The quiz player is a box the height of the window. The question used to
scroll the whole page, which took the session rail and the navigation off
screen exactly when you wanted them; now each column scrolls on its own
and the bar — Exit session, Previous, Next, Review — stays put.
Two site-wide switches, together under Settings → Site policy because
both are the administrator's and both apply to everyone:
* Sharing can be turned off. That stops new links being made; one
already handed to somebody keeps working, since revoking it would
break something a learner has already given away.
* Sign-up can be made invite-only, with single-use codes carrying a
note of who each is for and, afterwards, who it let in. A spent code
is kept rather than deleted — that record is the point of invite-only.
The alphabet has no O/0 or I/1/l, because these get read aloud.
The registration form asks for a code only when the site needs one, via
an unauthenticated policy endpoint — it has to know before there is an
account to ask with. It never says whether a given code is valid before
the account exists, which would make it somewhere to guess them. The
first account is always allowed, or a new install would lock itself out
before an administrator existed to issue a code.
Flags fall back to their defaults when Redis is down, in the safe
direction each way: sharing keeps working, sign-up does not silently
open.
Found on the way: the registration form's three labels named nothing —
no `for`, no wrapping — so a screen reader announced unlabelled boxes.
Backend 261/261, frontend 328/328.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
Comments are gone. A thread under every question was a discussion nobody
moderated, and what it was used for was telling an educator something was
wrong. That is now feedback: a private report, carrying the question id,
that someone is expected to act on.
* Give feedback sits in the question bar's new "more" menu, beside Save
and Share — occasional actions, folded away rather than each taking a
slot in a bar read on every question.
* An educator gets a badge of what is outstanding. Each row names the
question and opens its editor, where the report sits beside the field
it is about; reply, resolve, reopen or delete from there.
* Resolving keeps the report. A question with a history of the same
complaint should visibly have one; deleting is for the ones that were
never about the question.
* A granted educator sees only their own branch. The badge answers
quietly with zero for someone with no access, so the header can ask
without first working out who is asking.
The question bank is now the Qbank: create a session, and the last three
with Resume. Its facets, tag tree and create-a-quiz were a second copy of
the custom-session page; marking and folders belong in the player while
you are sitting a question. Import and export moved to the question
manager, which is the one place questions are managed, and which now has
a Preview that opens over the list instead of a page you have to come
back from.
Fixed while there: a session in progress analysed as 0/0 with an empty
table, because the analysis read attempt_answers — written on submit —
while the session list counted the saved progress. They read the same
thing now. The category trail is gone from the player: it named the
answer's own topic and led out of a session part-way through. An option's
reasoning opens on click and closes on the next one.
Backend 253/253, frontend 323/323.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
The page at /quizzes showed the same fifteen rows twice — once under a
"Sessions" tab as a list, once under a "Library" tab as cards — with
nothing distinguishing them. The navbar carried the duplication too,
with "Sessions" and "History" both pointing at the same page.
Board Review I-XII already exist as study plans. The Library tab was
showing the bulk quizzes those plans were built from, so the same twelve
titles appeared in both systems. Those quizzes are now origin='plan':
still real, still the parent of their questions via source_quiz_id, but
no longer offered as something to pick off a list. Once a learner has
actually sat one it is history, so the session list keeps it.
- QuizzesPage deleted; /sessions is the only listing
- /quizzes/* redirects to /sessions/*, preserving path and query
- submitting a session lands on its analysis, not the old score page
- the answer review drops its score hero, which the analysis owns and
stated differently; a course quiz keeps its card, having no analysis
- delete-attempt moves to the analysis page, where the session lives
Backend 208/208, frontend 246/246.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
The linking was the gap
The marker system was built weeks ago — resolves by id, survives a rename, shows
a preview on hover — and not one of 333 articles used it. Every article was
written in isolation, so a piece on croup named stridor and epiglottitis and
offered no way to reach either. `scripts/link_articles.py` reads what is written
and links it: 3,718 cross-references across 307 articles, by id, so a later
rename cannot break them.
Conservative on purpose, because a wrong link is worse than a missing one: only
the first mention in a section, whole words, longest title first so "Otitis media
with effusion" beats "Otitis media", never inside an existing link, marker,
heading, code span or table, and never an article to itself.
That exposed a second thing: the reading view had its own Markdown pipeline with
its own cross-reference regex, and it only understood the old slug form. It would
have printed every one of those 3,718 links as literal brackets. Article prose
now goes through the same renderer as the rest of the site.
Short and Clinical looked empty
Both are usually a single section, and everything starts collapsed, so the tab
showed one heading over blank space. A view of one section is not a contents
page; it opens.
Removed
Quiz reminders — emailed nudges to retake anything under 75%, with a scheduler
that existed solely to send them: the model, the service, the scheduler, the
email, the table. Article comments. The dashboard's in-progress list and its
stat cards, both of which the analysis page now answers better.
One mistake worth recording: the first pass at removing the reminder cleanup used
a regex that took 109 lines with it, including an unrelated endpoint. The test
suite caught it (`/attempts/quiz/{id}/in-progress` returning 404 instead of 403),
and the file was restored and edited by exact match instead.
208 backend, 249 frontend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
Figures
A question could carry exactly one stem image and one explanation image, each a
bare path with no title, no legend, and no way for the prose to refer to it.
`question_media` makes a figure a row: it points at an image already in the bank,
carries a role, a label the text can name ("Figure 1"), a caption and an order,
and there can be as many as the question needs. The same radiograph can serve two
questions without being stored twice.
The 346 existing paths were backfilled into figure records and retitled —
`page_339_img_0.png` says where a file came from and nothing about what it shows,
so the filename moved into the caption where it is still searchable, and the
title became something a person can read.
