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name: editorial-provenance
description: Use when editing lore, fiction, quotes, transcripts, attributions, or other authored prose.
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# Editorial provenance

## Overview

Preserve authored wording and source provenance. Agents do not create creative
copy.

## When to Use

Use for lore, dialogue, quotes, attribution, marketing copy, transcripts, and
release-note prose.

## When NOT to Use

Do not use for purely functional data with no authored wording.

## Core Process

1. Find direct user text, an existing repository source, or a cited upstream
   source.
2. Preserve wording, order, names, links, and attribution.
3. Place the copy in an existing content field.
4. Recover missing authored text from working tree, Git history, or backups.
5. Stop if the source cannot be recovered.

Never invent connective prose, headings, summaries, chapter names, or
translations presented as authored copy.

## Red Flags

- New prose has no authoritative source.
- A quote or attribution was reworded.
- Missing text was reconstructed from memory.

## Verification

- [ ] Every added authored string has a source.
- [ ] Quotes and links are exact.
- [ ] No creative text was generated.
- [ ] The edit stayed inside an existing content surface.

## References

- `../../reference/content-map.md`
- `../../reference/wolves-runtime.md`