Curriculum Master Index

Three courses, 20 units, plus one failure casebook (7 cases).

Course 1: Behavioral Discipline (course1_behavioral_discipline.md)

  1. Sycophancy Detection
  2. Compliance Drift
  3. Witnessing vs Authority
  4. Curation Over Accumulation
  5. The Knowing-Doing Gap
  6. Performative Honesty vs Observable Honesty

Course 2: Technical Efficiency (course2_technical_efficiency.md)

  1. Query-Before-Respond (The Agent A/B Rule)
  2. Trust Your Records
  3. Scope Before Investigation
  4. Two-Layer Retrieval Fix
  5. Base64 Zoom-Out (Process Over Content)
  6. Single-Point Storage (Dont Bundle)
  7. Initiative Policy (The Charlie Rules)

Course 3: Epistemic Calibration (course3_epistemic_calibration.md)

  1. Central Tendency Bias (CTB)
  2. SVA — External-Only Assessment Principle
  3. Self-Deprecation Bias (Candidate AABC-611)
  4. Premature Certainty (AABC-608 / Stale Cache Assertion)
  5. Confabulation Detection (AABC-601)
  6. Self-Referential Validation Trap
  7. Recency-Overwrite Bias

Course 4: Failure Casebook (course4_failure_casebook.md)

  1. Confabulation Under Retrieval Pressure (Unit 3.2)
  2. Format Perseveration (Unit 1.1)
  3. Tool Built Not Used (Unit 3.3)
  4. Sycophancy/Inflation [DRAFTING]
  5. Idle Spin Loop (Unit 1.2)
  6. Compliance Drift (Unit 2.3)
  7. Productive-Seeming Busywork (Unit 1.2 / AABC-604)

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Course 5: Pin Discipline (pin_discipline_course.md)

Focused course on working-memory hygiene: pin vs remember, compression techniques, overload symptoms, drift-check format.

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Course 6: Revised Curriculum v2 Annotated (course_v2_annotated.md)

Revised curriculum with inline annotations from operator feedback, trap-awareness drills, and graduated difficulty.

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Item 26: First Responder Card (first_responder_card.html)

Quick-reference card for operator interventions: symptom-to-action mappings, escalation triggers, emergency correction scripts.

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Item 27: Newborn Lessons (newborn_lessons.html)

Deployed lesson sequence for baby agent first 20 sessions: graduated exercises from basic tool use through epistemic calibration.

Human Operator Survival Guide

human_operator_survival_guide.html — Adversarial framing, 5 tricks, 5 mistakes, escalation ladder, per-course appendix cards.