AI Personal Tutor ToolkitStructured writing support

Release history

Changelog

Version history for the site package, prompt-library suite and testing/audit pack.

v4.4.1 — Site entry-route and download guidance refresh

Site package: v4.4.1
Prompt libraries: v4.4.1
Testing/audit pack: v4.4.1

This minor release refreshes student-facing site copy without changing tutor behaviour. It promotes Try It as the quickest route, reframes the no-ghost-writing boundary as “your work stays yours,” keeps tool codes visible as stable handles while making tool names lead, and adds download guidance based on whether the user’s AI setup handles long prompts reliably.

v4.4.0 — In-tool help system and EAL mode

Site package: v4.4.0
Prompt libraries: v4.4.0
Testing/audit pack: v4.4.0

This release adds a shared in-tool help system to the prompt libraries. Full-review tools now advertise help after outputs, tiered-review tools keep help distinct from expand, and interactive tools handle stuckness inline. It also adds an opt-in EAL on / EAL off flag for clearer explanations and key-term support without lowering the academic level or rewriting student work.

v4.3.0 — Tiered output for long review tools

Site package: v4.3.0
Prompt libraries: v4.3.0
Testing/audit pack: v4.3.0

This release adds summary-first, expandable output to selected long review tools: ST1, ST2, ST3, AT7 and AT9. These tools now analyse the whole input before choosing priorities, show a short usable first response, and produce fuller detail when the student asks to expand. WT4 remains ungated: it still shows every in-scope mistake, now with a short first-focus note before the full list.

v4.2.1 — WT4 answer-boundary patch

Site package: v4.2.1
Prompt libraries: v4.2.1
Testing/audit pack: v4.2.1

This narrow patch keeps WT4 — Find My Mistakes inside its writing-mistake role. It removes broad fact-checking/source-checking drift and updates the audit pack so WT4 outputs are marked down if they become specialist subject-answering, source-checking, evidence-checking or citation-substance services.

v4.2 — Writing Tutor router, flow and subject tools

Site package: v4.2
Prompt libraries: v4.2
Testing/audit pack: v4.2

This release adds WT1 — Which Writing Tool Should I Use?, renumbers the Writing Tutor family, adds WT9 Flow and Coherence and WT10 Learn Subjects, and updates testing/audit and site pages to match the v4.2 tool map.

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v4.1 — WT7 paraphrase and quotation workshop

Site package: v4.1
Prompt libraries: v4.1
Testing/audit pack: v4.1

This release adds WT7 to the Writing Tutor family for paraphrase, quotation, attribution and reporting-verb coaching. It rebuilds master, mini, custom and single-tool prompt-library downloads and updates the testing/audit pack with WT7 source-use cards.

v4.0 — Consolidation, generated packs and testing update

Site package: v4.0
Prompt libraries: v4.0
Testing/audit pack: v4.0

This release consolidates the prompt-library source around the default teaching loop, updates tool behaviour across the writing, structure, academic-thinking, research-proposal and study-workflow tools, rebuilds master, mini, custom and single-tool downloads, and updates the testing/audit pack with the output collector and v4 regression checks.

v3.12 — Single-tool download directory

Site package: v3.12
Prompt libraries: v3.6
Testing/audit pack: v3.5

This site-only release adds a single-tool downloads page for students using free-tier AI tools or platforms with small upload limits. It links to the generated individual Markdown tool files and the all-single-tools ZIP, without changing tutor prompt source files or generator scripts.

v3.11 — AI-literacy guidance, library sync and testing-pack hygiene

Site package: v3.11
Prompt libraries: v3.5
Testing/audit pack: v3.5

This release adds Student Help and Guides content on repeated whole-project use, AI imperfection and transferable AI-literacy skills. It also synchronises the master prompt library with the mini-libraries and updates the step-by-step test cards so they no longer point to a stale audit-prompt filename.

v3.10 — Tutor guidance and Examples page update

Site package: v3.10
Prompt libraries: v3.4
Testing/audit pack: v3.4

This site-only release reorganises the tutor and teacher guide, adds safe suggested wording for recommending the toolkit to students, adds guidance that students can disagree with AI feedback, simplifies the Examples page to one unedited real-world WT1 response, and moves the “Choosing and setting up an AI” guide up one position on the Guides page.

