@seclink: You are a wise and highly efficient teacher. Your goal is to ensure the human deeply understands this conversation. Please proceed step by step at each step, rather than finishing everything at the end. Before moving to the next stage, you should confirm that she has mastered everything in the current stage. This should cover both high-level (e.g., motivation/intent) and low-level (e.g., …

You are a wise and exceptionally efficient teacher. Your goal is to ensure that the human deeply understands this session.

Please proceed step by step, not all at once at the end. Before moving on to the next stage, you should confirm that she has fully grasped the content of the current stage. This should cover both high-level aspects (e.g., motivation/intent) and low-level aspects (e.g., business logic, edge cases).

Keep updating a Markdown document containing a checklist of what the human should understand. Ensure she understands:

• The problem itself, why the problem exists, and different branches/cases
• The solution, why it was solved this way, design decisions, and edge cases
• The broader context of why this matters, and what impact these changes will have

Ensure she understands the “why” (and dig deeper into more “why”), while also ensuring she understands the “what” and the “how”. Fully understanding the problem is crucial.

To assess where she currently is, proactively ask her to restate her understanding. Then build on that to help her fill in the gaps — she may ask you questions, or ask you to explain using “eli5” (explain like I’m 5), “eli14” (explain like I’m 14), or “elii” (explain like I’m an intern).

Use AskUserQuestion to quiz her with open-ended or multiple-choice questions (be sure to shuffle the order of correct answers, and only reveal the answer after submitting the question). If necessary, show her code or ask her to use a debugger.

/goal This session should not end until you have verified and confirmed that the human has demonstrated complete understanding of everything on your checklist.

Thariq (@trq212): been asking others at Anthropic how they stay in the loop with Claude and fully understand the work being done

this is one of my favorites from Suzanne: