Study mode is gone: no more untimed sessions with the reference
solutions open from the start. The path is now objective drills against
the clock, then a mock, then the fixed sets, and an objective is done
when every task passed on its latest timed attempt. In the lobby "Study
mode" becomes "Drill an objective" (the objective list, with one
"Against the clock" button per objective); ./ksim study is removed and
./ksim next always drills. study-<track>.json keeps focus, known and the
done stamps; results of old study sessions stay in it, read by nothing.
Also in this commit, from the work before it:
- ./ksim skip / unskip, and links beside each domain in the lobby: mark
a domain or an objective as known, so the path, the no-argument drill
and drill all leave it out; a mock still draws from every domain
- DOMAIN:N picks N tasks of a domain, spread over its objectives
- a command with neither --track nor KSIM_TRACK is for the track whose
session is under way; ./ksim show says where the task's host resolves
- CKAD Q60: the check names which file holds which run's output
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JZPd3GGWyxTgAkL6a4gAJz
kubestronaut-sim runs each exam task on a host of its own - a kind (kubeadm)
cluster in rootless podman, or a QEMU/KVM Ubuntu VM for the CKS tasks that
need their own kernel (Falco, AppArmor) - and puts a browser desktop in front
of them, the way killer.sh and sailor.sh do.
- ksim, sim/: the engine (sessions, drills, study mode, grading, coverage,
audit), host and VM lifecycle, the desktop
- images/: exam host images (common, CKS variant with its tools, VM guest)
- cka/ (131 tasks), ckad/ (105), cks/ (110): task banks, curricula with
study notes, reference solutions and scripted solutions
Every domain of every track has at least 17 pool tasks. `./ksim audit` proves
a task three ways: it seeds cleanly on its own host, scores nothing before
anyone has worked on it, and reaches full marks when its scripted solution is
run on the host as `candidate`. All 346 tasks pass (CKA audited 2026-10-13,
CKAD and CKS 2026-10-12).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JZPd3GGWyxTgAkL6a4gAJz
