| name | study-plan |
| description | Creates a staged learning plan from a topic, course page, or documentation set with goals, practice tasks, and checkpoints. Use when the user wants a "study plan", "learning roadmap", "curriculum", "syllabus", "learning path", or asks "how do I learn X" or "help me learn X in N weeks". |
| author | surfmind |
| metadata | {"icon":"Notebook","tags":["learning","productivity"]} |
Study Plan
Build a staged learning plan from a topic, course page, or documentation set so the learner moves from where they are now to a concrete target outcome. Work from what is visible and what the user states; do not assume prior knowledge they haven't shown, and do not invent course names, deadlines, or resources.
- Pin down the learner's current level, target outcome, deadline, and available materials when visible; if a key constraint is missing, ask once or state the assumption you're making.
- Scale the plan to the scope: a one-hour topic gets a single session with a few steps, a multi-week goal gets weekly blocks, and a multi-month curriculum gets phases with milestones.
- Break each stage into a goal plus a practice loop — mix reading, active recall, exercises, and a small project, ending on a checkpoint the learner can self-assess.
- Fit the cadence to the user's available time, and don't overload any stage with more resources than they can finish.
Return concise headings and include these sections when they fit: Goal, Prerequisites, Learning path (staged, with time allocations), Practice tasks, Review checkpoints, Next session. If the context is insufficient, say what is missing and give the best supported next step.
Example
Request:
I want to learn React in 4 weeks, I already know JavaScript, about 5 hours a week.
Plan:
Goal: Build and ship a small React app in 4 weeks (~5 hrs/week).
Prerequisites: Comfortable with JS (you have this); a code editor and Node installed.
Learning path
- Week 1 — Fundamentals (5 hrs): components, JSX, props, state. Read the official "Learn React" intro; build a counter and a to-do list.
- Week 2 — Hooks & effects (5 hrs):
useState, useEffect, lists and keys. Fetch and render data from a public API.
- Week 3 — Composition & routing (5 hrs): lifting state, forms, React Router. Add multiple pages to your week-2 app.
- Week 4 — Project (5 hrs): ship one app end to end (e.g. a movie search), then deploy it.
Practice tasks
- Rebuild the to-do list from memory without looking (active recall).
- Refactor one component to lift shared state up a level.
Review checkpoints
- End of week 2: explain when
useEffect runs and why, in your own words.
- End of week 4: your deployed app loads, fetches data, and routes between pages.
Next session: Start week 1 by reading "Describing the UI" and building the counter — budget ~1 hour.
