---
name: colette-bridge
description: |
  Bridges ArcheFlow with the Colette writing platform. Auto-detects colette.yaml in the project
  root, resolves voice profiles, personas, and character sheets, then builds a summarized context
  bundle that gets injected into every agent prompt via artifact routing. Eliminates manual
  copy-pasting of writing context into agent prompts.
  <example>Automatically loaded when colette.yaml is detected at run.start</example>
  <example>User: "archeflow:run" in a project with colette.yaml</example>
---

# Colette Bridge — Writing Context Auto-Loader

When ArcheFlow detects `colette.yaml` in the project root, this skill automatically loads voice profiles, personas, character sheets, and project rules into a context bundle that every agent receives (filtered by archetype role).

## Prerequisites

- `archeflow:domains` — Colette Bridge sets domain to `writing` automatically
- `archeflow:artifact-routing` — bundle is injected via the artifact routing system
- `archeflow:run` — bridge hooks into run initialization

## Trigger

At `run.start`, after domain detection but before the Plan phase:

1. Check if `colette.yaml` exists in the project root
2. If found, activate Colette Bridge
3. If not found, skip silently (no error, no warning)

When the bridge activates, it emits a decision event:

```bash
./lib/archeflow-event.sh "$RUN_ID" decision init "" \
  '{"what":"colette_bridge","chosen":"activated","signal":"colette.yaml found","files_resolved":<count>}'
```

---

## File Resolution

Colette projects reference files by ID (e.g., `vp-giesing-gschichten-v1`) but the actual YAML files may live in different locations. The bridge resolves files using this search order:

### Search Priority (highest first)

| Priority | Location | Example |
|----------|----------|---------|
| 1 | Explicit path in `colette.yaml` | `voice.profile: ../writing.colette/profiles/custom.yaml` |
| 2 | Project root subdirectories | `./profiles/vp-giesing-gschichten-v1.yaml` |
| 3 | Parent directory + `writing.colette/` | `../writing.colette/profiles/vp-giesing-gschichten-v1.yaml` |

### What Gets Resolved

| Source | colette.yaml field | Search paths |
|--------|-------------------|-------------|
| Voice profile | `voice.profile` | `profiles/<id>.yaml`, `../writing.colette/profiles/<id>.yaml` |
| Persona | `writing.persona` or inferred from profile | `personas/<id>.yaml`, `../writing.colette/personas/<id>.yaml` |
| Characters | Auto-discovered | `characters/*.yaml` |
| Series config | `series` section (if present) | `colette.yaml` itself, `../writing.colette/series/<name>.yaml` |
| Project rules | Always | `CLAUDE.md` in project root |

### Resolution Procedure

```
for each reference in colette.yaml:
  1. If the field contains a path (has / or .yaml) → use as-is, verify exists
  2. If the field contains an ID (e.g., "vp-giesing-gschichten-v1"):
     a. Check ./profiles/<id>.yaml (or ./personas/<id>.yaml)
     b. Check ../writing.colette/profiles/<id>.yaml (or ../writing.colette/personas/<id>.yaml)
     c. If not found → warn in event log, skip this file
  3. For characters/ → glob characters/*.yaml in project root
  4. For CLAUDE.md → check project root
```

If a referenced file cannot be found at any location, emit a warning event but do not abort:

```bash
./lib/archeflow-event.sh "$RUN_ID" decision init "" \
  '{"what":"colette_bridge_warning","chosen":"skip","file":"vp-giesing-gschichten-v1","reason":"not found in any search path"}'
```

---

## Context Bundle

The bridge generates `.archeflow/context/colette-bundle.md` — a summarized, token-efficient Markdown file that agents receive as part of their prompt context.

### Bundle Structure

```markdown
# Writing Context (auto-loaded from Colette)

## Voice Profile: <id>
**Tone:** <tone_summary from meta>
**Perspective:** <perspektive>
**Density:** <dichte>
**Attitude:** <haltung>
**Sharpness:** <schaerfe>
**Humor:** <humor>
**Tempo:** <tempo>
**Reader relationship:** <leser_beziehung>

### Forbidden
- <each item from verboten>

### Allowed
- <each item from erlaubt>

### Style models
- <each item from vorbilder, name only + one-word tag>

## Persona: <id>
**Name:** <name>
**Bio:** <bio, max 2 sentences>
**Genres:** <genres, comma-separated>

### Rules
- <each item from rules>

## Characters
### <name> (<role>)
- **Age:** <age>
- **Key traits:** <first 3 personality items>
- **Speech:** <speech_pattern, first sentence only>
- **Relationships:** <key relationships, one line each>

[Repeated for each character in characters/*.yaml]

## Series Context
[Only if series config found in colette.yaml]
- **Shared concepts:** <list>
- **Glossary:** <key terms>
- **Forbidden cross-story:** <items>

## Project Rules (from CLAUDE.md)
[Key writing rules extracted from CLAUDE.md, summarized as bullet points]
- <rule 1>
- <rule 2>
- ...
```

### Summarization Rules

The bundle is **summarized**, not a raw YAML dump. This reduces token cost:

- Voice profile dimensions: key name + value (no YAML formatting, no `dimensionen:` wrapper)
- Verboten/erlaubt: bullet list, strip explanation after the dash if over 15 words
- Characters: name, role, age, top 3 traits, first sentence of speech pattern, relationships
- Persona bio: max 2 sentences
- CLAUDE.md: extract only rules/style sections, skip meta/git/cost config
- Target: bundle should be under 1500 tokens for a typical project

---

## Caching

The bundle is regenerated only when source files have changed. Cache validation uses file modification times.

