Essence Workbench

Use this skill only for essence creation. The job here is to turn raw material into a durable structured essence that can later feed other workflows, but this skill does not handle presentation shaping or rendering.

The broader pipeline is:

raw material -> structured essence -> presentation shape -> rendered delivery

This skill owns only the raw material -> structured essence step.

Core rules

• Essence is presentation-agnostic. It captures structure, meaning, evidence, and uncertainty without deciding how the material will later be delivered.
• Essence is destination-aware, not destination-driven. If the user already knows the likely final use, use that only to decide what must not be lost.
• Essence is a purposeful compression. Every essence keeps some structure sharp and lets other structure recede, so choose intentionally.
• One source can support more than one valid essence. If one essence would flatten important structure, create a small essence set instead of forcing a bad fit.
• The saved file is the editable source of truth, not a presentation artifact.

Workflow