Study later

/tutor:study-later

Save a topic or subject to your study queue. The next time you run /tutor:study with no arguments, the queue appears as a starting option alongside Resume and the normal layer list.

Procedure

1. Determine the topic

If a prompt was given: Use it as the raw material for the title and description.

• If the prompt is ≤ 10 words and unambiguous, use it as the title and leave the description empty.
• If the prompt is longer, distil a short title (≤ 10 words) and keep the full prompt text as the description.
• If the prompt is ambiguous — e.g. "save this" with no clear referent visible in the conversation — treat it as if no prompt was given and proceed to the inference step below.

If no prompt was given (or the prompt was too ambiguous): Scan the recent conversation to identify what is being discussed. Produce a proposed title (≤ 10 words) and a one-paragraph description.

If the conversation has no discernible subject (e.g. the session was just opened and nothing has been discussed yet), skip inference and ask the user directly — see step 2.

2. Clarify if needed

Use AskUserQuestion whenever ANY of the following hold:

• The inferred title feels too vague to be useful (e.g. "Something from the chat").
• The description would be empty and the title alone is not self-explanatory.
• The topic could be interpreted in two or more meaningfully different ways.
• The prompt was explicitly ambiguous (e.g. "save this").

When asking, present the proposed title and description (if any) and ask the user to confirm or edit. Keep this to a single question — do not fire multiple clarifying rounds unless the user's answer is itself ambiguous.

3. Optionally map to a layer and topic

If docs/onboarding/index.md exists in the current repo:

1. Read the layer table from index.md.
2. For each layer doc listed, check whether the bookmark topic clearly matches a specific layer and topic in ## Topics.
3. If an obvious match exists, ask the user (via AskUserQuestion): "This looks like it maps to <layer> › <topic> — shall I link it? Linking lets /tutor:study navigate directly to that section when you pick this bookmark." Default to linking if the user confirms.
4. If no obvious match, or if onboarding docs do not exist, leave layer and topic as empty strings.

Do not force a match. When in doubt, leave them empty rather than guess.

4. Write to .tutor/saved-topics.jsonl

Append one line to .tutor/saved-topics.jsonl (create the file if it does not exist — no header, raw JSONL):

{"ts":"<UTC YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM>","type":"saved","title":"<title>","description":"<description>","layer":"<layer-id or empty>","topic":"<topic-name or empty>"}

Use the current UTC time for ts. description may be an empty string when the title is self-contained. layer and topic are empty strings when no mapping was found.

5. Confirm

Tell the user: "Saved <title> to your study queue. Run /tutor:study and choose Saved topics to pick it up later."

See also

• ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/conventions.md — .tutor/saved-topics.jsonl format and the "studied" tombstone convention.
• /tutor:study — reads the queue and surfaces it as a starting option.