Pinepaper

Use the pinepaper MCP server for a lesson view whose parts must stay linked or change together. Start with the selected subject guide and the block brief. Name the question the learner should answer from the scene. Keep the same objects, symbols, units, and example as the surrounding lesson.

Choose the visual job

• For a fixed relationship or boundary, read diagrams. Use Excalidraw when a quick static sketch is enough.
• For a plotted quantity, curve, or linked numerical view, read charts and quantities. Keep exact values in a table or reproducible calculation.
• For ordered states, physical motion, waves, or a model such as heat transfer, read motion and models.
• For learner controls or any finished file, read interaction and export. Choose the export before building features that the format cannot preserve.

One lesson may combine a diagram, graph, and motion around the same state. Each view must reveal a different part of the explanation. Do not make the learner infer which curve, arrow, or moving object corresponds to a number in the text.

Build through the MCP server

1. Write a short scene brief: claim, objects, source of quantities, units, what changes, and the expected output file. Decide what the learner will predict or compare.
2. Read the current tool schema. Use pinepaper_tool_guide for a tool family or pinepaper_query_capabilities for a specific missing capability. The server schema wins over examples in these files.
3. Call pinepaper_agent_start_job with the canvas preset and a description of the teaching claim. Plan positions and labels at the size the learner will see in the course viewer.
4. Use one pinepaper_agent_batch_execute for the base scene when its operations cover the job. Reuse its $0, $1, and later item references. Call a specialized tool, such as pinepaper_create_chart, pinepaper_equation_path, or pinepaper_physics, when the scene needs that capability. Do not approximate a chart or physical rule with decorative movement. Check the returned result of every operation.
5. Run pinepaper_validate_scene. Inspect the initial state and a meaningful changed state with a screenshot or playback. Check labels, scales, arrow meanings, clipping, and whether the graph and motion agree. Repair failed operations or unwired relations before finishing.
6. Call pinepaper_agent_end_job, inspect its final image, then export through pinepaper_agent_export or the specialized export tool required by the deliverable. Open the exported file. A correct editor scene is not proof that its export works.

Use named tools for ordinary production. Use pinepaper_execute_custom_code only for a bounded scene behavior the tool surface cannot express, and check the generated values against the lesson's model. A visually plausible model is still a model. Label measured data, sourced data, assumptions, and simulated outputs distinctly.

Hand off a checked artifact

Return the file, MIME type, title, purpose, source or model assumptions, and one learner question to the lesson coordinator. The coordinator alone updates the lesson and registers the artifact. Check the export in the course viewer before calling it ready. If the server is unavailable, use its diagnostic report when available, make one error-based correction, and report the remaining limitation. Never describe an unmade scene as finished.