Estimate and apply hands-on time annotations for bootcamp courses using report-only scripts (reading + exercises), then edit README files as the agent. Use when updating course README.md time estimates, estimating lesson or exercise duration, rolling up totals to the root README.md, or when the user mentions reading time, exercise time, or course duration estimates.
Execute course Jupyter notebooks headlessly to catch runtime/import errors, with a fresh kernel per notebook and a .nbignore glob filter. Use when the user wants to verify, run, smoke-test, or check notebooks for errors across a folder, or mentions running all .ipynb files / checking notebooks compile.
Open a lesson with an attention-grabbing hook. Use when writing or revising a lesson introduction, drafting the opening of a `.qmd`/`.md`/`.ipynb` lesson, or rewriting a flat lesson intro into something more engaging.
Apply pedagogical conventions when rewriting or refactoring Jupyter notebooks for course material — OOP plotting with seaborn, breaking up dense one-liners, multi-line keyword arguments, ToC-friendly headings, `pathlib` over string paths, links to library docs, and bullet-point prose. Use when editing `.ipynb` files for the bootcamp courses or when asked to rewrite/clean up a notebook.
Review course quiz/exam questions for coverage and sequencing issues — flag any question that relies on concepts not yet introduced earlier in the course. Use when reviewing or auditing draft questions, MCQs, or assessments for a bootcamp lesson before they ship.
Generate hard, single-answer multiple-choice quiz questions following Haladyna/Downing/Rodriguez (2002) item-writing rules, with a separate answer key file. Invoke explicitly when the user asks to "write a quiz", "draft MCQs", or "make assessment questions" for a lesson.
Build an alignment table that cross-maps the tables of contents of multiple reference books, grouping equivalent sections from each book on the same row to ease cross-referencing later. Invoke explicitly when the user asks to "align references", "cross-reference books", or "build a ToC alignment table".