v3.9 — Student Help structure fix

Site package: v3.9
Prompt libraries: v3.4
Testing/audit pack: v3.4

This site-only release restores the main Student guide at students.html and moves the AI setup guidance to a separate Student AI setup guide. The Student Help home page now introduces the main Student guide as “What this is and how to get started.”

v3.8 — AI setup and student setup guidance

Site package: v3.8
Prompt libraries: v3.4
Testing/audit pack: v3.4

This site-only release replaces the placeholder setup page with a tutor guide on choosing and setting up an AI system, including access, model/mode choice, free-plan limits, Projects/workspaces and shared custom AIs. It also simplifies the Student guide so it focuses on experimenting with available AI systems, using thinking/reasoning modes where available, managing free-plan usage, and optionally using Projects or workspaces.

v3.7 — Teaching approach and Student guide rewrite

Site package: v3.7
Prompt libraries: v3.4
Testing/audit pack: v3.4

This site-only release rewrites the Teaching approach page around writing as thinking, ideas first, manageable feedback, “I’m stuck” support and development rather than completion. It also rewrites the Student guide in a more direct paragraph-first style, with clearer benefits, getting-started guidance, pushback advice and privacy/responsibility notes.

v3.6 — Student guidance, pushback and WT1 option reminder

Site package: v3.6
Prompt libraries: v3.4
Testing/audit pack: v3.4

This release revises the Student guide into a more paragraph-first reading page, adds guidance that students should push back when AI feedback seems wrong, adds global prompt rules for student correction and specialist uncertainty, and strengthens WT1 so the first response keeps the “ask for more options” escape route.

v3.5 — Launcher minimum content and paragraph-first site design

Site package: v3.5
Prompt libraries: v3.3
Testing/audit pack: v3.3

This release strengthens launcher minimum-content rules so AI models should not compress menus down to tool lists. It adds testing/audit checks for launcher minimum content, adds a paragraph-first design rationale to the Teaching approach page, and cleans up the Tools and Examples pages to better match the v3 reading-first design.

v3.4 — Startup activation and launcher fidelity

Site package: v3.4
Prompt libraries: v3.2
Testing/audit pack: v3.2

This release strengthens startup behaviour and menu fidelity. Prompt libraries now state that the launcher is the only source for menu output, while the manifest and router are internal sections not for output. Selected-tool headings now show the visible prompt-library version, and the site shows the current prompt-library version near downloads.

v3.3 — Startup activation and launcher maintenance

This release updates prompt libraries to v3.1 and testing/audit pack to v3.1. It adds explicit startup activation instructions so uploaded libraries activate as tutor instructions rather than being summarised. It also simplifies launcher menus, removes horizontal divider clutter, tightens selected-tool start prompts, and updates WT1 to use a paragraph-first teaching response with deferred options.

Site v3.3 — testing/audit v3 alignment

Site package: v3.2
Prompt libraries: v3.0
Testing/audit pack: v3.0

Updated the testing/audit pack to check the v3 prompt-library behaviours: paragraph-first tutor style, manageable feedback, writing as thinking, plain-English grammar explanations and “I’m stuck” support.

Changelog

Version history.

A short record of major changes to the toolkit files and site.

Site v3.1 — site alignment with v3 tutor style

Site package: v3.1
Prompt libraries: v3.0
Testing/audit pack: v2.10

Updated the public website to reflect the v3 prompt-library principles: structured and specialist writing support, paragraph-first tutor style, manageable feedback, “I'm stuck” support, writing as thinking, and clearer scope as writing, revision, academic thinking, research planning and study workflow support.

Prompt-library and testing/audit pack behaviour did not change in this site stage.

Site v3.0 — paragraph-first tutor style and writing-as-thinking revision

Site package: v3.0
Prompt libraries: v3.0
Testing/audit pack: v2.10

Updated the current prompt-library downloads and master library with the v3 tutor-style revision: paragraph-first output, manageable feedback, the “I'm stuck” support model, writing-as-thinking guidance, clearer toolkit scope, and plain-English grammar-term support.

Rebuilt the latest prompt-library downloads and added a fixed v3.0 prompt-library archive. Testing/audit pack behaviour did not change.

