Quest Ladder
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Quest Ladder / Authoring lanes
Manual build, Assisted build and AI build
Pick how much of the first draft you want to write yourself. You can change your mind at any point without losing work.
AI supplies the heat. You do the forging.
Choosing a lane
Every question type is built in one of three lanes. The chooser sits at the top of the editor and asks you to Choose how you want to work — speed, staged review, or full control.
The lane is not a property of the type. It is remembered per draft, so you can start in one and switch to another mid-way; what you have written stays exactly where it is.
What each one does
Manual build
Hand-built from scratch, no AI. You define the changing values, build each section from rich blocks, set the learning blocks, preview and mark ready.
Assisted build
The same editor, with an AI assistant on every step. You can pin a finished type as a worked exemplar to guide the structure without copying its subject matter.
AI build
Complete the setup, then one full build generates the variables, the content and the learning in a single pass.
The middle lane is the one most people settle on. It is not a halfway house in the sense of being half-featured: it is the same deterministic editor as Manual build, with a Generate and Refine control beside each section. You decide section by section whether to write it or ask for a draft.
Which to pick
| Pick | When |
|---|---|
| Manual build | The question is unusual, the marking is subtle, or you already know exactly what you want and describing it would take longer than writing it. |
| Assisted build | You know the shape but not every word. Also the right lane for fixing one weak section of an otherwise good type. |
| AI build | You want a complete first draft to react to, or you are making the twentieth type in a familiar family. |
Opening a type that already has content changes the AI lane's offer: instead of building from nothing it shows Keep and improve alongside Rebuild from scratch. Read which one is selected before you run it.
What is the same in all three
The lanes differ only in where the first draft comes from. Everything else is shared, which is why switching costs nothing:
- The same stages and steps, in the same order.
- The same shared settings — scoring, timing, hint timing, the answer policy.
- The same preview, render verification and teacher review.
- The same publishing gate: a type with render errors cannot be published in any lane.
You may also meet three older lane names — Quick setup, Step by step and Full editor. They are the previous generation of this chooser and now resolve to AI build. Nothing you built under them is affected.