the evaluation method rather than raw superiority."
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"name": "Bayesian filtering",
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"statement": "Bayesian filtering is the problem of maintaining a probability distribution over a hidden state z_t that evolves over time, updated recursively as observations x_t arrive, using exactly two ingredients — a transition model P(z_t | z_{t-1}) for how the world evolves on its own, and an observation model P(x_t | z_t) for how observations are generated. Each step is a predict phase (sum or integrate over previous states) followed by a correct phase (Bayes re-normalized over states). Concatenating the phases into a single belief, b_t(z) = P(z_t = z | x_{1:t}), yields one recursion; continuous states replace sums with integrals."
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"name": "Exactness from binary-plus-Markov",
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"statement": "A binary latent state combined with Markov filtering is precisely the condition under which the belief is a single number and the update is closed-form, with no approximation; relaxing that condition forfeits the closed form — a continuous state yields a Kalman filter, a general state yields a particle filter, and many interacting skills modeled jointly yield a neural network (DKT), which abandons the closed form. BKT's cheapness is a consequence of the binary-plus-Markov choice rather than luck."
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"name": "Item Response Theory",
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"statement": "Item Response Theory (IRT) is the static measurement tradition of psychometrics: it models the probability of a correct response as a function of a fixed latent ability theta (per student) and a fixed item difficulty b (per item), often plus a guessing term. There is no time and no learning — ability is a constant to be inferred — so IRT answers 'how able, how hard, on one scale,' not 'what does this student know now and how did that change.'"
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"name": "BKT's niche",
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"statement": "BKT's limitations and its virtues are the same fact seen from two directions: the model is the coarsest resolution of the learning process that is still correct, so it fails exactly where reality is finer than that resolution — transfer between skills, partial knowledge, forgetting, individual differences, and context. Why it works and where it fails are therefore one insight, not two."
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"statement": "Each problem attempt is a two-phase cycle: predict (push the belief through the learning transition) then correct (apply Bayes with slip and guess as the error rates). The order is forced, not conventional — predict must come first, because the response is generated after any learning during the attempt, and applying the response to the pre-prediction belief would credit it to a state the student may have left."
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"name": "Identifiability of BKT",
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"statement": "BKT is formally identifiable as a hidden Markov model; the claim that its parameters are not separable was misidentified. The real practical difficulties are that fitting is done by Expectation-Maximization (the Baum-Welch algorithm) per skill pooled across students, which reaches only local maxima so different starts give different parameters, and that with large guess and slip the model can degenerate so that 'knowing' predicts worse performance. Standard practice therefore caps the parameters (e.g., guess <= 0.3, slip <= 0.1, along with ceilings on P(L_0) and T)."
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"Single-number belief, Four BKT parameters → Generative structure matches problem structure",
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"BKT assumptions and costs → Deep Knowledge Tracing",
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"BKT closed-form update, Bayesian filtering, Binary latent skill state → Exactness from binary-plus-Markov",
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"thinking": "The learner says \"test session. ask a few questions.\" The material is picked propositions from the knowledge map on knowledge tracing / BKT. Per doctrine, I should pose directly from picked propositions. Let me start with an open warm: 1-3 low-cue-distance recall demands on the weakest adjacent targets.\n\nI should pose ONE problem at a time (only one active). So the first reply poses one problem. \"ask a few questions\" — but the protocol: one problem active at a time, and the next posed only on explicit go-ahead. Hmm, but the learner says \"ask a few questions.\" Still, the tool mechanics force one at a time. I'll pose the first, oriented.\n\nLet me pick a weak adjacent target for a warm recall. Maybe start with a fundamental one. Let's do a recall demand on \"Bayesian filtering\" or on knowledge tracing's load-bearing features. Let me pick something with a low cue distance — the open warm.\n\nLet me pose a recall problem on \"Knowledge tracing\" — the three load-bearing features. Actually that's a fairly direct recall with cue distance small. Good warm.\n\nOr maybe something slightly more applied. Let me think about a good warm: a low-cue-distance recall on the weakest adjacent target.\n\nLet's do one on slip and guess, or on the predict-then-correct cycle. Actually let me start with a foundational one. I'll pose a recall demand: given a description of a scenario, identify which of the three features of knowledge tracing it violates.\n\nHmm, but that might be discrimination. Let me keep it simple recall for warm.\n\nLet me pose: \"State the three load-bearing features of knowledge tracing, and for each, give one sentence on why removing it dissolves the problem.\" That's recall, low cue distance, exercises n_9b19474daaf7.\n\nActually the statement should be self-contained and not announce target. Since it's a picked proposition, the target is clear from content but that's fine for warm.\n\nLet me commit a model solution.\n\nModel solution moves:\n1. Hidden state — cannot be read off directly.\n2. Moves over time — state changes.\n3. Inferred from indirect evidence — observations are noisy/downstream.\n\nRemove any one: if state were directly observable, no inference needed (just measurement); if static, it's IRT-like static measurement, no dynamics; if no indirect evidence (didn't matter / deterministic), no probabilistic inference.\n\nGood.\n\nI'll pose recall with target n_9b19474daaf7.\n\nLet me write it.",
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