Soundingboard v1.1.0

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Soundingboard v1.1.0 — The Intelligent Novel Production Studio

Soundingboard v1.1.0 marks the transition from early experimental CLI scripts into a fully unified, agent-native novel engineering studio. This release unifies the product brand, consolidates all tooling under the canonical soundingboard CLI, introduces a complete Discovery Ingestion pipeline for discovery/pantser writers, expands the narrative reference library to 114 OKF craft cards, and deploys 17 deterministic context-packing creative playbooks.

🌟 What's New in v1.1.0

1. Canonical Rebranding & CLI Unification

Canonical Entry Point: Unified the entire CLI and codebase under scripts/soundingboard.js (soundingboard binary).
Backward-Compatibility Shims: Retained lightweight ESM shims for scripts/saga.js and scripts/sb.js (saga and sb binaries) so existing scripts, aliases, and user muscle memory remain intact.

Full Command Reconciliation: Completely reconciled the CLI command references across AGENTS.md and docs/architecture.md against all 21 implemented commands/subcommands (including craft search, timeline, threads, gate, manuscript-report, ingest, and export).

Automated Invocation CI Test: Added Test 18 to the test suite, which recursively scans all markdown files across the repository to verify that 100% of referenced script paths exist, preventing documentation drift.

2. Discovery Ingestion Pipeline & Raw Inputs Vault

Discovery Writer Support (soundingboard ingest <file|dir>): Authors writing outside the IDE (Obsidian, Word, Scrivener) can now drop raw scenes or entire draft folders into the project.

Immutable Vault Archiving: Raw files are automatically snapshotted into inputs/drafts/ with SHA-256 provenance hashes and frontmatter metadata.

Automated Fact Harvesting: Ingestion parses characters and proper nouns directly into canon.md tagged [unverified chN] without interrupting drafting flow.

Discovery Ingest Debrief ("The Writer's Mirror"): Instantiates a structured debriefing playbook analyzing value shifts, polarity, open promises/IOUs, character presence, and 3 creative runways forward.

3. The 17 Agent-Native Creative Playbooks

Legacy terminal wizards have been replaced with token-disciplined mechanical context packers (soundingboard pack ), allowing AI agents to execute structured creative playbooks natively in chat without entering modal readline loops:

Tactical & Scene Craft:

• Getting Unstuck (pack unstuck) — Diagnoses narrative blockages and delivers 3 creative forks with opening prose.
• Dialogue Heat & Escalation (pack heat) — Injects subtext, status play, and avoidance strategies.
• Sensory Bloom (pack bloom) — Applies targeted sensory budgets to thin locations.
• Scene Staging & Hooks (pack scene) — 5 Commandments beat structuring and ending hook variations.
• Causal Plot Calculus (pack causality) — Rewrites episodic "and then" chains into "Therefore / But" causal momentum.

Character & Voice Architecture:

• Character Voice Interview (pack interview) — In-character roleplay generating stylistic voice profiles.
• Character Drop-Testing / WWXDU (pack wwxdu) — High-pressure scenario testing for non-obvious choices.
• Character DNA Mashup (pack dna) — 3-donor character deconstruction ("X meets Y").

Worldbuilding & Theme:

• Lore Brainstorming (pack brainstorm) — Secret/subtext development with active scene demonstration prompts.
• Thematic Resonance Weaver (pack theme) — Weaves recurring motifs without narrator moralizing.

Complete Subplot Engineering Suite:

• Subplot Genesis & Architecture (pack subplot-genesis) — Designs contrasting, thematic counter-weight, and foil threads.
• Subplot Braiding & Thread Freshening (pack subplot-braid) — Prevents thread dormancy across chapters.
• Subplot Collision & Crisis Reversal (pack subplot-collision) — Crashes secondary arcs into the main plot at turning points.
• Subplot Resolution & Loose-End Audit (pack subplot-resolution) — Audits resolution clumping and tracks the Loose-End Ledger.

Editorial Simulation & Stress Testing:

• Blind Reader Simulator (pack blind-reader) — Tests drafts cold with an Emotional EKG graph, Trust Thermometer, and Prediction Ledger.
• Plot Interrogator & Devil's Advocate (pack plot-interrogator) — Cross-examines plot holes, contrivances, and "Why don't they just..." alternatives.
• Discovery Ingest Debrief (pack debrief) — Deep debrief for newly imported raw scenes.

4. Now 114 OKF Modular Craft Guides & Universal Rosetta Stone

• 114 Codified Craft Cards: Complete Open Knowledge Format (OKF) cards in _config/okf_craft/ synthesizing narrative frameworks from Shawn Coyne (Story Grid), John Truby (Anatomy of Story), Brandon Sanderson, K.M. Weiland, and Dwight Swain.
• Universal Narrative Lexicon Rosetta Stone: Automatically translates between author dialects (Save the Cat!, Hero's Journey, Story Grid, etc.) and underlying mechanics.

5. Symptom-Based Craft Search: soundingboard craft search supports natural author symptoms (e.g. "sagging middle") with automatic synonym expansion.

6. Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Revision Playbooks & Machine Gates

Structured Revision Playbooks: When audits flag issues (such as explained themes or flat cadence), the agent generates a collaborative playbook presenting 2–3 creative choices (e.g., The Cut, Dramatize, Subtext Dialogue) rather than making autonomous rewrites.

Strict Gate Enforcement (soundingboard gate ): Compilation strictly rejects any chapter lacking 4/4 verified clearance attestations (mechanical audit, canon verification, rubric score, and trope-ledger delivery).

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