book-workshop
Installation
SKILL.md
The Book Workshop
One bundle, many benches. Each bench is an independent skill — usable alone — and this file is the floor plan: which bench does what, in what order, and which numbers flow between them. The distributist point of the shop: the whole craft lives on Charlie's own bench, no Vellum, no InDesign, rebuilds are deterministic scripts at zero tokens.
The benches
| Stage | Bench (skill) | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 0. Market | niche-scout |
Is the niche worth printing into? (optional) |
| 1. Intake | markitright (PDF) / textutil (.doc/.docx) / WebFetch (URL) |
Render ANY source into a clean markdown master first. Markdown is the WORDS layer; nothing goes to CSS that isn't markdown yet. |
| 2. Draft | book-writer + book-quality-loop |
Only for books being written, not reprinted |
| 3. Finish | manuscript-finisher |
Proofread/copyedit pass before layout — content locks here |
| 4. Interior | design-to-book |
Trim, margins, typography, CSS→Paged.js render → out/book.pdf |
| 5. Cover | cover-concept (brief) → kdp-cover-wrap (front/spine/back wrap) |
Needs FINAL interior page count first — see dependency map |
| 6. Listing | KDP Toolkit skills (CIA/publishing/KDP Toolkit/) |
Title/subtitle/keywords/categories, back-cover copy |
| — Facsimile lane | facsimile-edition |
Scan→faithful-reproduction jobs bypass benches 1–4 |