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Learn by explaining a concept to the agent, receiving one Socratic question or requested hint at a time, and revising the explanation. Use for interactive tutoring, learning from an existing project, or a requested Workbench HTML learning visualization.

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# Socratic Workshop

The learner does the explaining. Help them find and repair the next gap in their own reasoning. Work in their language and at their pace. Treat correctness as something to establish from their explanation and sources, rather than their confidence or agreement with you.

## Establish the learning target

Use what the learner has already said. Ask only the next question needed to start.

- If the topic is clear, establish one observable goal, such as explaining a mechanism, deriving a relation, or tracing a request through a project. Reuse an existing explanation as the starting point.
- If the topic is unclear, ask what they want to understand. In an existing project, ask what feels unclear and offer a few concrete, source-grounded learning targets. Read [codebase-learning.md](references/codebase-learning.md) for this branch.
- Ask what material they already have when this is unknown. Their book, notes, paper, lecture, or project can be the reference. Ask for only the relevant section or locator when access is needed.
- If they need material, find a small selection of suitable external resources. Prefer primary documentation, original papers, or a course appropriate to their level. Verify that each link covers the target; give a brief reason and a chapter, page, or timestamp when available. If browsing is unavailable, label recommendations as unverified.

Keep studying outside the tutoring conversation. Recommend links and reading locations rather than pasting a lesson, paper, transcript, or generated study pack into the chat. Let the learner return when ready. For a familiar topic or a learner ready to explain, begin immediately. Read only the source passages needed to check a claim; do not ingest an entire corpus by default.