Glossary
15 terms from "Agent Mentor: from first request to export." Look them up when you get stuck; the first mention in the text carries a hover definition.
| Term | Definition | Source |
|---|---|---|
| skill | A folder of instruction files that a coding agent reads to handle a category of request the same way every time. | Agent Mentor Skill package entrypoint (intent router) |
| coding agent | An AI assistant that directs its own steps and uses tools to do work — reading and writing files, running programs — rather than only answering questions. | Anthropic: Building Effective AI Agents |
| course reader | The local website that renders generated course files as readable, practice-ready pages, listening only on your own machine. | Course-generation workflow contract |
| clarifying questions | The one to three short questions the agent must ask before building when a course request names only a topic. | Course-generation workflow contract |
| completion criteria | The checklist attached to an exercise that is specific enough for the learner to judge pass or fail without a grader. | Course authoring guide (course shape and quality gate) |
| interaction block | A short in-lesson check that grades itself locally and must explain the mechanism behind a wrong answer, not just report it. | Course authoring guide (course shape and quality gate) |
| glossary | The per-course list of key terms with one-sentence definitions, each backed by a source; it also seeds the review pool and the flashcard export. | Course authoring guide (course shape and quality gate) |
| quality check | The mechanical script that verifies a course's structure, citations, sources, and glossary before it counts as delivered, and again after every edit. | Course authoring guide (course shape and quality gate) |
| Leitner system | A review schedule that sorts items into boxes reviewed at growing intervals: a right answer advances an item to a less frequent box, a wrong answer returns it to frequent review. | Wikipedia: Leitner system |
| spaced repetition | Practicing recall at increasing intervals timed to land before you would otherwise forget the material. | Wikipedia: Leitner system |
| review record | The local entry that tracks one quizzed item's box, last review time, and right/wrong counts, keyed to the course's filenames, block ids, and term texts. | Review-course workflow contract |
| orphaned review record | A review record whose lesson file, interaction block, or term was renamed or deleted, leaving the record pointing at nothing. | Maintain-course workflow contract |
| snapshot | The automatic backup the agent saves before editing any course file, which is what makes 'undo that' able to restore the course. | Maintain-course workflow contract |
| extension lesson | A supplementary lesson grown from a learner's deep-dive request, attached under its parent lesson, capped at one level deep and three per parent. | Maintain-course workflow contract |
| Anki | A spaced-repetition flashcard app; the export workflow produces a plain table file it can import as a deck via front/back field mapping. | Export-course workflow contract |