---
name: curate-audiobooks
description: Inventory, match, convert, repair, or audit an audiobook library while preserving immutable sources and reviewed edition identity.
---
# Curate audiobooks

Use only the operations needed for the requested curation task. An inventory
or audit does not require conversion, Audible matching, or transcript review.

## Safety boundary

- Treat every source as immutable. Never rename, delete, overwrite, or use a
  selected source path as a conversion output.
- For source selection, start with `inventory_sources` or `audit_library`,
  then use `select_sources`. A targeted audit can use its known file directly.
- Treat `convert_audiobook`, `apply_audiobook_metadata`, and
  `apply_audiobook_chapters` as plans unless `apply: true` was explicitly
  approved for the exact paths and evidence shown to the user. Complete the
  relevant plan and read-only evidence before requesting a missing approval;
  reuse existing approval while those paths and evidence remain unchanged.
- Convert into local scratch or another derived destination. Metadata/chapter
  repair is appropriate only for an explicitly selected derived file.
- Audible ranking is evidence, never acceptance. Record the user's reviewed
  choice with `select_audible_edition`.
- An Audiolocate match is strong same-recording evidence, but does not choose an
  edition. Whisper transcript windows require human language/story/narrator
  review. Never infer identity from a filename alone.
- Finish changed media with `audit_audiobook`; request full decode when complete
  decode evidence is wanted.

## Full curation workflow

For complete curation, use the sequence below. For a focused request, perform
only its relevant steps while preserving the safety boundary.

1. Inventory the narrowest selected library root and retain probe failures.
2. Audit gaps, duplicate candidates, and multipart groups; make no deletion
   claims.
3. Select the best probed encoding while retaining alternates and duration
   review warnings.
4. Search Audible regions, inspect the exact score facets, optionally collect
   acoustic/transcript evidence, and record one human-reviewed edition.
5. Cache the reviewed product, chapter document, artwork, and source URLs.
6. Plan conversion. After explicit approval, apply it to a separate output and
   confirm sources remained unchanged.
7. Plan then explicitly apply metadata/artwork and chapter repair to the derived
   media when needed.
8. Run the integrity audit and report chapter, hash, source-mapping, probe, and
   decode status without overstating inconclusive evidence.

The CLI script exposes the same operations when a terminal workflow is more
appropriate than individual MCP calls.