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book-to-skill

Use when the user names one book, course, paper, or source document and asks to distill it into a reusable skill. Not for a folder of sources: use map-corpus.

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# Book to skill

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | The user names one book, course, paper, or comparable single source document and asks to distill it into a reusable skill. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only the chosen target skill directory (SKILL.md and optional references/); rollback is deleting that directory. No remote mutation. No source file is mutated or copied wholesale. |
| Side effect | Creates files under the chosen target directory only; never copies the source document into the skill. |
| Done | A SKILL.md that parses as YAML, carries an attribution line, passes four validation checks, and routes correctly on at least two positive and two negative probe prompts. |

## Inputs

- The named source document, accessible as a file the agent can open. A document the agent cannot open stops the run.