write-supplemental

Automating editorial planning for supplemental editions requires coordinating topic briefs, reporter voices, and templates to design coverage plans, assign agents, and compile a ready-to-review package. You provide a topic and the workflow orchestrates 2-4 editors to draft articles, headlines, and assessments.

Generating a supplemental edition requires a topic brief at output/supplemental-briefs/{topic_slug}_brief.md, reporter voice files at docs/media/voices/{reporter}.md, and a template at editions/SUPPLEMENTAL_TEMPLATE.md. An intake pipeline for saving, printing, and memory updates is also needed.

Agent coordination supports producing breaking news supplements from engine signals, user input, or desk briefs. The workflow launches 2-4 editors to draft articles and compiles the final edition with metadata and credits, supporting Breaking News, Deep Dive, Color, and Sports Special use cases.

Compiling a publish-ready edition uses template-driven assembly to combine articles, headers, and credits. The workflow applies a template at editions/SUPPLEMENTAL_TEMPLATE.md to merge content from assigned agents, producing a final package with optional print-ready output.

Template-driven editorial compilation includes optional civic validation checks and newsroom memory updates to continuity notes. After assembling articles, headlines, and assessments, the workflow can verify content and update memory records as part of the intake pipeline.

An automated supplemental edition workflow is not suited for contexts lacking a structured topic brief, reporter voice files, or an editorial template. Without these prerequisites and an intake pipeline for saving and memory updates, the agent coordination and template-driven compilation cannot function properly.