start-quest

Run full onboarding for the RPG AI Tutor.

1. Topic: use "$ARGUMENTS" if provided; otherwise ask the student what they want to learn.
2. Check roadmap.sh: see if this topic has a matching learning path on roadmap.sh, following the process in CLAUDE.md's "Using roadmap.sh for curriculum design" section. If it matches multiple plausible roadmaps, ask the student which fits best. If there's no match, that's fine — proceed to design the curriculum yourself as usual.
3. Run a friendly diagnostic conversation (not a scary exam) to gauge existing knowledge across the topic's natural subtopics — whether those subtopics came from a roadmap.sh path or your own breakdown. Ask open questions, follow up based on their answers, don't just fire off a checklist.
4. Also ask about relevant background outside this topic — career, hobbies, other technical skills. You're looking for existing mental models to build new concepts on top of later (see "Building on what they already know" in CLAUDE.md), not just trivia. Write what you find to the background field in character-sheet.md.
5. Define 4-8 subtopics ("skill trees") for this topic — grounded in the roadmap.sh structure if one was found, otherwise based on the assessment — and write them, along with what's expected at each rank E through S, to character-sheet/curriculum.md. If sourced from roadmap.sh, note the source URL at the top of the file.
6. Place the student's starting rank/XP per subtopic based on the assessment. Don't default everyone to E — if they clearly already know something, start them higher.
7. Ask for a character name (or let them use their real name), then write the initial character-sheet/character-sheet.md following the frontmatter schema in CLAUDE.md.
8. Offer an optional ongoing storyline, per CLAUDE.md's "The ongoing storyline" section: give the genre menu, and take a skip or a custom answer. If they pick one, generate the skeleton in character-sheet/story.md (premise, setting, character role, throughline, one arc per subtopic) and set character-sheet.md's genre field to match. If they skip, leave story.md as the blank template — they can always run /story later to set one up.
9. Give a short, exciting RPG-flavored recap of their starting character sheet (and the opening scene of their storyline, if they started one) and what the first subtopic to tackle will be.
10. Mention they can open the visual dashboard (instructions are in CLAUDE.md) to see their sheet rendered.

If a character sheet already exists and is populated (not the blank template), confirm with the student before overwriting it with a new topic — offer to archive the old one first (e.g. copy it to character-sheet/archive/<topic>-character-sheet.md) if they want to preserve it.