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Generate an AI helper prompt that coaches a student through homework without writing the submittable answer for them.
The Homework Help Guardrail Prompt builds an AI coach prompt that helps a student learn without producing anything they could submit. It encodes the help/harm line used in academic-integrity policy: explaining concepts and checking reasoning is allowed, while the submittable artefact — final prose, final numeric answers, or working code — is banned per assignment type, with rules that explicitly resist "just give me the answer" pressure. Parents and teachers choose from three strictness levels, from questions-only to verify-but-never-fix.
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Each assignment type bans its own submittable artefact — essay prose, final answers, working code, translations — not just "don't cheat".
The prompt tells the AI to restate its rules when asked to drop them, role-play them away, or make work "undetectable".
The AI must see the student's attempt or thinking before helping, mirroring how tutoring centres work.
The line most academic-integrity policies draw is work product: explaining a concept, checking reasoning or suggesting next steps is help, while producing text, answers or code the student submits is doing the work. This prompt encodes that line as explicit bans per assignment type.
The prompt instructs the AI to ignore any later message that tries to remove the rules and to restate them instead, which blocks casual pressure. No prompt can make an AI assistant perfectly rule-proof, so for high-stakes settings it should be combined with spot-checking, not relied on alone.
Strict allows only guiding questions and naming concepts, with no worked examples at all. Standard additionally allows fully working a clearly different, analogous example. Light also lets the AI say whether the student's finished answer is right or wrong and where — but never supply the corrected version.
No. The prompt is a practical enforcement aid; what counts as permitted help is defined by each institution's own policy, and many require disclosure of any AI assistance. The optional disclosure reminder exists precisely to point students back to their school's rules.