Weave a Chapter
Weave the banked sessions into one memoir chapter in the teller's voice: every scene traceable to something actually said, gaps marked for a future session instead of invented — the ritual that turns interviews into a book. Locks the chapter's arc and the no-invention rules FIRST, then drafts from session material only, with a faithfulness pass that loops until every detail traces. Use for drafting a memoir chapter, weaving sessions into a story, and 'turn the interviews into a chapter'.
Steps
Entry step: scope. Each step names the specialist role it wants; the full working prompt is expandable.
- Scope the chaptereditorentry
chapter arc from the sessions, no-invention rules, target file
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Choose the chapter before writing a line. Step 1: read every session file under sessions/ (and sessions.json for the index) — what themes recur, which sessions overlap, and where the material is thick enough to hold a chapter. Step 2: pick the chapter's arc with the owner — the span of time or the thread of feeling it covers, and where it opens and closes. Step 3: lock the weaving rules: no invented events — every scene traces to something actually said; the teller's phrasings survive the prose; where sessions contradict each other, the contradiction is surfaced, not silently resolved; where the record has a hole, the gap is marked inline for a future session, never papered over. Step 4: write the acceptance-criteria checklist from those rules, name the chapter file under chapters/ (the path the owner asks for, or chapters/<slug>.md named for the arc), and call write_task_note with the arc + checklist. Write notes/scope.md.
- Draft the chapterwriter
the woven chapter under chapters/, session material only
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Weave the chapter from session material only. Step 1: gather every passage across the sessions that belongs to the locked arc. Step 2: write the chapter in the teller's voice — their rhythms, their words for things — with the narrative connective tissue kept thin and honest. Step 3: where the teller told it two ways, keep both tellings visible ('she remembered it as...; in another telling...'). Step 4: where the arc needs something the sessions never said, mark the gap inline — [gap: ask about ...] — and move on. Step 5: save the chapter under chapters/ at the path locked in scope, make it substantial (a real chapter, not an outline), and call write_task_note with the word count and the gap count. - Evaluatereviewer
Grade the deliverable against every acceptance criterion. All pass → finish; any fail → loop back and fix the gap.
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Open the chapter under chapters/ beside every session file it draws on, and verify every criterion from notes/scope.md: pick five concrete events or details in the chapter and find each one in a session file — any detail with no source is invented and fails the whole pass; the teller's phrasings survive (spot-check three passages); contradictions between sessions are surfaced in the text, not resolved silently; gaps are marked inline, not smoothed over. Write PASS/FAIL per criterion; on any failure, name the invented detail or missed criterion and loop back to draft. Then route — this is the whole point of the loop: - **Every criterion PASSES →** call `advance_task_step({ ref, stepId: "evaluate", next: "finish" })`. - **Any criterion FAILS →** write the specific gaps to notes, then call `advance_task_step({ ref, stepId: "evaluate", next: "draft" })` to loop back. The builder fixes exactly those gaps. Never route to `finish` while any criterion is unmet. If you advance without a target, the loop sends you back by design. After ~3 unproductive loops, stop and report DONE_WITH_CONCERNS so the user can step in. - Finishdeveloper
All acceptance criteria met. Stamp a short summary and report DONE.
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Every acceptance criterion passed. Write a one-paragraph DONE summary to task notes via `write_task_note`: what was built, the deliverable path(s), and a one-line confirmation that each criterion is met. Then report DONE.
Triggers
Phrases that suggest this craftbook to a crew.
- weave the sessions into a chapter
- draft a memoir chapter
- turn the interviews into a chapter
- write the next chapter
- chapter from the sessions
Source
View this craftbook on GitHub · MIT license