Three new pieces lock the gen pipeline:
1. seeds/authors/orson-black.md — Orson Black's soul. ~2k words,
strict-headings format per cobb's decision. Voice / Worldview /
Specifics / Pet peeves / Sense of humor / Biography (fully
fictional — synthetic literary persona; coal town Durham 1948,
father died of pneumoconiosis at 14, two winters as welder's
apprentice on the Tyne, etc) / Anchor authors (Orwell, McCarthy,
DeLillo, Judt, Modiano) / Do / Don't.
2. skald-core::forge — author-aware. Forge::generate, ::cleanup,
and ::audit now take Option<&AuthorWithRevision>. When Some:
scaffold + soul composed and passed as SystemMode::Replace —
the model BECOMES the author. When None: house neutral scaffold,
Append mode, claude defaults stay. audit() always neutral,
regardless of author. Real prompt templates ship for gen +
cleanup (the prose-craft IP we were deferring) — scaffold has
{{display_name}}, {{pass_directive}}, {{soul}} substitutions,
plus separate gen/cleanup directive blocks.
3. skald continue --story <uuid> [--author SLUG] [--direction
STR] [--target-words N] [--recent N] [--skip-audit] — the
pipeline CLI:
load story → resolve author (--flag wins, else story.author_id,
else None) → pin author/revision onto story → assemble
ContinuationContext from parent chain → run gen pass →
parse heading + insert chapter + passages → run cleanup pass
on the draft → replace chapter body + passages → run audit
pass (parent prose vs new chapter vs bible) → parse JSON
findings into audit_findings table → status flow
seed→generating→cleaning→auditing→complete.
Plus skald authors seed --slug --display-name --tagline --file
--note for loading souls from disk into the DB.
End-to-end testable: seed Orson Black, create a sequel stub via
web or SQL, fire 'skald continue' against it. Coast-Down chapter 8
in Orson's voice is the smoke test.
Kayos
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