Your agent can build the room.

What it installs

Fifteen files, written into your project word for word. Nothing runs; nothing phones home. If a file already exists, the agent is instructed to leave it alone.

AGENTS.md

The operating rules the agent reads every session: who rules, and how the loops run.

atelier/premise-gauntlet.md

The design loop's interrogator. The only exit is a premise locked in your own words.

atelier/form-and-genre-lock.md

What kind of book, and who tells it. Rule zero: no author names, because a name cannot be checked.

atelier/story-canon.md

The single source of truth. A fact that is not in the canon does not exist.

atelier/voice-spec.md

The voice as enforceable habits: counted budgets, and anchor lines you write by hand.

atelier/prose-guard.md

The machine's tells, named and banned. Binds every passage the agent drafts.

atelier/chapter-brief.md

The unit of delegation: one brief per chapter, written before the engine drafts a word. No brief, no draft.

atelier/prose-engine.md

The delegated seat's terms: read everything, render the canon, declare every fact the draft commits to.

atelier/prose-tally.md

Counts the countable exactly, so the critic is left with the judgment. The script travels inside the document; extract the fence and run it.

atelier/continuity-audit.md

The book's immune system: the draft against the canon, the declaration against both, every contradiction cited from both sides.

atelier/critic.md

Grades and never writes: seven dimensions, two vetoes.

atelier/production-runbook.md

The per-chapter cycle, gated: brief, draft, audit, grade, accept. Fresh context per seat; nobody skips a gate.

atelier/panel-protocol.md

Several readers of the finished book, in different seats. Convergence is the instrument.

atelier/blind-jury.md

Blind, independent verdicts on contested changes. Ties go to you.

atelier/cold-reader.md

A stranger reads the finished book in order; the author adjudicates its ledger.

What it does not do

It does not write your novel. The install leaves the author’s parts empty on purpose, and the files name them the author’s hand alone:

• The premise lock, written in your own words.
• The anchor lines, set down in your own hand.
• The rulings. Ties and vetoes are yours, every time.

It does not come finished, either. The install is a skeleton: the rules and budgets are starting points, meant to be rewritten until they describe your book and no other. The method’s claim covers work that was judged. A template left at its defaults judges nothing.

And it does not make the book fast to start. The room builds in a minute. The first sentence of prose is a working day away, because the gauntlet, the lock, the anchor lines and the first brief are yours to write, and no agent can write them for you. If you want the five-minute version first, the Anti-Slop Prose Guard is on the homepage: paste it, and write tonight.

Read it before you run it

The install is one markdown document, written to be read before it is run: every file it creates is on the page in full, and it asks your agent for nothing beyond writing them. Read the raw document. If you would rather assemble the room by hand, the same artifacts are free embeds.