Recipes

Concrete how-to guides for the things you'll actually do — fill the manuscript map, build the vault, respond to reviewers, add a field overlay.

The rules pages explain the system. These recipes show how to use it on a real manuscript.

Recipe	What it covers	Time
Fill the Manuscript Map	The single most important setup step — thesis, venue, budgets, key sources	15 min
Build the Literature Vault	Ingest your sources into a grounded annotated bibliography	20 min
Respond to Reviewers	A point-by-point response letter that never claims an unmade change	30 min
Add a Field Overlay	Wire in discipline-specific reporting standards	10 min

New to the kit? Start with Fill the Manuscript Map — nothing else works well until the thesis is written down.

Vault Maintainer Agent

Heavy-lifting Literature Vault worker — ingest, cross-reference, health checks. Never fabricates a source.

Fill the Manuscript Map

The single most important setup step — give the agent a thesis, a venue, section budgets, and key sources so it stops drifting and overclaiming.