Deep Writer

Deep Writer

Overview

Handle deep content writing in three common modes:

• source-driven: turn transcripts, notes, interviews, or messy drafts into strong articles
• draft-deepening: take an existing article or outline and make it deeper, clearer, and more complete
• topic-driven: write a deep piece from a topic, thesis, question, angle, or user idea

Default to pausing for user confirmation after analysis and structure unless the user explicitly asks for one-pass output.

Quick Start

1. Choose the writing mode before doing anything else.
2. Infer the audience, scenario, purpose, and stance before drafting.
3. Complete Stage 1 before writing the article body.
4. Lock Stage 2 before expanding long-form prose.
5. Run the final draft against the brief and the quality checklist.

If the user only wants a brief, outline, or structural diagnosis, stop at the relevant stage instead of forcing a full article.

Default Contract

Treat these as the default assumptions unless the user says otherwise:

• Required: either source material, or a topic / thesis / question / outline to write from
• Optional: supporting materials, target audience, publication scenario, stance, length, depth, tone, and style
• Default mode selection:
  • source-driven for transcripts, notes, interviews, speeches, and fragmented material
  • draft-deepening for rough drafts, partial articles, and existing outlines
  • topic-driven for requests that start from a theme, thesis, question, or desired article idea
• Default language: Chinese
• Default goal: formal publishable writing, not chat-style rewriting
• Default structure policy:
  • source-driven: preserve the source's macro frame and allow only micro-adjustments
  • draft-deepening: keep the strongest existing frame, then strengthen weak or thin sections
  • topic-driven: design the best-fit structure around the brief and thesis
• Default process: wait for confirmation after Stage 1 and Stage 2

If the user provides an already-approved outline, treat it as Stage 2 input and move to Stage 3 after a lightweight brief alignment.

Workflow

Stage 1: Analysis and Planning

Perform all of the following before drafting:

• identify the writing mode
• identify the likely audience, scenario, purpose, and stance
• build a brief using assets/brief-template.md
• do the relevant analysis for the mode:
  • source-driven: preprocess spoken-language noise, repetitions, and fragmentary clauses
  • draft-deepening: identify weak logic, thin sections, repeated claims, and missing support
  • topic-driven: clarify the central question, working thesis, key angles, and likely counterpoints
• extract viewpoint units, argument units, or section units and cluster overlapping ideas
• explain the main logic relations or argument chain

Output at least:

• the brief
• mode diagnosis
• preprocessing notes or argument notes
• viewpoint clusters or argument clusters
• logic chain or logic graph summary
• open questions, evidence gaps, or assumptions when they materially affect the piece
• updated todo status
• a confirmation prompt for the next stage

Read references/workflow.md when the material is fragmented, the thesis is still fuzzy, or the structure is not yet obvious.

Stage 2: Structure Design

Use the accepted Stage 1 output to design the writing frame.

Do all of the following:

• choose the right structure rule for the mode:
  • source-driven: preserve the source's core framework unless the user explicitly requests a rewrite
  • draft-deepening: keep the strongest existing structure, but rebuild weak branches when the draft cannot support the thesis
  • topic-driven: build the strongest structure around the thesis, reader, and scenario
• merge duplicate sections or overlapping arguments
• decide section order with the minimum necessary reordering in source-driven mode, or the clearest reader path in topic-driven mode
• assign each section a clear job, not just a title
• explain which parts were kept and which parts were adjusted

Use assets/outline-template.md when the user wants a reusable structure blueprint.

Output at least:

• the optimized structure
• the role of each section
• notes on preserved versus adjusted structure
• updated todo status
• a confirmation prompt for the next stage

Stage 3: Content Writing

Write the full article only after the structure is locked.

Do all of the following:

• follow the accepted structure instead of improvising a new one
• deepen claims with relevant background, mechanisms, examples, or implications
• remove transcript residue and spoken fillers when they exist
• keep the author's core meaning intact in source-driven mode
• keep the improved version aligned with the original draft's intended thesis in draft-deepening mode
• keep the thesis coherent and non-repetitive in topic-driven mode
• finish with a quality-check summary

Read references/quality-bar.md before finalizing the draft.

Output Format

Use the staged wrapper in assets/stage-output-template.md unless the user requested another format.

Default wrapper:

【阶段X完成】

---
【本阶段输出】
[stage output]

---
【待办事项状态】
- [completed] 第一阶段：分析与规划
- [pending] 第二阶段：结构设计
- [pending] 第三阶段：内容撰写

---
是否继续下一阶段？（输入“继续”进入下一阶段，或提出修改意见）

For the final stage, replace the confirmation prompt with a short quality-check summary.

Hard Rules

Do not:

• invent unsupported facts, data, case details, or quotations
• invent a new central thesis that is absent from the source material in source-driven mode
• radically rebuild the structure after Stage 2 is accepted
• keep obvious duplicate viewpoints in separate sections
• add generic filler that does not deepen the reader's understanding
• distort the source's stance in order to sound smoother or more authoritative
• pretend a topic-driven article is well evidenced if the user did not supply evidence and none is available

Always:

• choose the mode explicitly when the request is ambiguous
• make the logic chain visible
• distinguish source viewpoints from supplemental interpretation when that boundary matters
• keep the brief as the baseline for structure and drafting decisions
• state assumptions when the user did not provide audience, scenario, or stance

Resource Map

• references/workflow.md
  • Read for mode selection, the full stage checklist, clustering heuristics, topic-driven argument design, one-shot mode, and failure recovery.
• references/quality-bar.md
  • Read for the final review checklist, spoken-language cleanup rules, topic-writing quality rules, and over-expansion guardrails.
• assets/brief-template.md
  • Use when drafting the stage-one brief.
• assets/outline-template.md
  • Use when presenting or locking a reusable structure blueprint.
• assets/stage-output-template.md
  • Use when formatting staged outputs and todo-state updates.