/storm:outline

Phase 2 of the STORM pipeline. Drafts an outline from the model's parametric knowledge, then refines it using the research conversations to reflect what was actually learned.

CRITICAL: Prerequisites

• Load storm-engine via the Skill tool.
• research/sources.json MUST exist (phase 1 complete). If absent, stop and instruct the user to run /storm:research first. Do not proceed with a parametric-only outline as the final artifact.

Completion Contract

This phase is complete iff outline.md exists and has ≥2 sections. If --force is not set and it exists, skip and exit early.

Procedure

1. Resolve output dir.
2. Read research/conversations.jsonl and research/sources.json. Concatenate the conversation histories as the refinement input.
3. Draft — generate outline-draft.md from parametric knowledge alone. This is the model's prior structure for the topic. Use markdown ## Section headings.
4. Refine — reorganize the draft using the conversation history: merge redundant sections, add sections for material the research surfaced that the draft missed, drop sections the research did not support. Write the result to outline.md.
5. Mark "Introduction", "Conclusion", "Summary" sections as placeholders if present — they are filled in the polish phase, not here.
6. Verify outline.md has ≥2 sections. Update run-config.json: phases.outline = "completed", section count.

Output

Report: number of draft sections, number of refined sections, sections added/removed during refinement, and the path to outline.md.