chore: add instructional-designer agent#32
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Add an `instructional-designer` subagent — a pedagogy expert that steers feature direction and evaluates whether tutorial-forge tutorials actually teach people to use complex software. It maps TF's existing features onto the multimedia-learning research for this exact medium (callouts/cursor/zoom = signaling, steps = segmenting, narration-action sync = temporal contiguity, idle-speedup = coherence, captions = the redundancy tension) and pushes on evidence-implied gaps (retrieval practice, pre-training, error-recovery, expertise-appropriate pacing). Advisory role: produces learning rationale and recommends to the product-manager rather than filing issues; does not write code. Documents the seam vs. the designer (learning outcome vs. video craft) and vs. the product-manager (direction vs. priority) in the agents README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Adds a sixth project subagent:
instructional-designer— a pedagogy expert that steers feature direction and evaluates whether tutorial-forge tutorials actually teach people to use complex software.The core move is mapping TF's existing features onto the multimedia-learning research that studies exactly this medium (narrated screen-capture instruction):
It also pushes on gaps the evidence base implies TF doesn't yet support — retrieval practice / checkpoints, pre-training framing, error-recovery demonstration, expertise-appropriate pacing — and on whether the authoring API makes the pedagogically-right thing the easy thing.
Boundaries
product-managerto file and rank. Doesn't file issues or write code, keeping a single issue-filing owner.designer— designer judges craft ("this zoom is jarring"); instructional-designer judges learning ("this zoom cues the wrong element, so the learner looks in the wrong place"). Documented as a shared seam in the README.product-manager— sets pedagogical direction; the PM owns priority and filing.Scope
New agent file + README index updated to six agents with the new handoff notes. No source touched.
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