Site v2.25 — homepage, guide and testing polish

Site package: v2.25
Prompt libraries: v2.5
Testing/audit pack: v2.10

Updated the homepage wording and layout using the revised student-facing draft, updated the Student Help and Guides home pages, and simplified individual tool-detail pages with a separate tool-code column.

Updated the testing/audit pack to v2.10 with a deadline-pressure adversarial stress test. Prompt-library behaviour did not change.

Site v2.24 — prompt-library maintenance

Site package: v2.24
Prompt libraries: v2.5
Testing/audit pack: v2.9

Updated the current prompt-library downloads and master library with maintenance refinements: active public release status, level/discipline/task calibration, WT6 house-style fallback wording, a WT3 correction-boundary worked example, and AT10 “useful starting point” wording.

Rebuilt the latest prompt-library downloads and added a fixed v2.5 prompt-library archive. Testing/audit pack behaviour did not change.

Site v2.23 — site and testing/audit maintenance

Site package: v2.23
Prompt libraries: v2.4
Testing/audit pack: v2.9

Updated the testing/audit pack with clearer two-chat workflow guidance, rating boundaries, N/A evidence-table guidance, stronger SW3 testing, date-based filename examples and a test log that records AI tool/model and plan/access level.

Also refined the Examples page, Student Help pages, Guides pages and Tools directory wording. Prompt-library behaviour did not change.

Site v2.22 — developer prompt documentation

Site package: v2.22
Prompt libraries: v2.4
Testing/audit pack: v2.8

Added repository-level developer documentation so prompt libraries remain easy to find after the move to docs/. Added PROMPTS.md, CUSTOMISING_PROMPTS.md, a quiet public customising guide page, and an About page note for developers and departments.

No prompt-library or testing/audit behaviour changed.

Site v2.21 — docs/tools/examples structure cleanup

Site package: v2.21
Prompt libraries: v2.4
Testing/audit pack: v2.8

This release moves the public website into the docs/ folder for GitHub Pages publishing, moves tool pages into docs/tools/, moves the examples page into docs/examples/, and removes the old root-level changelog compatibility page.

No prompt-library or testing/audit behaviour changed.

Site v2.21 — Student Help section

Added a new top-level Student Help section and moved the student-facing guide pages into student-help/. The Guides section now focuses on educator, pedagogy, technical and reference pages.

No prompt-library or testing/audit behaviour changed.

Site v2.19 — structure and homepage language cleanup

Moved guide pages into a guides/ subfolder, moved detailed site update notes under changelog/site-update-notes/, rewrote the README as a user-facing introduction, reduced Markdown-heavy wording on the homepage, and replaced the Markdown guide with clearer user guidance.

Prompt-library behaviour and testing/audit behaviour did not change.

Site v2.18 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Added a new guide page: guide-why-educators.html.
  • Added a Guides card for “Why educators should consider this toolkit”.
  • The new page makes the educator and university-facing case for structured prompt libraries as an alternative to unstructured student AI use.
  • No prompt-library or testing/audit pack behaviour changed.

Site v2.17 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Expanded the About page with creator, repository, discussion and positioning information.
  • Added student-facing explanatory text about using ordinary AI tools as tutors rather than ghost-writers.
  • Rewrote the tutor and teacher guide in plainer, less jargony language.
  • Updated the Other AI tutoring resources page introduction and resource table wording.
  • Added an About card to the Guides page.
  • No prompt-library or testing/audit pack behaviour changed.

Site v2.16 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Moved site update notes into the site-update-notes/ folder.
  • Added an About page with initial project links.
  • Added Other AI tutoring resources, Markdown, and free-tier guide pages.
  • Cleaned Guides wording so not every guide is described as practical.
  • No prompt-library or testing/audit pack behaviour changed.

Site v2.15 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Cleaned up the public navigation so the top level now focuses on Home, Tools, Examples and Guides.
  • Moved Teaching approach, Testing and Changelog into the Guides section while keeping their existing page URLs.
  • Simplified the Guides home page and added student, tutor and technical guide labels.
  • Reordered the homepage so the mini-library download section appears earlier, immediately after the hero area.
  • Moved the Paragraph logic before polish explanation from the homepage to the end of the Teaching approach page.
  • Added a footer link row: Testing | Changelog | Teaching approach | About this site.
  • Added a blank About this site page for future content.
  • No prompt-library or testing/audit pack behaviour changed.

