[workshop-sim] Repair: Move Copilot-access check earlier in first-workflow step (07-your-first-workflow.md)
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- 66/100
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Research direction
Start in 07-your-first-workflow.md and locate the Copilot access verification block below the Before You Start section. Read 07d-confirm-model-access.md and side-quest-07d-billing-paths.md to find the billing link to reuse. Move the block above Before You Start and add one inline link to the billing side quest beside it, leaving the walkthrough, frontmatter notes and checkpoint checklist unchanged. Done when the block comes first, the link is present, and npx markdownlint-cli2 reports no new errors.
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Description
Problem statement
07-your-first-workflow.md (combined with 07d-confirm-model-access.md) is the highest conditional-dropout step in the simulation (21.5% among 21,768 at-risk runs), with copilot-access-missing responsible for 3,879 of 4,685 total failures (83%) — far outweighing workflow-authoring-friction (806 failures). Content-level evaluation confirms the page's authoring, compile, and push instructions are solid (stateReadiness 70/100, pathClarity 55/100) with complete, checkpoint-backed billing handoff via side-quest-07d-billing-paths.md. The problem is sequencing: the "Verify Copilot access before you begin" block appears after the "Before You Start" prerequisites section but before any repo/skill setup is confirmed, and the billing decision itself is deferred to Step 7d/side quest rather than being visible at the point where access actually blocks progress.
Proposed change
Move the Copilot-access verification block to the very top of 07-your-first-workflow.md, ahead of "Before You Start," and add one inline link to side-quest-07d-billing-paths.md directly beside the access check (not only reachable later via Step 7d), so learners who lack access or billing configuration are redirected to fix it before investing time in workflow authoring. Do not remove or shorten the prompt-based workflow-creation walkthrough, the frontmatter explanation, or the existing checkpoint checklist — those are unaffected by this access-sequencing fix.
Failure mode classification: Access barrier (missing Copilot license or billing configuration encountered too late in the flow, not a conceptual or scaffolding gap).
Quantitative guardrail
- Current
overall_scorefor07-your-first-workflow.md: 6.25/10 - Weakest rubric dimensions:
checkpoint_quality0.0/10 (shared detection gap across all 30 steps — see report),scaffolding5.0/10 - Current learning KPI index for this step:
(2.0×6.3 + 2.0×0.0 + 1.5×5.0) / 5.5= 3.65/10 (active_learning 6.3, checkpoint_quality 0.0, scaffolding 5.0) - This is a sequencing/access fix, not a content-density change: moving an existing verification block earlier and adding one inline link should not reduce
active_learning,readability, orscaffolding, sooverall_scoreand the learning KPI index should stay flat or improve.
Acceptance criteria
- The shared curriculum quantitative assessment
overall_scorefor07-your-first-workflow.mdstays flat or improves after the change - The step's learning KPI index
(2.0×active_learning + 2.0×checkpoint_quality + 1.5×scaffolding)/5.5stays flat or improves - The existing prompt-based workflow-authoring walkthrough, compile/push instructions, and end-of-page checkpoint checklist are preserved unchanged
- Markdown passes
npx --yes markdownlint-cli2 "**/*.md"with no new errors
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