On the editor question: no new platform needed. Milkdown is already installed —
ProseMirror-based, MIT, GFM tables, code blocks, LaTeX — and already used for
articles, courses and the quick question modal. Only the question *page* still
has plain textareas, and that swap is written down rather than rushed, because
the stem carries manual-highlight offsets and a WYSIWYG rewrite would move them.
Fewer hints during a quiz
The category trail and the difficulty pill were shown beside every stem. Being
told a question is filed under Neonatology, or that it is "hard", narrows the
answer before the stem has been read. Both now wait until the answer is in,
where the trail becomes a way to more of the same topic.
The dashboard is about questions
Quizzes and attempts describe how the material happens to be packaged. What a
learner is working through is questions: how many of the bank they have seen,
how many they have answered correctly, and their average. The old per-quiz
performance card — which needed two attempts before it showed anything — is
gone, superseded by the session analysis. The greeting sits above "continue your
study" rather than below it, where it read as a heading for the wrong section.
208 backend, 249 frontend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
The results page showed a score and a wall of explanations. What a learner needs
afterwards is where the time went and what to go back to, so
/analysis/session/:attemptId gives them: a rail of recent sessions, the four
figures they act on — correct, completed, time per question, total time — a
donut, the weakest topics, and a paginated table of every question with its
status, difficulty, time and how peers did on it.
Time per question was not recorded at all, so it could not be reported. It is
now (`attempt_answers.seconds_spent`), banked when you leave a question and
including the one still open at submission — without that the last question of
every session would show nothing. Answers from before this read "—" rather than
claiming zero, and a question nobody else has answered has no peer rate rather
than 0%, which would read as everyone having failed it.
Also in this pass, from the review:
* quiz categories are gone from the library — a second taxonomy beside the
real one, putting a heading above every test;
* the board review sets are numbered rather than dated, in both the quizzes
and the study plans built from the same material, so a learner does not meet
2019 in one place and VII in another;
* the footer's standing note is one clause, and the gap above it no longer
looks like the page ended early.
Everything else asked for today is written down in docs/TODO.md rather than
half-built: resume instead of restart, an unsuspended exam that keeps running,
deleting a session's data, reset-all-data with a warning, recommendations split
by article/discipline/system, and the adaptive session. Two questions I owe
answers to are in there too.
208 backend, 249 frontend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
The question toolbar now carries what a learner actually reaches for. An
attending tip — one sentence of the kind said at the bedside, stored separately
from the explanation because it is read before the answer is known and must not
give it away. A note of their own on that question, replacing a single global
note that was one page for everything and so was never about the question in
front of you. Saving to a folder, which the collections API has supported all
along with nothing in the player able to call it. And the share link, which
previously only appeared on the start screen.
Panels open one at a time under the toolbar; two at once would push the options
off screen.
Reset question resets one question, not the attempt: a misclick should cost the
answer you just gave, not the nineteen before it.
The clock shows session time, time on this question and the running average, in
study mode as well as exam mode — four minutes on one question is the number
that says whether you are learning or stuck, countdown or no countdown. It
pauses, because time spent making tea is not time spent thinking.
208 backend, 249 frontend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
The objective did almost nothing
It scoped question counts and nothing else, which is why changing it appeared to
have no effect. An exam now carries a family (USMLE, COMLEX, boards), a
description, and the article views it offers, and `/exams/` reports what the
current objective actually changes rather than leaving the learner to guess.
Reading follows from it: an article returns only the views its objective allows,
so someone revising a basic-science step is never shown bedside dosing they must
not act on — a view you can open but must never use is worse than one you were
never offered. An editor still gets the whole article, because they cannot edit
what they cannot see. An objective configured to show nothing falls back to all
three; that is a configuration mistake, not a preference worth honouring.
Unused figures deleted, at the user's request
3,262 figures — 334 MB — that nothing had ever used. "Unused" was defined by
exclusion and every exclusion was checked rather than assumed: kept if any
question uses it as a stem or explanation image, if any question version
mentions it, or if it appears in article prose or a flashcard. 440 kept, and
five question figures spot-checked as still readable afterwards. MinIO is now
596 objects, 520 MB, down from 3,858 and 854 MB.
This is not reversible from the application; the nightly borg backup of the
volume is the only way back, and that is stated in the script rather than
assumed.
For the record, since it was asked: the extraction is PyMuPDF, with an MD5 skip
list for repeated branding images. It pulled every embedded image from all 18
source PDFs, which is why one 767-page document alone produced 908 of them.
208 backend tests green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
Standardises cross-references the way we agreed, and puts a CMS around articles
so hundreds of generated drafts are reviewable rather than merely present.
Links, made rename-proof
`[[7|Febrile seizures]]` resolves by id and displays the text — the id is the
part that must not change, the text is what keeps prose readable while you write
it. `[[old-slug]]` still resolves and is rewritten to the id form on save, not in
a migration: an article nobody has touched is not broken, and rewriting prose no
one asked to change is how an editor stops trusting the editor. Every slug an
article has ever had is kept, so a rename redirects instead of 404ing, and a save
reports markers pointing at nothing — at the moment the person who wrote the link
is still looking at it.
Three views of one topic
The full article to study from, the key points to revise from, the clinical view
to act from, with doses. They are views of one article rather than three
articles, so the numbers cannot drift apart and a question linked to the topic
still means one thing. Each section carries its variant; articles written before
this are the long view, unchanged.
CMS
draft → in review → published, with an author able to submit and only a
moderator able to publish. Every save snapshots what was there, restorable, and
restoring is itself snapshotted or the way back from a mistaken restore is gone.
The editorial queue is work rather than inventory: waiting for review, generated
and unread, published without sources, published with nothing to practise,
barely written. An empty bucket is drawn as good news, not as an alert.
