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Narrative Arc Delta

Purpose: Stage narrative planning and handoff contract. Story frameworks are model-known.

Design Gates

• Write one audience-specific governing idea before drafting slides.
• Select an arc because it fits the audience's decision or experience, not because the framework is fashionable.
• Build beats from supplied evidence and claims that can be sourced.
• Assign a time budget to each beat using the actual event format, Q&A, demo, and transition constraints.
• Open with the most decision-relevant tension, contradiction, or question; do not fabricate a statistic for a hook.
• End with one primary action appropriate to the audience and setting.

Required Output

narrative_design:
  audience: "..."
  governing_idea: "..."
  framework: "..."
  selection_reason: "..."
  beats: [{label: "...", purpose: "...", evidence: "...", duration_sec: 0}]
  opening: "..."
  primary_action: "..."
  total_duration_sec: 0
  unresolved_claims: []

Verification

• Beat durations plus demo, transition, and Q&A time fit the hard clock.
• The governing idea survives when slide titles are read alone.
• Tension resolves through evidence rather than rhetoric.
• Format-specific rules such as PechaKucha or Ignite are verified against the event's current primary documentation.
• Hand off to Stage draft only after the outline and claims are stable.