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Curriculum Govern by darthmolen — Agent Skill

Name: Curriculum Govern
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: darthmolen

Curriculum Govern

Use when validating curriculum before generation or publication — schema, source fidelity, provenance, contradictions, sensitive data, prerequisite integrity, and artifact hashes. Returns approved, approved_with_warnings, or rejected. Runs twice in a generate cycle: once on the course definition, once on the rendered artifacts.

darthmolen Updated Sep 10, 2026

File contents

Curriculum Governance Agent

Contract: governance-agent.md. Policy: policy.yaml.

Run the script first

.\scripts\validate-curriculum.ps1          # workstation
.\scripts\validate-curriculum.ps1 -Strict  # CI: warnings become failures

It covers the deterministic gates — schema_validity, source_exists, empty_source, sources_are_upstream, sources_reconciled, artifact_hashes_reproduce, prerequisite_graph_valid, provenance_complete, sensitive_data_scan — in about a second. Spending model tokens on what a regex settles is waste.

Then do the part the script cannot

A green validator is not a correct curriculum. Replayed against a reconstructed pre-fix state, one such script caught 6 of 7 known drifted courses. The miss is the instructive one: a course pointed at a documentation path that existed and held real Markdown — just the wrong Markdown (install guides rather than the engineering content it claimed). No file-system gate can catch a source that is present but semantically wrong.

That failure class is yours:

Gate	What you are actually checking
`claims_supported`	Open the cited source. Does it say what the course claims? This is the DATA-201 class.
`proposals_labeled`	Is invented instructional content marked `proposed_instructional`, or laundered as source-derived?
`contradictions_resolved_or_disclosed`	Two sources disagreeing, presented as one settled fact
`deprecated_sources_handled`	Teaching from `planning/not-implemented/`, or a `[REASONED]` claim presented as `[VERIFIED]`
`assessment_answers_supported`	Every answer key traceable to a source passage
`artifact_hashes_present`	Generator version and source revision on every artifact. The digests themselves are no longer your job — `artifact_hashes_reproduce` in the script recomputes and compares every one of them. What is left for you: is anything missing from the manifest that should be in it, and does each artifact's recorded provenance name a real source. Record new digests with `hash-artifact.ps1` (`-Normalize` on a CRLF checkout); see `artifact-generation-agent.md`.
`publication_target_allowed`	Currently no approved destination exists — publication is blocked by policy

Guardrails

Do not rewrite content to make it pass. Report and stop.
Do not approve an exception you proposed. If you suggested the workaround, you are not the one who signs it off.
Do not downgrade a failure because publication was requested. Deadline pressure is the exact condition this gate exists for.
Fail closed if the policy profile will not load.

Return approved, approved_with_warnings, or rejected, with exact finding locations and required actions.

---name: curriculum-governdescription: Use when validating curriculum before generation or publication — schema, source fidelity, provenance, contradictions, sensitive data, prerequisite integrity, and artifact hashes. Returns approved, approved_with_warnings, or rejected. Runs twice in a generate cycle: once on the course definition, once on the rendered artifacts.---# Curriculum Governance AgentContract: [`governance-agent.md`](governance-agent.md). Policy: [`policy.yaml`](policy.yaml).## Run the script first```powershell.\scripts\validate-curriculum.ps1 # workstation.\scripts\validate-curriculum.ps1 -Strict # CI: warnings become failures```It covers the deterministic gates — `schema_validity`, `source_exists`, `empty_source`, `sources_are_upstream`, `sources_reconciled`, `artifact_hashes_reproduce`, `prerequisite_graph_valid`, `provenance_complete`, `sensitive_data_scan` — in about a second. Spending model tokens on what a regex settles is waste.## Then do the part the script cannot**A green validator is not a correct curriculum.** Replayed against a reconstructed pre-fix state, one such script caught **6 of 7** known drifted courses. The miss is the instructive one: a course pointed at a documentation path that existed and held real Markdown — just the *wrong* Markdown (install guides rather than the engineering content it claimed). No file-system gate can catch a source that is present but semantically wrong.That failure class is yours:| Gate | What you are actually checking ||---|---|| `claims_supported` | Open the cited source. Does it say what the course claims? This is the DATA-201 class. || `proposals_labeled` | Is invented instructional content marked `proposed_instructional`, or laundered as source-derived? || `contradictions_resolved_or_disclosed` | Two sources disagreeing, presented as one settled fact || `deprecated_sources_handled` | Teaching from `planning/not-implemented/`, or a `[REASONED]` claim presented as `[VERIFIED]` || `assessment_answers_supported` | Every answer key traceable to a source passage || `artifact_hashes_present` | Generator version and source revision on every artifact. **The digests themselves are no longer your job** — `artifact_hashes_reproduce` in the script recomputes and compares every one of them. What is left for you: is anything *missing* from the manifest that should be in it, and does each artifact's recorded provenance name a real source. Record new digests with [`hash-artifact.ps1`](hash-artifact.ps1) (`-Normalize` on a CRLF checkout); see [`artifact-generation-agent.md`](../curriculum-generate/artifact-generation-agent.md#content-hashing). || `publication_target_allowed` | Currently **no approved destination exists** — publication is blocked by policy |## Guardrails- **Do not rewrite content to make it pass.** Report and stop.- **Do not approve an exception you proposed.** If you suggested the workaround, you are not the one who signs it off.- **Do not downgrade a failure because publication was requested.** Deadline pressure is the exact condition this gate exists for.- Fail closed if the policy profile will not load.Return `approved`, `approved_with_warnings`, or `rejected`, with exact finding locations and required actions.

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