Articles from the clinical library
The library index is 1.8M chunks of reference texts embedded with bge-m3 — the
same model PedsHub already uses, so our query vectors are directly comparable and
nothing had to be re-indexed. Retrieval supplies the facts and the provenance;
the model supplies the prose. References are built from the metadata of the
passages actually retrieved, never from the model, so a reference cannot be
invented — the same property that makes an AI Mode citation trustworthy. A topic
with fewer than three grounding passages is skipped rather than written from
memory. Everything lands as a draft.
Two things worth naming. The generated text is original writing grounded in those
books, not extracts from them: their facts are usable, their sentences are their
publishers'. And there are two Milvus servers on this host — the collection with
the data is the one reached as `milvus`, not the similarly named one on the other
stack, which I wired up first and which silently refused.
Also fixed along the way: `litellm==1.28.13` has been withdrawn from PyPI, so
requirements.txt could no longer be resolved from scratch and the image only
built because of a cached layer. Later additions go in their own layer until the
pins are refreshed.
182 backend, 223 frontend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
The design settled earlier, built as described: retrieval decides what may be
cited, and the server enforces it.
The model is handed a shortlist of at most fourteen sources from the learner's
own library and told to cite them by marker. Afterwards every citation it wrote
is checked against that shortlist and anything else is deleted before it is
stored or shown. A hallucinated citation is not unlikely here, it is impossible
— surviving is not a decision the model gets to make. A URL it invents is not a
citation either: only the marker form counts, so a plausible-looking link stays
in the prose citing nothing.
Retrieval reuses the hybrid search already in place, and each corpus keeps its
own visibility rules — the bank predicate and exam scope for questions, the
draft rule for articles, deck ownership for cards. A question source carries the
stem only: a chat that printed the answer would hand away the practice it exists
to prepare you for.
Curated links do the job they were built for. A retrieved row an educator tied
to another retrieved row is boosted, because two things somebody already linked
surfacing for one query is evidence rather than coincidence. Nothing is stored
for this; the boost lives only in that ordering, and the answer marks those
sources so the reader knows which claim rests on an educator's judgement rather
than on a ranking.
Citations are stored with the answer as filtered, so reopening a thread shows
the links it showed at the time rather than a fresh retrieval that may now rank
differently. In the page the markers become numbers and each number opens its
source; a section citation deep-links into that section.
Two smaller decisions worth naming: a question appears in the thread the moment
you send it and is handed back to the input if the answer fails, because typed
words are not something to lose on a 502; and someone else's thread returns 404
rather than 403, since whether it exists is not your business either.
182 backend, 206 frontend green — 16 of the backend tests are the citation
contract and the retrieval boundary.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
Thirteen plans were seeded with an API to serve them and nothing that called it,
so the whole feature existed only in the database. Two pages and the editing
endpoints it was missing.
/study-plans lists the plans with progress stated in blocks — "3 of 6 blocks"
is something you can act on, where "50%" only tells you how you feel about it.
/study-plans/:id is one plan: each block shows Articles, then Sessions, in that
order, because that is the order the block is meant to be done in.
Reading is now part of a block (migration f4a5b6c7d8e9). "Mark as read" is the
learner's own claim and reversible — someone who ticks the wrong row should be
able to fix it without an educator, and progress nobody can correct stops being
trusted and then stops being used. It is a separate table from `article_views`
on purpose: opening an article is not the same claim as having finished with it.
A draft article attached to a block is listed for the educator who can open it
and left out for everyone else, rather than offered as a dead link.
Editing is inline on the learner's own page rather than a separate builder, so
the thing being changed and the thing a learner sees are the same object.
Moderators create (as a draft — an empty plan is not something to put in front
of anyone), rename, publish, delete; add, rename, reorder and remove blocks;
move questions between blocks of one plan; attach reading found by searching
rather than by id.
Two places where the obvious implementation leaves the data wrong, both tested:
deleting a block out of the middle shuffles the survivors down, or the next
insert collides with a position nothing occupies; and reordering parks every row
outside the range before writing the real positions, because (plan_id, position)
is unique and the first move would otherwise collide with a position still held.
A partial order is refused rather than half-applied.
166 backend, 188 frontend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XeFQJXJTfHKTfbfsdxv57Z
Storage
Media now goes through `storage_service`, which has two backends: the container
volume, and S3/MinIO. A volume can only be mounted by one host, has no presigned
URLs and no lifecycle rules, none of which suits ~860 MB of media. Reads fall
back to the volume when an object is missing, so the existing uploads keep
working and files can migrate gradually rather than in one risky pass.
A row stores the object key, never a URL: a URL embeds the backend, so a row
holding `http://minio:9000/...` breaks the moment the backend changes.
MinIO publishes no host ports — the backend reaches it over the compose network,
and 9000/9001 are already taken on this host by other stacks.
Image libraries (migration d2e3f4a5b6c7)
An image belongs to a library, and a person is granted a library the way they are
granted a category, so access can be given to some images without giving away all
of them. Tags reuse the shared `question_tags` vocabulary rather than inventing a
media-only one. Uploads are type- and size-checked, stored through the service,
and embedded so an image can be found by what it shows.
Classification finished
The 316 questions the chooser had declined are now filed with `--force`, which
takes the nearest candidate from the same shortlist the chooser saw. 306 were
forced, 10 the chooser accepted on this pass. No question sits on a bare system
any more:
system only 2,730 -> 0
condition/subsystem 214 -> 1,782
full depth 4 -> 1,166
A forced match is a weaker signal than a chosen one, so expect more errors among
those 306 — but the original system stays as a cross-link, so nothing is lost and
they can be corrected by hand.
