Didactopus

Didactopus is a local-first AI-assisted autodidactic mastery platform designed to help motivated learners achieve genuine mastery through Socratic mentoring, structured practice, project work, verification, and competency-based evaluation.

Tagline: Many arms, one goal — mastery.

This revision adds

• dependency and compatibility checks for domain packs
• version-range validation against the Didactopus core version
• local dependency resolution across installed packs
• richer pack manifests
• repository artwork under artwork/
• tests for dependency and compatibility behavior

Domain packs

Didactopus supports portable, versioned domain packs that can contain:

• concept maps
• roadmap templates
• project blueprints
• rubrics
• benchmark tasks
• resource guides

Packs can depend on other packs, enabling layered curricula and reusable foundations.

Artwork

The repository includes whimsical project art at:

• artwork/didactopus-mascot.png

Suggested future additions:

• artwork/didactopus-banner.png
• artwork/didactopus-logo.png

Quick start

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
python -m didactopus.main --domain "statistics" --goal "practical mastery"
pytest