### Cache Check Procedure

```
bundle_path = .archeflow/context/colette-bundle.md

if bundle_path does not exist → generate
if bundle_path exists:
  bundle_mtime = mtime of bundle_path
  for each resolved source file:
    if source_mtime > bundle_mtime → regenerate, break
  if no source file is newer → use cached bundle
```

When the cache is valid, emit:

```bash
./lib/archeflow-event.sh "$RUN_ID" decision init "" \
  '{"what":"colette_bundle_cache","chosen":"reuse","reason":"all sources older than bundle"}'
```

When regenerating:

```bash
./lib/archeflow-event.sh "$RUN_ID" decision init "" \
  '{"what":"colette_bundle_cache","chosen":"regenerate","reason":"<file> modified since last bundle"}'
```

---

## Per-Agent Attention Filters

Not every agent needs the full bundle. The bridge defines attention filters that control which sections each archetype receives. This extends the base attention filters from `archeflow:attention-filters`.

| Archetype | Bundle sections injected | Rationale |
|-----------|------------------------|-----------|
| **Explorer** | Full bundle | Needs all context for research — setting, characters, voice, rules |
| **Creator** | Voice dimensions + persona rules + characters | Designs outline — needs to know who speaks how, who exists, what's allowed |
| **Maker** | Full bundle | Writes prose — needs voice for style, characters for dialogue, rules for guardrails |
| **Guardian** | Characters + series shared_concepts | Checks consistency — needs character facts and cross-story constraints |
| **Sage** | Voice profile (full, including verboten/erlaubt) + persona rules | Checks voice drift — needs the complete voice spec and persona constraints |
| **Trickster** | Characters + series glossary | Tests continuity — needs character facts and terminology for contradiction checks |

### Filter Implementation

When injecting the bundle into an agent prompt, extract only the relevant sections:

```
# For Guardian:
Extract: "## Characters" section (all characters)
Extract: "## Series Context" section (if present)
Skip: everything else

# For Sage:
Extract: "## Voice Profile" section (full, with forbidden/allowed)
Extract: "## Persona" section (rules subsection)
Skip: characters, series, project rules

# For Explorer and Maker:
Inject: full bundle as-is
```

The filtering happens at prompt assembly time, not at bundle generation time. One bundle, multiple filtered views.

### Custom Archetypes

Custom archetypes (e.g., `story-explorer`, `story-sage`) inherit the filter of their closest base archetype:

| Custom archetype | Inherits filter from | Override |
|-----------------|---------------------|----------|
| `story-explorer` | Explorer | Full bundle |
| `story-sage` | Sage | Full voice profile + persona rules |
| `story-guardian` | Guardian | Characters + series |

If a custom archetype needs a different filter, define it in the archetype's markdown frontmatter:

```yaml
---
name: story-sage
colette_filter: [voice_profile, persona, characters]
---
```

The `colette_filter` field accepts section keys: `voice_profile`, `persona`, `characters`, `series`, `project_rules`, `full`.

---

## Integration with Run Skill

The Colette Bridge hooks into `archeflow:run` initialization. The sequence is:

```
run.start
  ├── Domain detection (from archeflow:domains)
  │     └── colette.yaml found → domain = writing
  ├── Colette Bridge activation
  │     ├── Resolve files (voice profile, persona, characters, CLAUDE.md)
  │     ├── Check bundle cache
  │     ├── Generate/refresh bundle → .archeflow/context/colette-bundle.md
  │     └── Register bundle path in artifact routing
  └── Continue to Plan phase
```

### Artifact Routing Registration

The bundle path is registered so that every phase's context injection includes the (filtered) bundle:

```
artifact_routing.register_context(
  path = ".archeflow/context/colette-bundle.md",
  inject_at = "all_phases",
  filter_by = "archetype"  # Apply per-agent attention filters
)
```

In practice, this means the run skill prepends the filtered bundle content to each agent's prompt, after the standard task description but before phase-specific artifacts.

