pathmx

Imported from pathmx/pathmx-learning-starter (.agents/skills/pathmx/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add pathmx/pathmx-learning-starter --skill pathmx. Copyright stays with the author.

PathMX

Create readable Markdown that builds correctly and feels coherent in the PathMX Player.

Work from the repository

1. Read the nearest repository instructions.
2. Inspect the local config, package scripts, installed PathMX version, entry Source, and nearby examples relevant to the task.
3. Identify the Source role and audience.
4. Draft ordinary Markdown first.
5. Add Blocks, Beats, directives, components, or custom styling only when they improve structure, focus, interaction, or comprehension.
6. Preserve relative links and reuse local conventions. Do not invent syntax.
7. Build into scratch output for diagnostics.
8. For playable or visual work, use the active Player and review the exact route in an available browser.
9. Report changed Sources, verification, and any skipped live review.

Repository instructions and installed versions override these examples.

Keep the Player available

For learning and presentational work, detect a healthy Player that belongs to the current repository. Reuse it or start the repository's long-lived Play command. Do not stop an unknown listener.

Resolve Source routes with the repository's pinned CLI, normally bunx pathmx route; do not guess from filenames. Use a stable Block fragment or Play Beat position only after reading it from built metadata or the current Player URL. Link to the narrowest useful position.

When Sources share a basename such as index.path.md, build the current graph and query pathmx route with the full Source path. Never shorten an ambiguous query or present the root Path result as the exact nested Source route.

Keep route diagnosis narrow. Do not recursively search or print .pathmx; generated caches can flood the agent context and slow the learner's next turn. Use pathmx route --json and, only when needed, inspect the target Path's paths.json, serve-routes.json, sources.json, or one source map.

Use an integrated browser when it is available. In Codex, prefer @Browser. In Claude Code, use its Chrome integration when already configured. Otherwise open the system browser or give the user a clickable Player URL.

Terms

Route references

Read only what the task needs:

• Markdown authoring
• Player, Play, and route handoff
• Directives
• Questions and responses
• Annotations
• Literate Components
• Lucide icons
• Code
• Math
• Media
• Styling
• Configuration
• Tooling, setup, and verification
• Small repository example
• Shared pattern, template, component, and example library

Boundaries

• Keep Sources useful as plain Markdown.
• Use relative Source and asset links.
• Use source-facing type, not a new kind field.
• Treat learner responses and annotations as user-owned data.
• Do not update an existing project's dependency or config merely to make an example work. Follow its installed version and report a real gap.
• Do not write diagnostic output into a live .pathmx directory.
• Use only fixture-backed question mappings and component contracts.
• Do not author general actions or spaceholders from this skill yet.
• If a feature is absent or version-mismatched, state the boundary.