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feat(novel): DATA/plot.md - the story baseline (main line + side-story register)
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.
2026-10-17 00:05:19 +01:00

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# Plot — {{SERIES_TITLE}}
> **Baseline = the author's telling.** This is the main line of the story, not the
> whole of it: side stories, subplots and new characters are expected — and they MUST
> be recorded in section 2, or the agent cannot see them.
>
> Hierarchy: this file is *intent*, the manuscript is *realised*, the wiki is *detail*.
> Where they disagree, report it and let the author rule — never silently pick one.
## 1. Backbone — what must happen
### Book 1 — {{BOOK_1_TITLE}}
1. {{BEAT}}
2. {{BEAT}}
### Book 2 — {{BOOK_2_TITLE}}
1. {{BEAT}}
## 2. Side stories (register)
| thread | whose story | spans | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| {{THREAD}} | {{CHARACTER}} | book 1 | planned |
Status values: `idea` → `planned` → `placed` (a chapter is assigned) → `written`.
## 3. Baseline telling (verbatim, dated)
### {{DATE}} — first telling
{{Paste the transcription here, exactly as it came. Do not tidy it.}}
## 4. Deviations — where the written novel left the baseline
| chapter | baseline said | novel does | ruling |
|---|---|---|---|
## 5. Open threads / unresolved questions
- {{QUESTION}}