Dialogue Authoring

Overview

Authoring dialogue means creating DialogTopic (DIAL) and DialogResponses (INFO) records — by default in a new plugin (originals untouched), or, with the write tools' in-place lane, straight into an existing plugin — and doing the bookkeeping that makes them actually play. The load-bearing truth: a byte-valid INFO that passes xEdit but skips the Creation Kit's bookkeeping plays nothing in game — the exact silent-failure class houseCARL refuses (Q3). This skill drives houseCARL's tools through the five jobs and then validates the result; the dialogue policy lives here, the mechanism lives in the tools.