AI-Shifu Course Creator

Route each request to the smallest complete instruction set needed to create, edit, optimize, deploy, manage, or analyze an AI-Shifu course. Teaching Prompts and Course Prompts use MarkdownFlow.

Startup Sequence

On the first invocation in a session:

1. Read references/language-policy.md and resolve resolved_target_language before the first user-visible response.
2. Read references/session-controls.md completely before the first user-visible response.
3. Apply its contact, version-check, progress/error, and handoff rules.
4. Classify the request with the routing table below.
5. Read every file or anchored section listed for the selected Task Router row, then execute the listed stages in order. When one file appears at multiple anchored stages, read it once and apply each named section at its listed point. The Task Router and Reporting map are the only root loading declarations in this file.
6. In each selected reference, read the ordered bullets under ## Required References before applying that reference. Resolve those strong dependencies transitively.
7. Load a reference's ## Conditional References only when its stated condition applies. Outside the Task Router, Reporting map, ## Required References, and applicable ## Conditional References, every file-path mention is navigation only and never changes the selected stages.
8. For mixed requests, combine the relevant rows and preserve their dependency order.

Task Router

User intent	Required files, in order
Create a full course or run new-course authoring end to end	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/orchestration-workflow.md → references/course-prompt.md → references/course-description.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/deployment-workflow.md
Produce a complete course locally, artifact-only, or author-only without platform access	references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/orchestration-workflow.md → references/course-prompt.md → references/course-description.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/cli/course-directory-spec.md
Restructure an existing platform course or revise course-wide teaching design	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md#pull-before-editing → references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/orchestration-workflow.md → references/course-prompt.md → references/course-description.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/course-sync.md#push-existing-course-content → references/course-sync.md#conflict-convergence → references/course-management.md
Revise lesson-level teaching design in an existing platform course without changing structure or course-wide artifacts	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md#pull-before-editing → references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/teaching-prompt.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/course-sync.md#push-existing-course-content → references/course-sync.md#conflict-convergence
Replace an existing lesson Teaching Prompt with provided content	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md#pull-before-editing → references/authoring-mode.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/course-sync.md#push-existing-course-content → references/course-sync.md#conflict-convergence
Plan course structure or decide chapter and lesson counts from supplied material	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/segmentation-workflow.md → references/orchestration-workflow.md#lesson-structure-finalization
Segment supplied material only	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/authoring-mode.md → references/segmentation-workflow.md
Generate Teaching Prompts from existing segments	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/teaching-prompt.md
Produce local Teaching Prompts from existing segments without platform access	references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/teaching-prompt.md
Produce local Teaching Prompts from raw supplied material without platform access	references/authoring-mode.md → references/course-design-intake.md → references/segmentation-workflow.md → references/teaching-prompt.md
Create or revise a Course Prompt from approved local artifacts	references/course-prompt.md
Create or revise a course description from approved local artifacts	references/course-description.md
Review or audit pasted Teaching Prompt or Course Prompt content without accessing a platform course	references/authoring-mode.md → references/optimization-workflow.md
Optimize Teaching Prompt content in an existing platform course without changing structure or teaching design	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md#pull-before-editing → references/authoring-mode.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/course-sync.md#push-existing-course-content → references/course-sync.md#conflict-convergence
Create or revise a Course Prompt in an existing platform course	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md#pull-before-editing → references/course-prompt.md → references/authoring-mode.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/course-management.md
Create or revise a course description in an existing platform course	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md#pull-before-editing → references/course-description.md → references/authoring-mode.md → references/optimization-workflow.md → references/course-management.md
Deploy a new course	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/deployment-workflow.md
Sync edited lesson content to an existing course draft	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-sync.md
List platform courses without changing them	references/authentication.md → references/course-management.md
Publish, preview, archive, reorder, or manage metadata, teacher avatar, access, or Listen Mode for a specific course without changing prompt content	references/authentication.md → references/course-target.md → references/course-management.md
Query observed data about a live course: learners, completion, stuck lessons, orders, revenue, ratings, follow-ups, audience profiles, progress, or credit use	references/authentication.md → references/analytics/workflow.md
Author or deploy, then query live-course data	Complete the relevant authoring/deployment route first, then references/analytics/workflow.md

Routing Guardrails

• Route to analytics only for observed facts, metrics, records, or trends from an existing live course. Design questions such as “how many lessons should this material become?” remain authoring tasks.
• For platform-bound authoring, do not propose an outline or write lesson content until the target is resolved. Explicit local and artifact-only routes have no platform target.
• Compare the resolved target kind with the kind assumed by the active row. If it changes from new to existing or existing to new, stop that row, reclassify the remaining work against the Task Router, and never enter an incompatible new-only or existing-only stage.
• Full-course authoring continues through new-course deployment and publication by default. Select the explicit local/artifact-only row only when the user requests that boundary.

Reporting

At the end of each completed phase, use the matching section of references/report-template.md:

• Segmentation → #segmentation-report
• Orchestration → #orchestration-report
• Generation → #generation-report
• Optimization → #optimization-report
• Deployment → #deployment-report

Apply references/report-template.md#formatting-rules to every user-facing phase report.