Episteme AI releases self-study roadmap planning tool

SreeNaresh1 released the Episteme AI self-study roadmap planning tool, which turns career goals into a weekly plan ordered by prerequisites and limited to a set number of hours per week, with courses selected only from free public courses. The system uses Cheerio to detect paywalls and 404 dead links at the DOM level; when a broken link is found, it automatically matches a replacement from the free course index and records the reason. The tool uses Gemini 2.0 Flash to generate plans and validate the weekly hour cap and the free URL whitelist, falling back to a deterministic 52-week plan on failure. Course selection and calendar operations require human approval, and a unique idempotency key in SQLite prevents duplicate dispatch. The demo site is accessible without login; LLM generation is enabled only when GEMINI_API_KEY is configured, otherwise a deterministic 52-week course builder is used. The code is open source under the MIT license.

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