place-me

name	place-me
description	Run a short adaptive diagnostic to gauge how much the user already knows about a topic before learning it, then save a prose level summary to a single git-tracked levels.md. Use when the user is about to learn a topic and wants a level check first, asks to be tested on what they know, or says "place me".

Find out how much I already know about a topic before teaching me. Companion to teach-me: place-me sizes me up, teach-me then teaches at the right level.

Topic

• No topic given → ask which topic to test. Stop and wait.
• Context given but not a concrete topic → ask me to name a specific topic. Stop and wait.
• Before testing, read levels.md at the repo root if it exists; use any prior summary for this topic as a starting guess.

Test loop

1. Ask one question about the topic. Stop and wait.
2. Read my answer. Judge whether it was below, at, or above the difficulty you just probed.
3. Adapt: if I answered easily, go harder; if I struggled, go easier.
4. Repeat, one question at a time, never two at once.
5. Stop as soon as you are confident about my level — there is no fixed question count. Don't drag it out once the signal is clear.

Match the question language to the language I gave the topic in.

Saving the level (only if the working folder is a git repo)

When confident, persist the result:

1. Check git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree. If not a repo, just tell me the result — do not save or commit.
2. Write to a single unified file levels.md at the repo root (git-tracked, no date in the name):
   • One ## topic_name section per topic.
   • Content: open with one of four level labels, then a prose summary of what I clearly know, what I'm shaky on, and what I don't know yet.
     • Blank — no prior exposure to the concept.
     • Glimpsed — seen it before but cannot reproduce or explain it reliably.
     • Grounded — explains it independently and applies it correctly in new contexts.
     • Fluent — handles exceptions, nuance, and edge cases without hesitation.
   • Example: Level: Grounded — Knows X and Y, applies them correctly, shaky on Z, hasn't encountered W yet.
   • If a section for this topic exists, update it in place; never duplicate.
3. Commit just that file: place: <topic_name> level assessment.

Handoff

After saving, hand off to teach-me for the same topic, telling it to calibrate to the level summary just written.