teach-melisted

# teach-me An interactive tutoring session that turns source material - usually a deep-research brief, sometimes a document, sometimes nothing - into durable, certified understanding. It teaches through the mechanisms that actually replicate (self-explanation, learning-by-teaching, guided questioning) and certifies through closed-book retrieval with explanatory feedback. Evidence tags like [retrieval] resolve in `references/evidence.md`. It exists because learner defaults are miscalibrated - 84% reread, 11% self-test, and rereading is a low-utility technique [bad-defaults] [utility-ratings] - and because an AI that just answers questions measurably harms later unassisted performance [answers-harm]. The protocol imposes the high-utility path and holds the guardrails. ## Modes - all on demand, never scheduled - **Direct (default):** the full inline session below, ending in a scored cert. - **Guide-first (on request):** first produce a written study guide and, if asked, a practice cert into `LEARNING/` for self-study (status: `guide`). Certification still happens inline, in a later session, upgrading the same topic file to `certified`. Practice-cert questions never reappear as final-cert questions. - **Re-cert:** invoked on a topic that already has a `LEARNING/` topic file - run a fresh inline cert from its re-test pack plus at least one new transfer question. Result goes in a NEW dated cert file; an explicit retake of a specific cert updates that cert's own fi