User: "shouldn't mention the names of the mind-clones, should merge all
analyses and write like a best-seller author would, about what happened."
Voice rewrite (prompts/case-writer.md):
- Reference voices: Erik Larson, Sam Kean, John McPhee, Mark Bowden.
Plainspoken non-fiction, scene-driven, fascinated.
- One narrator. NEVER say "Sherlock Holmes argues" / "Sun-Tzu builds
the case" / "the team concluded". No internal-process names reach
the reader.
- Hook the first paragraph. Open in a scene with a date, place, and
person doing something specific. NOT "This case investigates..."
- Show, don't argue. Verbatim quotes stay source-language in
blockquotes; the narration around them is the narrator's voice.
- Every claim cites a chunk with [[doc-id/pNNN#cNNNN]].
- Forbidden ceremony: "In summary…", "Em suma…", "Ultimately…",
"It is worth noting…", detective names, probability tables,
hypothesis tournaments.
- The honest unknown is the subject, not a failure: "Whatever was in
the sky over Sandia in December 1948, the government never said."
- 4-6 numbered scenes, each title-cased specifically ("The Green
Sphere Over Highway 60" not "Background").
- Bilingual EN + PT-BR per CLAUDE.md §3 — sections alternate, no
mid-paragraph language mixing.
- Refusal: emit INSUFFICIENT_ARTEFACTS rather than padding when the
corpus is thin.
Raw-material pipeline (src/detectives/case_writer.ts):
- hybridSearch(topic, lang, top_k=18) gives the narrator real corpus
scenes with verbatim text + chunk_id citations + bbox metadata.
This is what was missing — v1 only saw pre-digested hypothesis
artefacts, which is how the academic prose got there.
- Dropped the hypotheses + contradictions queries from the loader.
They were skeptic-framing scaffolding that doesn't belong in the
raw material a best-seller narrator works from.
- New buildPrompt sections: "Primary-source scenes", "Curated
verbatim quotes", "Anomalies and surprises", "Named witnesses".
Anomalies (Taleb's outlier gaps) reframed: drop dominant_model
skeptic baseline, keep title + why_surprising as gold material.
- Refusal floor: < 4 scenes from hybridSearch → skip with reason.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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