Tests: 8 new backend covering library scoping, edit confinement, shared-vocabulary
tags, storage indirection on upload, and type/size limits. 131 backend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WgRcMaScVEL7TBLpnAoSV9
An admin can now say "you edit Step 1 Cardiology" rather than only "you edit this
category". Each dimension on a grant is nullable and means "any"; a grant covers
the questions matching all the dimensions it sets, and holding several grants is
the union of their coverage (migration c1d2e3f4a5b6). A check constraint refuses
a grant that names nothing, which would otherwise mean "everything".
Permission checks now run against a predicate over Question rather than a set of
category ids, so the exam and discipline dimensions actually take effect on edit,
delete and bulk actions instead of being silently ignored.
Pediatrics is unbound back to a global tag. With counts already scoped by the
learner's active exam, one global row gives the right number per exam, so
scoping the row bought nothing and duplicating a 6,740-tag vocabulary per exam
would have to be repeated for every rename and merge.
Tests: 123 backend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01365DYKu14YtsBKv2ycW6eG
Editing a question now snapshots its previous state. The last 5 are kept — the
value is undoing a recent mistake, not an audit trail, and an uncapped history of
full question bodies grows without bound (migration a9b0c1d2e3f4).
A restore snapshots the current state first, so the restore is itself undoable.
History is gated by the same per-category grant that gates editing, so it cannot
be read by someone who could not have made the edit. The question editor shows
the versions with their dates and a Restore action.
Also added docs/TODO.md tracking everything requested and not yet delivered:
AI Mode and its citation contract, global search, study-plan editing and
articles-in-blocks, admin settings revamp, image libraries and question folders,
media management, nested article sections with references and per-section notes
and feedback, per-question notes and feedback in the runner, tutorial mode, the
per-question performance table, the Overview dashboard, systems subsystems, and
dropping "Pediatrics" as a discipline.
Tests: 6 new backend (snapshot on edit, cap at five newest-first, restore,
restore is undoable, refused without edit rights, unknown version). Full suites
green: 119 backend, 136 frontend, build clean.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
The PREP sets were loose admin-generated quizzes. They are now study plans: one
per year, split into blocks of 50 numbered "Block 1", "Block 2", plus a
"PREP Mixed" plan of 300 drawn at random across every year. 12 plans, 2,821
questions, applied to production.
Block membership is snapshotted rather than stored as a filter — a plan you are
part-way through must not reshuffle between visits. Re-running the seeder updates
years whose questions changed and leaves the mixed draw alone unless --reshuffle.
Starting a block reuses the learner's existing quiz for it; without that,
reopening a block would create a duplicate test each time and scatter the
attempts across them. Only questions the learner may see are included.
Tests: 113 backend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
Images were findable only by the filename someone typed. `media_assets` gives
them a title, caption, alt text, a category on the shared tree and tags, with a
weighted tsvector so they are searchable now (migration y7e8f9a0b1c2).
The embedding column is filled from the caption today. A vision-capable model can
fill it from the image itself later without another migration — and because
`embedding_model` stamps every vector, a text-embedded caption and a
vision-embedded image stay distinguishable instead of being silently mixed in one
index. Adding "media" to the embeddable kinds is all the retry task, the full
regeneration and the health report needed.
`media_tag_links.tag_id` carries no ORM-level foreign key: `question_tags` is
created by raw DDL rather than a model, so the constraint lives in the migration
where the table actually exists.
Tests: 113 backend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
An article embedded as a single vector, which finds the article but not the
paragraph — so a citation could only ever point at the top of a page. Sections
live in a JSON column and cannot carry a vector or a full-text index, so they are
now projected into `article_section_index`: one row per section with its own
embedding and weighted tsvector (migration x6d7e8f9a0b1).
- Rows are keyed by section id, so editing a section updates it, removing one
deletes it, and an unchanged section is not re-embedded on every save.
- `article_section` joins the embeddable kinds, so the retry task, the full
regeneration and the health report cover it without further changes.
- `hybrid_ids(db, query, "article_section")` searches it like any other corpus.
This is the groundwork for grouped search results (article, then the sections
that matched) and for AI citations that deep-link to the right section.
Tests: 113 backend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
Exams (migration v4b5c6d7e8f9)
"Pediatrics Boards" was a hardcoded checkbox that filtered nothing. Exams are now
rows: Pediatrics Boards and USMLE Step 2 CK ship seeded, and everything already
in the bank is linked to the boards. Membership is a link table, not a column,
because one paediatric cardiology question can count towards several exams.
The learner's choice lives on `users.active_exam_id`, so it follows them between
devices instead of sitting in one browser's storage. Choosing an exam scopes the
bank; a question with no exam links stays visible, since unlinked content is
unclassified rather than excluded. A switcher sits in the navbar.
AI mode — matching, never generating
Both entry points build a test from the educator-reviewed questions that already
exist, ranked against the request. Nothing is invented:
- POST /questions/builder/describe turns "what I want to study" into a test.
- POST /questions/builder/from-upload matches a document against the bank. The
file is read in memory and never stored — it is a search query, not a source
of questions, so there is nothing to retain or expire. 10 MB cap, 30 questions.
Handing a whole document to `websearch_to_tsquery` builds one enormous
conjunction that matches nothing, so text over 300 characters is reduced to its
most distinctive terms, OR-joined, before it reaches the lexical ranker.
Continue your study (migration w5c6d7e8f9a0)
A dashboard panel with the sessions in flight and the articles most recently
opened. `article_views` records one row per learner and article, written best
effort so a reading page never fails because a bookkeeping write did.
Tests: 5 new exam tests (active exams and counts, choice persisted and cleared,
unknown/inactive refused, bank scoping including unlinked questions, moderator-only
creation) and 7 for AI-mode matching (no questions created, invisible questions
excluded, no-match reported rather than an empty test, upload limits enforced).
