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
- Choose the writing mode before doing anything else.
- Infer the audience, scenario, purpose, and stance before drafting.
- Complete Stage 1 before writing the article body.
- Lock Stage 2 before expanding long-form prose.
- 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.
