name: book-init description: "Phase 0: Onboarding. Initialize new book project — define genre, audience, language, scope, generate PRD.md and STYLE.md."
Phase 0: Onboarding
Max 3 questions per round, max 3 rounds.
R1 — Genre (fiction/non-fiction/technical) · Audience (1-2 personas) · Language R2 — Scale (5-15 chapters, word count) · Timeline · Existing materials R3 — Voice (conversational/academic/narrative) · Tone · Special requirements
Source scan if materials confirmed: find vault + alcove search_project_docs/search_vault in parallel.
Outputs:
PRD.md— genre, language, reader, scale, timeline, source map, success criteriaSTYLE.md— voice/tone, language rules, formatting, prohibited patternsdrafts/edits/publish/sources/directories
Gate: PRD.md + STYLE.md exist, source map has 3+ items.
Poetry note: For poetry/poetry-essay genres, STYLE.md line targets per poem should be 20-80 lines (not the default 10-30). Word/character targets in PRD.md should reflect total poem count × average length rather than a flat word count.
Post-Completion
Update the project dashboard status:
node {PLUGIN_ROOT}/velith.mjs scan [project-dir] --plugin-root={PLUGIN_ROOT}