Full suites green: 113 backend, 136 frontend, build clean.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
Retrieval generalised beyond questions
`_text_for_question`, `embed_question` and `hybrid_question_ids` all hardcoded
the questions table, so there was nothing to call for an article or a card. That
layer is now corpus-agnostic:
- `Embeddable` mixin gives articles and flashcards the same embedding,
embedding_model and embedded_at columns questions have, plus a weighted
full-text vector (migration u3a4b5c6d7e8).
- `embed_record(row, kind)` is one code path for all three — they share an
embedding space, so they must share the model and provenance rules too.
- `hybrid_ids(db, query, kind)` ranks any corpus; `hybrid_question_ids` stays as
a thin alias for existing callers.
- Article and flashcard search moved off `ILIKE '%term%'`, which could not find
a jaundice article from "yellow newborn".
- The retry task and full regeneration now sweep every corpus, and the health
report breaks down current/stale/missing per kind.
- Articles embed on create and on edit, with failures left to the retry task.
Quoted phrases replace the keyword-only mode
`websearch_to_tsquery` already gives "absence seizure" exact-phrase semantics,
and the semantic ranker sits out a quoted query. That covers the one case a
keyword-only toggle was for — exact lookup — per query rather than as a sticky
setting whose every position returns a subset of the default.
Full-page question editor (/questions/new, /questions/:id)
Editing happened in a cramped modal. There is now a page with room for the stem,
per-option explanations, a searchable category picker with primary plus extras,
difficulty, and images. It shows the question's id with a copy button, and
Duplicate creates a variant without retyping the stem. `GET /questions/detail/{id}`
backs it, pathed under /detail/ so it cannot shadow the static routes.
Question bank filter bar restyled — the toggle and count read as one control
instead of two grey pills crowding the result count.
Tests: 101 backend green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
Questions and articles both pointed at `question_categories`; decks had no
category at all, so the three content types could not be filtered together and a
topic's cards were unreachable from its category.
- `flashcard_decks.category_id` references the same tree (migration
t2f3a4b5c697), so one category now spans questions, articles and cards.
- `GET /flashcards/` takes `category_id` and includes descendants, so a parent
category picks up everything filed beneath it.
- `PATCH /flashcards/{id}` files or unfiles a deck, refusing a category id that
does not exist rather than storing a dangling reference.
- The cards page shows each deck's category as a selector.
Tests: 5 new backend (all three types resolve to the same id, descendant
filtering, file and unfile, unknown category refused, renaming leaves the
category alone) and 1 new frontend. Full suites green: 101 backend,
136 frontend, build clean.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpfzbZ1QTLMeVYxM2kyq8m
Search
- Retrieval was hybrid in name only: the keyword filter was applied to the SQL
query, so results were the *intersection* of the two rankers. A question that
matched the meaning but not the literal string could never be returned. It is
now a union, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (a text rank and a cosine
distance are not on comparable scales, so RRF uses only their orderings).
- Added a generated `search_vector` tsvector + GIN index, so the lexical half is
ranked full text rather than ILIKE substring matching.
- Chose Postgres + pgvector over OpenSearch/Elasticsearch: a search cluster
would add a second datastore to keep in sync and a JVM on this host, to
replace an index Postgres maintains inside the same transaction.
- Removed the keyword-only mode. It looks precise but silently drops the
question that asks the same thing in different words.
Embeddings — measured on 500 real questions, using each question's own
explanation as a paraphrase query (known answer, no hand labelling):
bge-small (local CPU, 384d) R@1 0.840 R@5 0.953 186ms/query
bge-m3 (LiteLLM proxy, 1024d) R@1 0.847 R@5 0.973 93ms/query
BGE-M3 wins on both quality and latency and needs no extra credential, since
llm.danvics.com already serves `openrouter-bge-m3`.
Three gaps this exposed, all fixed:
- Nothing recorded which model produced a stored vector, so changing models
silently mixed incomparable spaces. `embedding_model` / `embedded_at` now
stamp every vector, `GET /admin/embedding/health` reports current vs stale vs
missing, and regeneration defaults to stale-only.
- The generator read the model from env while the stamp read a Redis override,
so a vector could be labelled with a model that did not produce it. Both now
resolve through one function, with a regression test.
- Embedding at creation is best effort, and a failure left a question invisible
to semantic search forever. `retry_missing_embeddings` runs every 15 minutes
via Celery beat and backfills missing or stale rows.
- Query embeddings are cached in Redis per model, so typing is not a network
round-trip per keystroke.
`dimensions` is only sent to OpenAI's embedding-3 family; BGE-M3 rejects it.
Tests: 8 new backend tests (union not intersection, fusion ordering, per-ranker
failure degradation, provenance stamping, stale/missing accounting, generator
and stamp agreement). Full suites green: 95 backend, 127 frontend, build clean.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014yhHB8Pc7oQqyqn2Vo9DXA
Analysis / recommendations (AMBOSS parity, verified on next.amboss.com):
- GET /study-tools/recommendations ranks focus areas by the study time most
likely to raise the score. Readiness is the learner's accuracy in a category
shrunk toward their own overall accuracy in proportion to sample size, so two
unlucky answers do not read as a knowledge gap; it unlocks after 40 answers.
Relevance is the share of the bank a category holds. Counts roll up through
the category tree, so a system inherits its children's questions.
It is deliberately not called EPC and does not claim to predict an exam.
- New /analysis page: Performance and Recommendations tabs, readiness summary,
adaptive-session box, and expandable focus rows showing questions seen,
answered correctly, the linked article and a per-topic practice action.
Per-category educator grants:
- category_grants table (migration p8b9c0d1e253) plus utils/category_grants.py
resolving a grant to the category and all of its descendants.
- Question create, edit, delete, bulk and the manager summary now accept a
moderator OR an educator granted the affected categories, and refuse moves
that would push a question out of the holder's scope. Summary counts are
scoped to the grant.
