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# MISSION.md Format
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`MISSION.md` lives at the workspace root. It captures the _reason_ the user is learning this topic. Every teaching decision — what to teach next, which resources to surface, which exercises to design — should trace back to this document.
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## Template
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```md
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# Mission: {Topic}
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## Why
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{1-3 sentences. The concrete real-world goal the user is chasing. What changes in their life or work when they have this skill? Avoid abstract framings like "to understand X" — push for the underlying outcome.}
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## Success looks like
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- {A specific, observable thing the user will be able to do}
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- {Another specific thing}
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- {…}
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## Constraints
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- {Time, budget, prior commitments, learning preferences, anything that bounds the approach}
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## Out of scope
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- {Adjacent topics the user explicitly does not want to chase right now — protects the zone of proximal development}
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```
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## Rules
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- **One mission per workspace.** If the user wants to learn two unrelated things, that is two workspaces.
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- **Concrete over abstract.** "Run a half marathon by October" beats "get fitter." "Ship a Rust CLI to my team" beats "learn Rust."
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- **Push back on vagueness.** If the user cannot articulate why, interview them before writing anything. A bad mission is worse than no mission.
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- **Revise when reality shifts.** Missions change. When the user's goal moves, update this file — don't leave a stale mission steering future sessions.
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- **Keep it short.** If `MISSION.md` runs past a screen, it has stopped being a compass and started being a plan.
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