| name | storm-outline |
| description | Run STORM phase 2 — outline generation. This skill should be used when the user asks to "generate an outline for a storm article", "draft a wikipedia-style outline", or invokes /storm:outline. Produces a draft outline from parametric knowledge then refines it using the research information table. |
| user-invocable | true |
| argument-hint | <topic> [--output-dir PATH | --save] [--force] |
| allowed-tools | ["Read","Write","Edit","Glob","Grep","Bash(mktemp:*)","Bash(mkdir:*)","Bash(date:*)","Skill"] |
/storm:outline
Phase 2 of the STORM pipeline. Drafts an outline from the model's parametric knowledge, then refines it using the research conversations to reflect what was actually learned.
CRITICAL: Prerequisites
- Load
storm-engine via the Skill tool.
research/sources.json MUST exist (phase 1 complete). If absent, stop and instruct the user to run /storm:research first. Do not proceed with a parametric-only outline as the final artifact.
Completion Contract
This phase is complete iff outline.md exists and has ≥2 sections. If --force is not set and it exists, skip and exit early.
Procedure
- Resolve output dir.
- Read
research/conversations.jsonl and research/sources.json. Concatenate the conversation histories as the refinement input.
- Draft — generate
outline-draft.md from parametric knowledge alone. This is the model's prior structure for the topic. Use markdown ## Section headings.
- Refine — reorganize the draft using the conversation history: merge redundant sections, add sections for material the research surfaced that the draft missed, drop sections the research did not support. Write the result to
outline.md.
- Mark "Introduction", "Conclusion", "Summary" sections as placeholders if present — they are filled in the
polish phase, not here.
- Verify
outline.md has ≥2 sections. Update run-config.json: phases.outline = "completed", section count.
Output
Report: number of draft sections, number of refined sections, sections added/removed during refinement, and the path to outline.md.