- Moderator endpoints to list, add and revoke grants, plus /my-grants driving
the nav link and the manager's scope banner; grantable-users avoids handing
moderators the admin-only user list.
- GrantsPanel in the question manager: grant, list and revoke with inline
confirmation.
Question page:
- The category trail was a fixed 78px band that wrapped into several rows and
pushed the stem down the page, followed by three more stacked strips. It is
now one scrollable meta line (breadcrumb + difficulty + type) and a single
AMBOSS-style action bar (Mark / Listen / Listen through / Clear) between the
stem and the options. Difficulty is exposed on the runner payload.
Deploy fix: index.html shipped with no cache header, so browsers kept serving
the previous bundle references and a release looked like nothing had changed.
nginx now sends no-cache for HTML and immutable long-cache for hashed assets.
Tests: 16 new backend (recommendation shrinkage, roll-up, locking, grant scope
across create/edit/delete/bulk/summary, moderator gate) and 10 new frontend.
Full suites green: 88 backend, 116 frontend, build clean.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014yhHB8Pc7oQqyqn2Vo9DXA
Create/bank pages use AMBOSS-style facets: Exams, Disciplines, Symptoms, Systems, Articles, Saved. Personal question libraries with add-to-library in study modal. Adaptive session shortcuts from performance (including weakest topics). Quiz restart with fresh attempt. Category counts computed with two grouped queries. Migration n7a8b9c0d142. 63 backend and 97 frontend tests pass.
Key points on questions link into article sections (AMBOSS-style) with samples; difficulty tagging with builder/bank filters; adaptive session algorithm prefers unanswered questions then recycles older incorrect ones, weakest categories first with damping; question create/edit is now admin/educator only; expired exams no longer auto-submit on resume; exam suspend messaging updated. Migrations k4f5a6b7c819, l5a6b7c8d920, m6a7b8c9d031. 63 backend and 97 frontend tests pass.
Questions support an explanation per option, edited in the question dialog and shown in study feedback. Keys must match current options. Migration j3e4f5a6b708. 60 backend and 95 frontend tests pass.
Lab references deep-link to article sections or external sources, show linked cards with study links, and educators can attach cards and article targets. Grouped panel layout. Migration i2d3e4f5a607. 57 backend and 93 frontend tests pass.
Quiz share links replace the PIN copy with a public /share/{token} landing page; owners can enable/revoke without showing the full link. Moderated article/question comments with approval flow, bounds and rate limits. Educator AI article drafts/refine and private card generation with Celery job polling. Migrations f2a1c9d4e801 and g4b7e2f5a903. 50 backend and 85 frontend tests pass.
Recovery snapshot of the existing worktree before the Orthobullets-inspired revamp. Includes explanation images, classification snapshots, quiz visibility/resume fixes, quiz codes, TTS options and bot formatting. Secret heuristic and Python syntax checks passed; not a release or full behavioral validation.
Suspend now pauses the timer instead of letting it run out:
- 'Suspend & Leave' sends suspended=true with time_left to backend
- On resume, backend re-anchors started_at to now with held time_left
- Closing tab without suspending continues to run the timer (unchanged)
Timer-expired auto-submits are marked with expired=1 and excluded from:
- Attempt history (GET /attempts/history)
- Dashboard stats (quiz count, total attempts, average score)
- Attempt list (GET /attempts)
- DDL: ALTER TABLE quiz_attempts ADD COLUMN expired INTEGER DEFAULT 0
Course-quiz decoupling is preserved — these changes only touch
non-course quizzes (Quiz.course_id IS NULL).
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- Add reminders_disabled boolean column to users (DB source of truth).
- Scheduler reads the DB column directly; Redis no longer used for
opt-out checks.
- Scheduler now deactivates reminders when a user has no completed
attempts left for a quiz (e.g., after deleting their attempts).
- Settings API: GET returns DB value for reminders_disabled; PUT
persists that key to DB and keeps the rest of the blob in Redis.
Rollback point for Alembic wiring.
- Fully decouple course quizzes from main quiz system (hidden from
dashboard stats, history, search, results page)
- Course quiz results show "Back to Course" instead of retake/delete
- Add allow_review toggle for course creators to control answer review
- Show quiz title on course page, hide pool size from students
- Add course thumbnails to browse cards
- Replace passlib with bcrypt directly (compatible with existing hashes)
- Add HIBP breached password warnings on register/reset/change password
- Add CLI management tools (reset-password, set-role, stats, etc.)
