Editing Research/Fiction Writing/AI Prose Strengthen (section)

=== Pipeline structure ===

From <code>README.md</code>, <code>WORKFLOW.md</code>, and <code>PIPELINE.md</code> references:

* '''Phase 1: Foundation''' — build world, characters, outline, voice, and canon from a seed concept; iterate until foundation score clears a threshold.
* '''Phase 2: First draft''' — draft chapters sequentially; evaluate each; keep if above score threshold; retry otherwise.
* '''Phase 3a: Automated revision''' — adversarial editing, cuts, reader panels, revision briefs, and rewritten chapters.
* '''Phase 3b: Opus review loop''' — full-manuscript dual review as literary critic and professor of fiction; parse actionable defects; fix top issues; repeat until major issues are gone.
* '''Phase 4: Export''' — typesetting, ePub, art, audiobook, landing page.

Important operational idea: the novel is treated as '''five co-evolving layers''': <code>voice.md</code> controls how prose is written; <code>world.md</code>, <code>characters.md</code>, <code>outline.md</code>, and <code>canon.md</code> control what is true; chapters are the final prose layer. Revisions propagate up and down the layer stack.