Cached summaries for a project (chapter-sorted by ContextEngine).

* Return all available project templates for the dashboard

* Core message handler — processes input from any channel. * Optional extraContext is appended to the system prompt (used by goal engine).

Directory holding the out-of-repo key file.

* List available voice presets (author-friendly).

A stub ContradictionDetector — returns crafted contradictions.

True if the character's name or any alias appears in the lowercased haystack.

Compute next match starting from `from` (inclusive of next minute).

* Normalize a resolved absolute path for prefix comparison. * * Filesystems on Windows (and macOS by default) are case-insensitive, and * inputs ma

Record an observation. Cheap; just appends to the ring buffer.

Register a callback fired on project completion.

* Parse a .docx buffer and return a structured diff.

Pull an answer + citation list out of a Perplexity / OpenAI-compatible response.

* Detect pre-authorization bypass attempts in payloads / descriptions. * These phrases are a red flag that something in observed content is * tr

* Build the translation plan. Pure function — estimates cost + ROI * rankings. Does not execute any translation.

* Ask the AI to decompose a task into steps dynamically. * This is the core "tell the agent what you want and it figures out the steps" feature.

* Recommend 1-3 structures for a given project. * * Pure heuristic — no AI calls. Scores each structure by genre fit and * surfaces explicit

Render one character sheet as a single markdown line.

* Best-effort "active chapter number" for CORE assembly. Prefers the current * step's own chapterNumber; else the max chapterNumber across the proj

* Resolve a provider for a free-tier task type, THROWING if the router hands * back a non-free provider (fail closed on any cost-rule breach). Only

* Resolve a voice input to a provider-appropriate voice ID. * Accepts: preset name ('narrator_deep'), voice ID, or null (use default). * For Ele

Spawn a child process and capture stdout/stderr. Returns on exit or timeout.

Keep only string -> non-empty-string entries.

Persist settings to disk (atomic write via temp file + rename).

Debounced disk write — coalesces rapid `record()` calls into one write.

Send a voice message (MP3 file) to a Telegram chat

Set command handlers for direct gateway interaction

Try to JSON.parse with a couple of common-fix passes. Returns undefined on failure.

JSON.parse with a couple of common-fix passes. undefined on failure.

* Top-level universal disclaimer — shown once on any dashboard page that * initiates external actions. Authors should be reminded that AuthorClaw

Write the human-readable SKILLS.txt reference file in workspace/.

Accept a draft → moves SKILL.md from _drafts/ to ops/ and reloads skills.

* Register an SSE client. Returns cleanup function.

* Run the specialist revision passes and aggregate their findings into one * prioritized report. Each pass is isolated: a throwing pass never abort

* Build an SVG cover file layered over the given PNG background. * The PNG is embedded as base64 so the resulting .svg is self-contained.

* Apply a set of accept/reject decisions to produce clean Markdown. * Changes marked "accepted" are applied; "rejected" revert to the original.

* Soft total-size guard for the assembled system prompt. If `prompt` is under * SYSTEM_PROMPT_SOFT_CAP, it is returned UNCHANGED (byte-identical).

* User approval — ONLY called from a dashboard endpoint authenticated * against the local server (AuthorClaw binds to 127.0.0.1). Can't be * tri

Human-readable label for a memory source type.

Events at risk: upcoming with <7 days and critical/high priority.

* Pass 4 (NEW): Attribute dialogue to speakers and assign per-character * voices for multi-voice audiobook narration. AutoNovel-inspired but * s

* Fully autonomous mode: loop over ALL active steps of a project, executing * each through the message pipeline. Long-running — can run for many mi

* Backfill project_id / persona_id on manuscript + project_step rows (Tiered * Memory Chunk C, sleep-job step 7). * * reindexAll() inserts ma

P1 — the active chapter's ending state / summary, capped at p1 budget.

* Build the archival FTS query: the step prompt plus the names of characters * active in (or near) the current chapter, so the search surfaces prio

* Phase-aware context for book-production projects. * * For polish steps: includes the FULL preceding write step (the chapter to * revise) at