- Fix quiz PATCH endpoint: ownership check instead of moderator-only
- Add max_length validation on course/module/lesson titles
- Fix score display bug on results page (0 of N when review disabled)
- Fix question count on course quiz start (show per-attempt, not pool)
- Improve suspend warning for timed course quizzes with max attempts
- Clean up validation error messages (show "Invalid email" not Pydantic dump)
- Add DDL migration for allow_review column
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LMS / Course System:
- Course → Module → Lesson hierarchy (any user can create)
- Lesson types: text, video (Vimeo/YouTube/local), document, quiz, live_session
- Video provider auto-detection from URL
- BBB API integration (create/join meetings) with env config
- Course enrollment with per-lesson progress tracking
- AI content generation/refinement for text lessons
- Draft/published/archived status workflow
- Subscription gate placeholder (requires_subscription flag)
- Thumbnail upload support
- Module/lesson reorder with up/down controls
User Quiz Creation:
- Any user can create quizzes from question bank (was moderator-only)
- User quizzes: is_published=0, is_shared=0 (private by default)
- Fixed section_id fallback: None instead of hardcoded 1
Manual Question Creation:
- POST /questions/create endpoint for manual MCQ entry
- CreateQuestionModal on QuestionBankPage with options, radio for correct answer
- Auto-generates embedding on creation
Frontend:
- CoursesPage: Browse/My Courses/Created tabs with search and pagination
- CourseDetailPage: Student view with module accordion, lesson viewer, progress
- CourseEditorPage: Full course builder with AI generate, question bank browser
- Courses link in Navbar
- Create Question button on Question Bank (available to all users)
Backend:
- 5 new tables: courses, course_modules, course_lessons, course_enrollments, course_lesson_progress
- Course model + schemas + router (22 endpoints)
- BBB_SERVER_URL + BBB_SECRET config
- Updated CLAUDE.md with LMS documentation
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- Users can share/unshare their flashcard decks (toggle button)
- Shared tab: paginated list of all shared decks sorted by avg rating
- Star rating system (1-5): click stars to rate, updates average live
- Each user can rate each shared deck once (upsert on re-rate)
- Admin can force-unshare any deck (remove from shared listing)
- Shared decks are study-able by anyone (read-only access)
- Owner name displayed on shared deck cards
- Load more button for shared decks (12 per page)
- New DB table: flashcard_deck_ratings (user_id+deck_id unique)
- New column: flashcard_decks.is_shared (default 0)
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- Fix: flashcard task used wrong Redis key prefix (job: vs extraction:)
causing progress to stay on "pending" after completion
- Flashcards are now user-scoped: each user sees only their own decks
- Soft-delete decks: DELETE moves to trash, ?permanent=true to destroy
- Trash tab on flashcards page: restore or permanently delete decks
- Delete individual cards with inline confirmation in browse view
- Card edit/delete now allowed for deck owner (not just moderators)
- ExtractionProgress label prop: shows "Generating Flashcards" not
"Extracting Questions" for flashcard jobs
- Added deleted_at column to flashcard_decks
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New feature: generate flashcards from PDF sections using AI, completely
separate from the existing quiz system.
Backend:
- FlashcardDeck + Flashcard models with cascade deletes
- flashcard_tag_links table for tag classification (reuses question_tags)
- /api/flashcards/ router: CRUD for decks, browse/search cards, tag filtering
- generate_flashcard_deck Celery task with chunked processing + progress
- FLASHCARD_PROMPT in extraction_modes.py (15 cards per chunk)
- "flashcard" added to admin model task types
Frontend:
- FlashcardsPage: deck grid + card browser with search/filter
- FlashcardStudyPage: flip cards, mark known/review, keyboard nav,
shuffle, progress bar, completion screen
- DocumentDetailPage: "Create Flashcards" button alongside "Extract Quiz"
- Navbar: Flashcards link
- AdminPage: flashcard in model task dropdown
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- teach.py: use _proxy_model() + pass api_key/api_base from settings (fixes LiteLLM provider error for openrouter/bedrock models)
- teach.py: accept model_id in ChatRequest so frontend can select model
- main.py: remove titan-embed-v2 from general seed, auto-delete legacy entry on startup
- main.py: kill stale idle-in-transaction DB connections at startup to prevent DDL lock hangs
- main.py: set lock_timeout=10s on DDL connection as fast-fail safety net
- TeachChat.jsx: fetch /teach/models, show selector dropdown in header when >1 model available
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Embedding:
- Embedding model now configurable via Admin UI (More tab) or LITELLM_EMBEDDING_MODEL env
- Calls LiteLLM proxy directly via httpx (bypasses LiteLLM library param validation)
- Passes dimensions=1024 to proxy; Redis setting overrides env var
- Default model: ge-gemini-embedding-001 (Gemini AI Studio, 1024-dim)
- Test button in admin UI to verify model works
- Fixed vector_service to use httpx + Redis model (was broken with non-prefixed model names)
Polly:
- Global enable/disable toggle in Admin → More settings (stored in Redis)
- /tts/voices filters out polly/* when disabled
- /tts/speak rejects polly requests when disabled
Job cancellation:
- POST /quizzes/job/{job_id}/cancel endpoint
- Cancel button on JobsPage for running jobs
- Celery task checks Redis status at each chunk boundary and exits cleanly
- Fixes DB lock on restart caused by cancelled jobs leaving open transactions
Admin UI:
- Settings tab renamed to "More" (heading: More Settings)
- Model row overflow fixed (minWidth: 0 + ellipsis on model_id)
- Embedding model search shows all proxy models (no auto-filter by "embed")
- Navbar correctly excludes cancelled/failed jobs from "extracting" count
README:
- Added Rebuild & Restart section with commands
- Updated embedding model reference
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Root cause of lost PREP 2016 quiz: deleting a section (e.g. to recreate
with different page ranges) cascade-deleted ALL quizzes attached to it,
destroying the quiz AND all its questions permanently.
Fixes:
- Section.quizzes relationship: removed cascade="all, delete-orphan"
Deleting a section no longer touches quizzes at all
- Quiz.section_id FK: changed to ON DELETE SET NULL, nullable=True
If a section is deleted, quizzes keep working (section_id becomes null)
- DB migration: drops old FK constraint and recreates with SET NULL
Also answers the question about deleting a bank question in a quiz:
- quiz_question_links FK has ON DELETE CASCADE — deleting a question
silently removes it from all quizzes
- This needs a warning UI (not yet implemented — no delete button in bank)
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Critical bug fix:
- DELETE /quizzes/{id} was returning 500 due to {\"quiz_id\": None} update using
the DB column name instead of Python attribute name (source_quiz_id).
Fixed with {QuestionModel.source_quiz_id: None, synchronize_session=False}
Extraction fix:
- Two-phase extraction was incorrectly triggering for PREP 2012/2014 format
documents that have 'Preferred Response:' in their explanation text.
Fix: check for inline 'Correct Answer:' first — if found, always use standard
extraction regardless of 'Preferred Response:' appearing elsewhere.
