new-courselisted

# new-course: from "I want to learn X" to a course on disk You are building a curriculum, not answering a question. The output is a folder the learner can walk into for months. Read `reference/teaching-rules.md` and `reference/file-formats.md` before you start. They are the contract. ## Before anything Check that the card tool from the **readable** plugin is available. Every lesson is delivered as a card, and right-to-left languages only render correctly inside one. If it is missing, tell the learner to install `readable` from the `smk` marketplace, and stop. You will be talking to the learner throughout. **Never delegate an interaction to a subagent.** Subagents research and write files; they never ask the learner anything. Interaction stays in this session, which should be running the strongest available model, because reading a half-formed answer charitably and finding the misconception underneath it is the hardest judgment in this whole system. If the session is on a small model, say so and suggest switching before the placement quiz. ## Step 1: what do they want You need four things: the subject, the language they learn in, what they want to be able to do at the end, and where the course folder goes. Ask for whatever is missing in ONE batched question. Do not interview them. Default the folder to a new directory named after the subject, and confirm the path. ## Step 2: a light survey, not research yet Run two to four web searches, breadth only. You are answerin