[curriculum-eval] 04-github-actions-intro.md: cognitive_load — 28 new concepts in a 756-word refresher
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 82/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- github-actions, javascript, markdown, yaml
- Domain
- content, documentation
Research direction
Read workshop/04-github-actions-intro.md and identify how the refresher introduces on, jobs, and steps. Reduce the new terms to 15 or fewer, defer runner and action details to a link, shorten the agentic comparison, and add a labelled snippet exercise after each section while keeping the Checkpoint. The issue suggests running npx --yes markdownlint-cli2 "**/*.md"; done means the file meets those requested changes and the markdown lint command passes.
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Description
File: workshop/04-github-actions-intro.md
Overall Score: 5.39 / 10.0 (corpus mean: 6.09)
Flagged Dimensions:
| Dimension | Score | Benchmark | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| cognitive_load | 6.8 | ≥8 (≤15 concepts) | +13 concepts |
| active_learning | 3.9 | density ≥3 (1.18) | −1.8 density |
Root Cause: The "Quick Refresher" introduces triggers, jobs, runners, actions and steps plus an agentic comparison in one sitting; 28 concepts vs. 15 ideal.
Evidence (quoted from the file):
A GitHub Actions workflow is a YAML file in
.github/workflows/that tells GitHub: when to run (on), what to run (jobs), how each job executes (steps)
Learning Science Rationale: Miller/Sweller working-memory limits suggest ~4 new chunks at once; chunking into trigger / job / step with an activity after each reduces extraneous load.
Improvement Prompt (for an agent):
Edit workshop/04-github-actions-intro.md: reduce new terms to ≤15 by deferring runner and action details to a link, and move the "Why This Matters for Agentic Workflows" comparison to a single short paragraph. Add a short labelled-snippet exercise after each of on/jobs/steps. Keep the Checkpoint. Run npx --yes markdownlint-cli2 "**/*.md".
Expected Score After Fix: 7.0 / 10.0
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