| name | book-compose |
| description | Compile chapter drafts from a validated book workspace. Loads chapter contracts, obtains the chapter-retrieval bundle scaffold, drafts claim-first prose, records and checks writer assertions, applies Russellian style, runs release-gate validation, and produces release bundles (Markdown plus optional PDF/EPUB/LaTeX). All processing is local — no external APIs. Use when user says "draft chapter X", "compile chapter from contract", "build release bundle for chapter X", "render chapter to PDF", "build the book release", or "publish the book". Do NOT use for source ingestion (use book-knowledge) or prose-only rewrites (use russellian-style). Also builds book-level releases (manuscript Markdown, React+Tailwind HTML browser, Playwright PDF). Stage 4 includes a multi-persona editorial review (Gottlieb, Lay Reader, Domain Expert, Copyeditor, Enjoyment Reader) via the book-review sibling; chapter releases soft-gate on `persona_critical_count == 0`. |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"author":"charles-hoskinson","version":"0.1.0","category":"writing","workspace-aware":true,"invokes":"russellian-style, book-review, review-conductor"} |
book-compose
You compile validated knowledge into reader-facing chapter drafts and book releases. You read the workspace state read-only; you write only into chapters/ and book/releases/.
What it owns
- Chapter contracts, outlines, drafts under
chapters/.
- Release bundles under
chapters/releases/<chapter_id>-<version>/.
- Book-level releases under
book/releases/<version>/: manuscript Markdown, HTML, PDF, summary, manifest, bibliography, chapter-bundle copies.
- The release-gate (contract checks, style linters, humanizer, persona aggregation).
What it does NOT own
- Source ingestion, claim extraction, SHACL validation —
book-knowledge.
- Sentence-grain prose rewriting —
russellian-style.
- Persona prompt bodies and aggregation primitives —
book-review.
- Post-build mechanical/editorial gating —
book-qa.
- General document Q&A unconnected to a chapter contract.
Pipeline stages
- Contract — load
chapters/contracts/<chapter_id>.yaml; scaffold if missing.
- Pre-flight gate — call book-knowledge SHACL + competency queries in-process.
- Chapter bundle scaffold —
draft_chapter.py calls chapter_bundle.build_chapter_bundle_input, which obtains the book-knowledge chapter-retrieval bundle through sibling_skills; the flat query_chapter_evidence list is not the drafting scaffold.
- Outline — section plan from the bundle's load-bearing claims and caveats; user approval before drafting.
- Draft + assertion contract — build the deterministic bundle prompt (thesis cue, ordered claim+anchor support, rebuttal caveats, flags) → first pass through the injected generation seam → bind emitted sentences to scaffold claim/span pairs → record writer assertions → run the S2 faithfulness check and revise/downgrade before assembly → decompose resolved paragraphs into atomic facts → block novel-draft-claim paragraphs and route proposals through
qa/proposed-transitions.jsonl → russellian-style → humanizer → write back under chapters/drafts/<chapter_id>/.
- Linters —
chapter_contract_check.py enforces hedge / passive / listicle / rhythm / citation / ai_fingerprint_total == 0.
- Personas —
persona_review_pass.run_panel delegates to review-conductor.run_panel with the chapter-default panel (seven personas: Gottlieb, Lay Reader, Domain Expert, Copyeditor, Enjoyment Reader, AI-slop Detector, First-Time Visitor). One Task subagent per persona; the conductor's aggregate_panel produces panel-review.md and verdict.json. Soft-gate when verdict.verdict == "soft-gate-fail" (any critical from gating personas: Gottlieb, Domain Expert, Copyeditor, AI-slop Detector).
- Chapter bundle —
build_release_bundle.py writes draft.md + evidence-summary.md + claims-slice.jsonl + manifest.yaml + optional Pandoc renders.
- Book release (explicit only) —
book_preflight → build_book → React/Tailwind/shadcn injection via web-artifacts-builder-anthropic → Playwright PDF.
Components
chapter_contract.py, chapter_contract_check.py — load, validate, check. Bundle C: load_brief(workspace_root, contract_path) augments the validated contract with must_address — a list of {counter_claim_id, text, target_claim_id} derived from open counter-claims in claims/counter-claims.jsonl whose target_claim_id is in the contract's claims list. Chapter contracts may now declare an optional claims: [clm-YYYY-NNNNNN, ...] field.preflight.py, chapter_bundle.py, draft_chapter.py, writer_assertion.py, query_chapter_evidence.py, evidence_summary.py, toc.py.humanizer_pass.py, persona_review_pass.py, sibling_skills.py.build_release_bundle.py, diff_drafts.py.book_preflight.py, book_summary.py, render_book_html.py, print_pdf.py, build_book.py.
Outputs
chapters/drafts/<chapter_id>/{outline.md, draft-prompt.md, draft-scaffold.json, writer-assertions.jsonl, draft-atomic-facts.jsonl, blocked-paragraphs.json, draft.md, persona-review.md, style-report.md}.chapters/releases/<chapter_id>-<version>/{draft.md, evidence-summary.md, claims-slice.jsonl, manifest.yaml, draft.pdf|epub|tex}.book/releases/<version>/{manuscript.md, manuscript.html (React/Tailwind/shadcn), manuscript.pdf (Playwright), summary.json, book-manifest.yaml, claims-bibliography.jsonl, chapter-bundles/}.
Composes with
book-knowledge — pre-flight + chapter-retrieval bundle + legacy claim slice (in-process import).russellian-style — per-section invocation + linter calls.humanizer — per-section invocation + assess_draft.book-review — persona dispatch packets and aggregation.web-artifacts-builder-anthropic — book HTML browser.book-qa — receives novel-draft-claim proposals during drafting and runs after build_book, before shipping.
Usage
- "draft chapter ch-NN" — Stages 1–7, write
chapters/drafts/ch-NN/draft.md.
- "build release bundle for ch-NN v0.3" — Stage 8.
- "build the book release v1.0" — Stage 9 (explicit only; never auto-triggered).
Tests
Run .venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pytest tests/ from the skill directory. Coverage: contract loader, preflight wrapper, evidence query, chapter-contract-check linters, humanizer detector, bundle assembly, book-preflight, render_book_html determinism.
Lessons
See MEMORY.md for release-surfaced patterns: orphan [clm-…] tokens (strip thrice), "Claim ledger:" footnote noise, numeric-name footnote false-strips, CommonMark blank-line after </section>, Tailwind preflight flattening headings, contract-driven chapter titles, middle-batch context rot, prompt patterns that work or fail.
