The pack had a premise (a few sentences), per-book summaries and a weekly timeline,
but no single spine saying what the main line is and which threads are side stories.
plot.md is the one prose file in DATA/: the author's telling, split into backbone
beats, an explicit side-story register, the verbatim transcription (spoken tellings
are expected - dictating into a note app is often the easiest way to produce a
baseline), deviations once the novel departs from it, and open threads.
The hierarchy is written into the file so it cannot drift: plot.md is INTENT, the
manuscript is REALISED, the wiki is DETAIL; on conflict the agent reports instead of
silently picking. Side stories are first-class - an unregistered thread is invisible
to the agent.
Wired in: SCHEMA (tree, naming table, new 5.4), templates/DATA/plot.md,
OpenNovelAgent load list + read-both-backbone-and-side-stories rule, /init asks for
a spoken telling and scaffolds the file, Importer maps fragments into it,
StoryReviewer measures chapters against it.
