Search BC curriculum (K-12) for standards, competencies, content items, and assessment resources using full-text search. Returns structured results with source metadata.

Args:

• query (string): Natural language search query (e.g., 'empathetic design thinking', 'coding and computational thinking')

• subject (string, optional): Filter by subject slug (e.g., 'adst', 'science')

• grade (integer, optional): Filter by grade level (0=K, 1-12)

• content_type (string, optional): Filter by content type ('big_idea', 'competency', 'content_item', 'elaboration', 'assessment', 'all')

• limit (integer, optional): Max results (default 10, max 50)

Returns: Matching curriculum elements with source type, course, subject, and grade metadata.

Get the complete BC curriculum for a specific course: Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies (grouped by domain), and Content/KDU items with elaborations. Returns the full three-column structure used by BC Ministry of Education.

Args:

• subject (string): Subject slug (e.g., 'adst', 'science')

• grade (integer): Grade level (0=K, 1-12)

• course (string, optional): Course slug (e.g., 'technology-explorations'). If omitted, returns all courses for that subject+grade.

Returns: Complete three-column curriculum structure per course, including elaborations.

Show how Big Ideas, Competencies, and Content progress across grade levels for a BC subject. Useful for understanding scaffolding, prerequisites, and learning trajectories. When a query is provided, filters to only matching items at each grade — showing a focused vertical thread rather than a full data dump.

Args:

• subject (string): Subject slug

• grade_from (integer): Starting grade (0=K, 1-12)

• grade_to (integer): Ending grade (0=K, 1-12)

• focus (string, optional): Which element to trace ('big_ideas', 'competencies', 'content', 'all'). Default 'all'.

• query (string, optional): Focus on a specific concept (e.g., 'evidence', 'multiplication'). Only matching items shown at each grade.

Returns: Grade-by-grade breakdown of curriculum elements showing progression, optionally filtered to a concept thread.

Find curricular competencies that appear across multiple subjects or courses. Useful for interdisciplinary curriculum design and identifying transferable skills.

Args:

• competency_text (string): A competency description to find connections for

• scope (string, optional): Where to search ('same_subject', 'cross_subject', 'all'). Default 'all'.

Returns: Related competencies from other courses/subjects with similarity ranking.

List all available courses in the BC curriculum database (K-12). Use this to discover what courses are available before querying specific curriculum data.

Args:

• subject (string, optional): Filter by subject slug

• grade (integer, optional): Filter by grade level (0=K, 1-12)

Returns: List of courses with subject, grade, name, and URL.

Find curriculum elements shared between two or more subjects at the same grade level. Identifies overlapping competencies, big ideas, and content across subjects. Essential for interdisciplinary planning.

Args:

• subjects (string[]): Two or more subject slugs to compare (e.g., ['science', 'adst'])

• grade (integer): Grade level (0=K, 1-12)

• focus (string, optional): Which element to compare ('big_ideas', 'competencies', 'content', 'all'). Default 'all'.

• query (string, optional): Narrow to a specific concept (e.g., 'evidence', 'design thinking')

• limit (integer, optional): Max connections to return (default 20, max 50)

Returns: Groups of curriculum items connected by shared language across subjects.

Show what changed in BC curriculum since a given date. Detects added, removed, and modified Big Ideas, Competencies, and Content items across crawl runs. Requires at least two crawls to have change data.

Args:

• since (string, optional): ISO date (e.g., '2026-01-15'). Default: last 30 days.

• subject (string, optional): Filter by subject slug

• grade (integer, optional): Filter by grade level

• change_type (string, optional): Filter by change type ('added', 'removed', 'modified', 'all'). Default 'all'.

• limit (integer, optional): Max entries to return (default 50, max 100)

Returns: Course-level summary of which courses changed, plus item-level detail of what specifically was added/removed/modified.

Show the crawl history and change timeline for a specific course. Includes each crawl snapshot (date, item counts, content hash) and a changelog of all detected modifications.

Args:

• subject (string): Subject slug (e.g., 'science')

• grade (integer): Grade level (0=K, 1-12)

• course (string, optional): Course slug (e.g., 'chemistry'). If omitted, shows history for all courses at subject+grade.

Returns: Timeline of crawl snapshots and detected changes per course.