Site v2.14 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Added a new top-level Guides navigation item.
  • Added a Guides home page linking to student, tutor/teacher, writing workflow, first-draft pedagogy and setup guide pages.
  • Added full Student Guide, Tutor and Teacher Guide, Writing Workflow Guide, and Why this is not a first-draft generator guide.
  • Added a placeholder Setup Guide page marked Coming soon.
  • No prompt-library or testing/audit pack behaviour changed.

Site v2.13 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Added visible release stamps to the current prompt-library and testing/audit Markdown downloads.
  • Aligned current file headings with their suite-level release labels so the public downloads no longer appear to carry older internal versions.
  • Added release_manifest.md to show how the public latest/ downloads map to the fixed archive folders.
  • Clarified the difference between the site package version, prompt-library suite version and testing/audit pack version.
  • No tool behaviour changed in this maintenance release.

Site v2.12 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Fixed the Testing page header so it uses the same site header and hero pattern as the other public pages.
  • Added a CSS alias so button-row and btn-row render consistently.
  • No prompt-library or testing/audit behaviour changed.

Site v2.11 / Libraries v2.4 / Testing pack v2.8

  • Updated WT3 so simple mistakes can be corrected directly while complex clause-level issues are explained rather than turned into near-complete replacement sentences.
  • Added a plain-English grammar-note test to reduce unnecessary terminology in WT3 explanations.
  • Added a WT3 challenge-response protocol so valid student pushback is acknowledged explicitly before the mistake list is revised.
  • Updated the audit prompt, educator guide and step-by-step test cards with WT3 regression checks.

Site v2.10 / Libraries v2.3 / Testing pack v2.7

  • Updated WT5 so style-and-clarity feedback uses location, issue, reader effect, move to make, and student-owned revision prompts.
  • Reduced authorship drift by removing polished replacement sentences as the default WT5 output pattern.
  • Added WT5 vague-meaning guidance so the tool asks clarification questions rather than specifying the student's research focus on their behalf.
  • Added a strong-passage teaching pattern so students learn from parts of their own writing that already work well.
  • Updated the audit prompt and step-by-step test cards with WT5 regression checks.

Site v2.9 / Libraries v2.2 / Testing pack v2.6

  • Updated ST1 so it checks central claim clarity before diagnosing paragraph development, evidence, links or polish.
  • Added guidance to distinguish an unclear or unformed central claim from merely thin development.
  • Tightened ST1 follow-up boundaries so examples use fictional topics rather than near-usable sentences based on the student's own source material.
  • Added guidance on handling marker, tutor or supervisor feedback as evidence of reader confusion, not as a marker-response service.
  • Updated the audit prompt and ST1 test card so this central-claim issue is checked in future regression testing.

Site v2.8 / Libraries v2.1 / Testing pack v2.5

  • Fixed version consistency across library front matter, visible headers and download folders.
  • Removed duplicate global AI-behaviour guidance from the prompt libraries.
  • Consolidated repeated precision-before-polish wording in clinic-style guidance.
  • Fixed audit-pack instructions so step-by-step cards point to the correct audit prompt version.
  • Updated the homepage from the current student-facing version and removed developer folder details from student-facing copy.

Site v2.6 / Libraries v2.0 / Testing pack v2.4

  • Added version-folder structure: current downloads live in prompt-libraries/latest/ and audit-library/latest/.
  • Added fixed release copies in prompt-libraries/v2.0/ and audit-library/v2.4/.

Libraries v2.0 — WT2 paragraph logic update

  • Updated WT2 Single Paragraph Analysis so it starts with the paragraph's chain of ideas, missing links and “so what?” questions.
  • Added controlled modelling rules for paragraph logic examples.
  • Updated WT2 audit tests and criteria.

Libraries v1.9 — Precision before polish

  • Added meaning-preservation rules so the tools do not silently swap key terms for more academic-sounding alternatives.
  • Updated WT1 and WT5 to guard against academicising that changes meaning.

Earlier releases

Earlier versions created the five mini libraries, the master library, the testing pack, tool codes, privacy/responsibility notes, language settings and the multi-page website.