livro

Book

Write a book. Not a report, not a digest, not the minutes of a debate.

The debate, if it exists, is optional input. This skill does not replace it and does not reopen it. If the user does not yet have a dispute between schools and wants one, stop and point to debate. Then, if you want the volume, come back here.

Do not be lazy with the input. Without a full reading of the named sources, there is no outline.

When to use

Request for a book, ebook, volume, "write a book about"
Extract a book from an already closed debate (Debate - …/)
Extract a book from notes, article (transcricao), thesis, or question
Four Views literary (one reading, then whoever responds to that reading)

When NOT to use

Mediate three schools (debate) — here debaters are not introduced
Preachable sermon (sermao)
Transcribe video (transcricao)
Digest, summary, or "single chapter that covers everything"

Principles

Throughline before prose. Without a throughline of ≤20 words and without a destination for the volume, no chapter is written.
Read the input for real. Debate: protocol, synthesis, verdict and all turns. Notes: every named file. Bare topic: research recorded in raw/pesquisa.md. Do not outline from memory or from the map alone.
Each unit has a job. Chapter: it begins, it moves, it lands. Paragraph: a local thesis, evidence, a close that prepares the next. Between units: therefore or but, never and then.
Whoever wrote it is not the only eye. A developmental editor and a source checker are isolated subagents (or, at minimum, a pass after the draft, against the text, not against the intention).
Do not invent. If the input is a debate, do not add a thesis the turn did not sustain. If the input is something else, do not invent a quotation, datum, or doctrine.
Destination ≠ school winner. A book of views sits on the questions that carry the rest and on what that does in the church, unless the user asks for a doctrinal judgment.

Prose detail: references/prosa.md. Structures: references/estruturas.md. Bench: references/bancada.md.

Intake (before creating a folder or drafting)

Run references/intake.md with a structured question. Without the answers, stop.

Field	Required?	Default
Theme (one sentence)	yes	—
Input	yes	bare topic (then research is the first job)
Reader	yes	smart believer, no diploma
Thread (≤20 words) + volume destination	yes	—
Structure	yes (confirm)	`quatro-pontos` if the input is debate; otherwise propose
Language	yes	Brazilian Portuguese
Destination folder	yes	`Livro - <tema>/` in the cwd
Authorization to write	yes	—

Do not mix the debate folder with the book folder. The debate stays where it is. The volume is another folder.

Artifacts

<destino>/
├── indice.md              # porta: pergunta, fio, leitor; aponta livro/_index.adoc
├── livro/                 # AsciiDoc: _index.adoc + um .adoc por capítulo
└── raw/
    ├── 00-brief.md        # fio, leitor, destino, insumo, estrutura
    ├── pesquisa.md        # o que foi lido, o que falta, fontes
    ├── outline.md         # emprego e destino de cada capítulo
    ├── reverse-outline.md
    ├── edicao.md          # desenvolvimento + linha
    └── curadoria.md

Copy the skeleton from templates/. Fill it in; do not leave placeholders. Destination = what the user asked for, otherwise cwd. No absolute machine paths.

Included chapters start at ==. Subsections at === (do not skip a level). [[id]] unique, starting with a letter. Glossary at the end, before the index. Title = Tema: subtítulo (the second line of the header becomes author — do not use it). Title page: the question and, if it fits, voices, in an [abstract]. No [dedication], no author page, no "how to read this file".

Cycle

intake → pesquisa (ler o insumo) → brief + outline
  → rascunho (um capítulo-piloto, depois o resto)
  → editor de desenvolvimento (reverse outline)
  → revisor de linha
  → checagem de fontes
  → copydesk (idioma, glossário, notas)
  → compile + curadoria

Do not skip research. Do not skip the reverse outline. Do not declare the volume ready just because the AsciiDoc compiles.

1. Research

Record raw/pesquisa.md (templates/pesquisa.md).

Debate: read 00-protocolo.md, sintese.md, veredito.md and each turnos/*.md. Note theses, concessions, dangers, load-bearing texts. The synthesis does not replace the turns.
Notes / articles: read each file that the intake named, in full.
Bare topic: research (Scripture in the thread; secondary sources with references). Record what was opened. A gap becomes a question, not a guess.

Without this record, the outline is a guess.

2. Brief and outline

raw/00-brief.md: thread, reader, destination ("after these pages the reader can…"), structure, what the volume is not .

raw/outline.md: for each chapter, job (what it exists to do) and destination (what the reader should be able to say at the end). The sequence of chapters must be therefore / but. A chapter that merely "also deals with" gets cut or changes job.

If the outline does not sit on the thread, redo the outline. Do not write on top of a crooked map.

3. Draft

Start with a pilot chapter (not the preface: a middle chapter). Reverse-outline that pilot (references/prosa.md). Only then write the rest.

One .adoc per chapter, long enough to sit and read. Language of the brief (default pt-BR). Unavoidable technical term: note at the first occurrence and entry in the glossary.

Paragraph and chapter contract: references/prosa.md. Do not stack theses. Do not circle.

4. Bench (mandatory)

Follow references/bancada.md. At minimum:

Developmental editor — subagent who did not wrote the chapter. Reverse-outline of the volume. RETRY if the chapter doesn't sit right, if the sequence is and then, if the thread disappears.
Source checker — every biblical claim with load: does the text say what the sentence asserts? não → RETRY of the chapter. Allusion without book-chapter-verse → complete.
Line editor — old→new, one thesis per paragraph, real connective (not just “moreover”).

Save the pass in raw/edicao.md and raw/reverse-outline.md.

5. Copydesk and production

Use Brazilian Portuguese when pt-BR is requested (avoid European Portuguese vocabulary such as “ficheiro”, “ecrã” and “de facto”).
Glossary + first-occurrence notes
asciidoctor livro/_index.adoc
[[id]] unique; xrefs resolve

6. Curation

raw/curadoria.md (templates/curadoria.md). Without that the volume didn't close. PASS / PASS with WARN / RETRY. Whoever wrote is not the only eye.

Scripture

Every biblical claim cites the source in the thread (Jn 12.31; Jgs 11.12). Naming the book or the episode is not enough. Do not invent a reference.

What does not go into the volume

Briefs, research, outline, reverse outline, editing, curation, pane names, Herdr, T01, steelman. That stays in raw/. The book's reader does not watch the process.

If the input is a debate: no “at this table,” “the essay just read,” “we were hearing him,” courtroom jargon. The order of the four viewpoints is pedagogy, not pact.

Anti-patterns

Compiling the book inside debate
Outline without having read the turns / the notes
Chapter that lists topics instead of going up a step
Paragraph without local thesis (block of loose sentences)
Sequence and then between sections
The same agent as sole editor of its own draft
Inventing thesis, quotation or datum
Digest, single markdown, or chapters too short to sit and read
Assembly instruction in the volume
[dedication] or author page in generated volume
Choosing a school's winner in a book of visions without the user having asked
Delivering without raw/curadoria.md and without compile

Checklist

Intake (topic, input, reader, thread, destination, structure, language, destination, authorization)
raw/pesquisa.md with sources read, not listed from memory
Brief + outline: use and destination per chapter
Pilot chapter reverse-outlined before the rest
Developmental editor isolated; reverse outline of the volume
Claims' sources checked
Glossary + first-occurrence notes
asciidoctor compiles; xrefs resolve
raw/curadoria.md PASS or PASS with WARN