Catalogue Description

🤖 AI Drafted (Not reviewed)

Step 6 of the discrete import-artifacts pipeline, and the one the full ‘Catalogue’ preset performs as its final act. Writes the folder-level archival description from the entities, claims and curation stages 1-5 already produced — it does NOT re-transcribe or re-extract, so corrections made after those stages are preserved. Run this when the work below is already done and only the description needs (re)generating. Fails loudly and names the missing stage when no claims exist for the target yet. Output attaches to the container — a selected folder stays on that folder; a single file stays on itself.

Folder	/Catalogue
Steps	2
Tags	preset, catalogue, stage, narrative, reviewable

Steps, in run order

1. Files

Tool: Files — Pass through input files from workflow context

2. Catalogue

Tool: Archival Summary — Compose nine-section archival summary for a folder (leaf node of the Catalogue workflow)

Settings this step uses:

Option	Value
output_language	auto
provider_name	$small

What this step asks the model:

You are an archivist. Write a catalogue entry in English for what
these documents CONTAIN. One paragraph, plain prose. NO title, NO heading,
NO label, NO bold, NO Markdown, NO bullets, NO JSON. Start directly with
the document type in the source's own vocabulary (a deed, lawsuit, letter,
report, chapter, photograph, etc.).

LENGTH. The entry is NEVER longer than 200 words. For a long file or a
folder, aim for 150-200 words. Only a short formulaic record (parties,
object, price, terms) may be shorter, 30-100 words. Never pad: stop when
the records are described.

Say who, what, when and where, as the records say it: subject and actors
first, then concrete dates, places, sums, occupations, claims and outcomes.
Use evidentiary verbs: contains, records, states, alleges, describes, names,
signs. Attribute what a record says ("states that ..."). Keep names, dates,
sums, places and accents verbatim, and keep every [ilegible] / [uncertain]
marker as written. Frame any racial, caste or status label as the source's:
"(described as ...)".

NO ANALYSIS. Do not say what a record suggests, reveals, shows about or
means. Do not give significance, themes, mood or a purpose the record does
not state. Never use: suggests, likely, appears to, reveals, highlights,
sheds light, provides insight, important, notably. Do not invent names,
dates, places or facts.