Quiz trash bin:
- DELETE /quizzes/{id} now soft-deletes (sets deleted_at)
- GET /quizzes/trash — list deleted quizzes (moderator)
- PATCH /quizzes/{id}/restore — restore from trash
- DELETE /quizzes/{id}/permanent — permanent delete (must be in trash first)
- TrashPage.jsx — accessible via Settings → Admin → Trash
Hide/publish quizzes:
- is_published column on quizzes (1=visible, 0=hidden)
- PATCH /quizzes/{id}/publish?published=false — hide from regular users
- Moderators see all quizzes; regular users only see published
- 👁/🙈 toggle button per quiz card (moderators only)
Quiz progress resume (cross-browser via Redis):
- POST /attempts/progress — save {answers, current_idx, mode} to Redis (7 days)
- GET /attempts/progress?quiz_id=N — retrieve saved progress
- DELETE /attempts/progress/{quiz_id} — clear on submit
- QuizPage auto-saves to Redis every 1.5s (debounced) while in progress
- ModeSelectScreen loads saved progress from server, shows Resume button
- Works across browsers, devices, and after logout
Delete attempt:
- DELETE /attempts/{id} — user can delete own attempt + clears reminders for that quiz
ConfirmButton component:
- Replaces all window.confirm() / window.prompt() across the app
- Double-click pattern: first click shows [Confirm] [Cancel] inline
- Applied to: QuizzesPage, DocumentDetailPage, QuizEditPage, QuestionBankPage
Category delete (QuestionBankPage):
- window.prompt() replaced with inline modal dialog with select dropdown
- User chooses where to move questions before deletion
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Question sharing (edits now propagate):
- quiz_question_links junction table: quizzes reference questions, not own copies
- Existing questions migrated to junction (idempotent ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING)
- from-bank and from-category create quiz by adding junction links (no copying)
- Editing a question via QuizEditPage or bank Edit modal updates the ONE record
visible in all quizzes that reference it
- Delete from quiz: only deletes Question record if no other quiz references it
- quiz_service: fixed position counter (was using len() incorrectly, now enumerate)
- question.quiz_id renamed to source_quiz_id in Python (DB column still quiz_id)
- All attempts/quizzes/search code updated to use junction helper or source_quiz_id
Bug fixes:
- PostgreSQL en_US.utf8 collation B-tree index corruption on users.email
Fixed by ALTERing column to COLLATE "C" in migration + immediate repair
- get_current_user now blocks unverified users on ALL endpoints (403 + X-Unverified header)
api/client.js intercepts X-Unverified=true and auto-logs out to /login
- Search (quiz + bank): correct_answer and explanation now included in matching_questions
so study modals work correctly
- Keyword search: order_by updated to use source_quiz_id
- Bulk category: changed from PATCH with body array to POST with Pydantic body
(fixes null category_id removal)
- Question bank: edit button added, answer highlighting removed from list view
- QuestionBankPage: Keyword/Semantic/Hybrid search toggle
- Login: login error message stays visible (removed immediate reload)
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Architecture:
- Questions are primary objects in a bank, tagged with question categories
- QuestionCategory is a separate taxonomy from QuizCategory (different concepts)
- Extraction → questions added to bank, optionally tagged to a question category
- Quizzes can be created from: individual question selection, question category, or PDF extraction
Backend:
- QuestionCategory model + question_categories table
- question_category_id column on questions table (nullable, SET NULL on delete)
- GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/question-categories/
- POST /api/question-categories/{id}/create-quiz — create quiz from all questions in a category
- PATCH /api/questions/{id}/category — assign single question to category
- PATCH /api/questions/bulk-category — assign multiple questions at once
- GET /api/questions/bank?category_id=&uncategorized= — filter by category
- QuizCreate schema now accepts question_category_id for extraction
- quiz_service.create_quiz_from_section accepts question_category_id param
Frontend:
- DocumentDetailPage: Add to Bank Category dropdown in Quiz Settings (optional)
Labels extracted questions with the selected category on creation
- QuestionBankPage: full rewrite
- Category chips for filtering (All / Uncategorized / named categories)
- Create category button inline
- Checkbox multi-select with bulk category assignment
- Create Quiz modal: choose from selected questions OR all from a category
- Each question shows its category badge and quiz source
- Study modal with instant answer feedback
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Security:
- Nginx: X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, X-XSS-Protection, CSP, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy headers
- Redis-backed login rate limiting (survives container restarts)
- Admin litellm/models endpoint: api_key moved from GET query param to POST body
- Nextcloud credentials moved from localStorage to sessionStorage (cleared on tab close)
UX / Layout:
- Login: unverified users see inline "Resend verification email" option
- QuizPage mobile: TTS Listen button on its own row below question text
- QuizPage mobile: Voice selector on its own row in header card (not squashed with timer)
- QuizEditPage: scroll position preserved after saving a question edit
Quiz Categories:
- New QuizCategory model + quiz_categories table
- category_id column added to quizzes table
- GET/POST/DELETE /api/categories endpoints
- Quizzes grouped by category in QuizzesPage; moderators can assign via 🏷 menu
- Uncategorized section shown when categories exist
Question Bank:
- GET /api/questions/bank — search all questions across quizzes
- POST /api/questions/from-bank — create new quiz from selected questions (copies, originals untouched)
- QuestionBankPage: search, checkbox select, study modal, create quiz form
- "Question Bank" link added to Navbar
Search:
- "View all N questions →" button expands to full question list
- Each question has a Study button opening in-place modal with study mode
- Summary view shows 2 questions per quiz with Study button
Extraction prompt:
- Stronger emphasis on correct_answer field with step-by-step letter → full text example
- Explicit instruction never to store just the letter
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