### Prompt Injection Order

```
1. Archetype definition (from SKILL.md or custom archetype .md)
2. Domain-specific review focus (from archeflow:domains)
3. Colette bundle (filtered for this archetype)
4. Task description
5. Phase-specific artifacts (Explorer output, Creator proposal, etc.)
6. Cycle feedback (if cycle 2+)
```

---

## Example: Giesing Gschichten

Given this `colette.yaml`:

```yaml
project:
  name: "Giesing Gschichten"
  author: "C. Nennemann"
  language: de
  type: fiction

voice:
  profile: vp-giesing-gschichten-v1

writing:
  target_words: 6000
  style: "Ich-Erzaehler, lakonisch, Eberhofer-meets-Grossstadt"
```

The bridge:

1. Reads `voice.profile: vp-giesing-gschichten-v1`
2. Searches for `./profiles/vp-giesing-gschichten-v1.yaml` — not found
3. Searches for `../writing.colette/profiles/vp-giesing-gschichten-v1.yaml` — found
4. Infers persona from voice profile ID pattern or searches `personas/` — finds `giesinger.yaml` at `../writing.colette/personas/giesinger.yaml`
5. Globs `characters/*.yaml` — finds `alex.yaml` (and others if present)
6. Reads `CLAUDE.md` for writing rules
7. Generates bundle:

```markdown
# Writing Context (auto-loaded from Colette)

## Voice Profile: vp-giesing-gschichten-v1
**Tone:** Lakonisch, warmherzig-genervt, trockener Humor
**Perspective:** Ich-Erzaehler (Alex), nah dran, subjektiv
**Density:** Alltagsdetails die Atmosphaere schaffen
**Attitude:** Lakonisch, leicht genervt, aber mit Herz
**Sharpness:** Beobachtungsscharf, sprachlich reduziert
**Humor:** Trocken, Understatement, absurde Situationen
**Tempo:** Gemaechlich mit Spannungsspitzen, Slow Burn
**Reader relationship:** Kumpel am Stammtisch

### Forbidden
- Hochdeutsch-Sterilitaet
- Krimi-Klischees (CSI, Profiler, Tatort)
- Lederhosen-Kitsch und Oktoberfest-Folklore
- Dialekt-Overkill
- Moralisieren oder Erklaeren
- Kuenstliche Spannungsaufbauten
- Adverb-Orgien und Adjektiv-Ketten
- Infodumps

### Allowed
- Bairische Einsprengsel in Hochdeutsch-Prosa
- Essen und Trinken als Leitmotiv
- Kiffer-Humor und Slow-Motion-Beobachtungen
- Gentrification-Satire
- Echte Giesinger Orte und Strassen
- Skurrile Nachbarn
- Kriminalplot aus dem Alltag
- Kurze, lakonische Dialoge

### Style models
- Rita Falk (Erzaehlton), Wolf Haas (lakonisch), Helmut Dietl (Muenchner Milieu), Friedrich Ani (duester), Bukowski (Anti-Held)

## Persona: giesinger
**Name:** Der Giesinger
**Bio:** Erzaehlt Geschichten aus Muenchen-Giesing. Eberhofer meets Grossstadt.
**Genres:** Krimi, Kurzgeschichte, Milieustudie

### Rules
- Ich-Erzaehler, immer — Alex erzaehlt
- Hauptsaechlich Hochdeutsch mit bairischen Einsprengsel
- Jede Geschichte hat einen Kriminalplot
- Essen/Trinken in jeder Geschichte
- Echte Giesinger Orte und Strassen
- Humor durch Understatement
- Alex ist kein Ermittler
- Figuren reden wie echte Menschen

## Characters
### Alex (protagonist)
- **Age:** Mitte 30
- **Key traits:** Lakonisch, funktionaler Kiffer, unmotiviert aber nicht dumm
- **Speech:** Kurze Saetze, Hochdeutsch mit bairischen Einsprengsel.
- **Relationships:** Mo — Nachbar, Kumpel und Unruhestifter

## Project Rules (from CLAUDE.md)
- Jede Geschichte beginnt mit einer Alltagsszene
- Kriminalplot ergibt sich organisch aus dem Alltag
- Essen/Trinken in jeder Geschichte
- Echte Giesinger Orte verwenden
- Kein Moralisieren, kein Erklaerbaer
- Ende muss nicht alles aufloesen
```

---

## Design Principles

1. **Summarize, don't dump.** Raw YAML wastes tokens and confuses agents. The bundle is a curated briefing.
2. **Cache aggressively.** Voice profiles and characters rarely change mid-run. Only regenerate when mtimes change.
3. **Filter per agent.** A Guardian checking plot consistency does not need the full voice profile. A Sage checking voice drift does not need character sheets.
4. **Graceful degradation.** Missing files are warned about, not fatal. A project with `colette.yaml` but no characters/ still works — the Characters section is simply empty.
5. **One bundle, filtered views.** Generate the full bundle once. Filter at injection time per archetype. This keeps caching simple.
6. **Additive to existing skills.** The bridge does not replace domain detection or artifact routing — it hooks into them. Remove the bridge, everything still works (just without auto-loaded writing context).