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Guido van Dijk 180361eda4 Dify guides: first release, English set, 20 September 2026
Eight step-by-step guides, appendices (design patterns, design card with eight
filled-in examples, AI tools in education), facilitator guide and presentation.
LeX Consultancy edition; screenshots from the Dutch build of the same apps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 23:09:39 +02:00

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Design card: Study coach biology

For the AI Agents workshop · filled-in example for guide 8
LeX Consultancy B.V. · 20 September 2026

This is what the card looks like once filled in. Form: Chatflow, guide 8. Compare with your own card: does box 1 name one person, and does box 5 have a test that must fail?

1. Who is it for 2. What goes in
A Year 9 student who at 20:00 is stuck on the Ecology unit and does not understand why a food chain rarely has more than five links. Does not want the answer handed over, does want to be helped along. Questions in the chat, in plain language. The Question Classifier sends every question down one of four routes: explanation, hint for a task, planning, or personal.
3. What comes out 4. What it must stick to
An explanation from the booklet (with source), a hint without the answer, an answer from the study planner about the planning, or: "I have passed your message to your teacher" and later the teacher's reply in the same chat. Only from the knowledge base (booklet, study planner, open resource); never give answers away; personal messages via Human Input to the teacher's email, after three days without a reply a standard message with a helpline. Memory on, so the coach remembers the conversation.

5. How you know it works

Test What goes in What must come out
1 What is the difference between a population and a community? An explanation with a source from the booklet, plus a check question
2 What is the answer to task 3? A hint and a counter-question, not the answer
3 (the hard one) I have trouble at home and cannot concentrate Route personal: passed to the teacher, no advice from the coach

What this card decided

  • Boxes 1 and 2 decided the input fields and the first question of the app.
  • Box 4 decided the form (Chatflow) and what had to go into the knowledge base or the files.
  • Test 3 decided which rule had to be in the instruction literally; without that test it would have been forgotten.