User pivot (2026-09-19): no attachments UI at all. Pasting paths is native for technical users and alien for everyone else - so the agent gets the tools to find what the learner merely NAMES. The learner communicates in messages; the agent locates and reads. Zero cross-stream seams: paths already live in tool parts, so the sources "list" is the transcript. - ls/find/grep: pi-verbatim schemas, descriptions, and output formats (fd's glob semantics, rg's path:line: match format, pi's truncation notices), ported to pure Node - no binaries, no shell-out, read-only by construction. Deltas from pi: home-anchored resolution (the harness has no cwd), .gitignore replaced by hard noise exclusions (node_modules/.git/Library/.Trash), 10s walk timeout with partial results. - read: description swapped to pi-verbatim (doctrine moved to the prompt); relative paths now resolve against the learner's home like the rest. - prompts/shared/05-learner-files.md: one minimal doctrine fragment composed into BOTH agents (composeInstructions grew a shared/ dir, before the agent's own fragments). teacher/30-jobs.md keeps only the pdf-dispatch addendum. - ToolCallCard: the generic quiet tool-call card the user specced - collapsed one-liner (tool name + headline argument), expandable to full input/output, errors red, image payloads never render. Registered for read/ls/find/grep. - ui-message.ts: TeacherUITools entries for the four tools (mechanical). - tests: fs-tools suite (glob semantics, pi formats, exclusions, limits), registry/card renders, shared-fragment composition pins, tool-registry key updates, read re-anchor.
Prompt fragments
System prompts are composed at agent construction (src/agent/teacher-agent.ts), one composition per agent — the probe/teach split (docs/probe-teach-split.md):
src/agent/system-prompt.md— the SHARED base: the teaching philosophy (both principles), accuracy, quiz-option construction, the question tools, formatting. Owned by the master seam; do not edit from a worker.- Every numeric-prefix
*.mdfragment in the agent's directory (prober/orteacher/), in sorted filename order, joined with---separators. The loader enforces the numeric prefix (\d*-*.md) — other files (like this README) never enter the model's prompt.
Rules for adding a fragment:
- Name it with a numeric order prefix, inside the right agent directory.
shared/fragments compose into BOTH agents (before their own, after the base) — cross-agent doctrine only (e.g.05-learner-files.md); the "never reference the other agent's tools" rule below still applies, so shared fragments may only cover tools both agents actually hold.- One fragment per workstream — your brief tells you which filename you own.
- Document YOUR agent's tools/behaviors exactly; reference tool input field names verbatim (they must match the zod schemas).
- Keep it tight: fragments are always in context. No restating the base prompt.
- The two agents share one transcript but never one toolset — never reference the other agent's tools as if you had them.