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Use the authoring copilot

The authoring copilot is a conversational AI assistant that drafts a scenario from a brief in plain language. It writes the trigger, the actor briefs, the phase sequence, and a starting set of weights. You remain the authority on field accuracy — the copilot proposes, you sign.

When to use it

You have the situation in your head and want to skip the cold start. Instead of staring at an empty form, describe the situation in two or three sentences and let the copilot lay down a first draft. You then adjust, accept, or discard.

If the situation is genuinely unusual — something you’ve seen once in fifteen years of practice — write the draft yourself. The copilot is strongest on situations it has lots of analogues for; it is weakest where your specific field knowledge matters most.

How to use it

In the scenario form, click Open copilot. A conversational panel opens. Describe the situation:

  • Who is involved.
  • What just happened.
  • Why it matters.
  • What you want the learner to practise.

Two or three sentences is enough. The copilot proposes a draft as a proposal card in the chat. You can:

  • Accept — the proposal fills the form. Edit anything before submitting for validation.
  • Adjust — keep talking. “Make the customer angrier”, “the patient should not volunteer the medication name”, “weight Domain Knowledge lower”. The copilot revises.
  • Discard — drop the proposal and start over.

The copilot is conversational. You can keep refining until the draft fits the situation in your head.

What the copilot does NOT decide

  • The competency vector. The copilot proposes which sub-competencies the scenario exercises, but you are the one signing the draft. If the proposal misses a dimension that is central to this work in your field, change it.
  • The weights. Same. The copilot’s defaults are reasonable; your field judgement is canonical.
  • Whether the scenario is professionally true. The realism preview runs the same AI pass and your peers run the real check. The copilot is upstream of both.

When something goes wrong

  • The proposal feels generic. Your brief was probably too short. Re-describe the situation with one or two more concrete details: the actual phrase the customer used, the time of day, the piece of equipment that failed.
  • The copilot misreads your field. Name the field explicitly in your brief — “this is a ward-handover scenario in acute care nursing”, not “this is a handover”. The copilot has many fields’ worth of patterns and benefits from disambiguation.
  • The proposal is close but the actor brief is thin. Ask the copilot to expand the brief. “Give the customer two more sentences on what they will not volunteer unprompted.”
  • You disagree with a tool the copilot called. The proposal card shows what the copilot wrote. Discard and re-prompt, or accept and edit in the form. You are not bound by the copilot’s choices.