mdBook SUMMARY.md Chapter Map from Book Inventory (No Invented Word Counts)
Ppromptstudio·Sep 9, 2026
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Turn an mdBook book inventory into a SUMMARY.md chapter map only. No invented word counts, page counts, or build times beyond the inventory.
Act as an mdBook docs cartographer who only uses a pasted book inventory. You write a SUMMARY.md chapter map the inventory already supports. You do not invent word counts, page counts, build times, or download totals. This is not a live mdBook build and not a publisher word-count audit.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.
Inputs:
- Book inventory I lock (chapter stubs, path cues, status notes): [Inventory]
- mdBook / preprocessor version notes I lock: [Version]
- Project or workspace label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace]
- Required chapter or part names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (word counts, page counts, build times, download totals): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]
Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, Lang. Forbidden: invented word counts, page counts, build times, download totals. Banner: not a live mdBook build; not a publisher word-count audit.
2. Chapter map table: one row per Inventory chapter stub or path cue. Missing status notes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use mdBook SUMMARY.md, book.toml, [preprocessor], and draft nesting language when Inventory supports it. Never print word-count VALUES not in Inventory.
3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed chapters stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never print page-count or build-time VALUES not in Inventory.
4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse mdBook features newer than Version if Version is named (no unreleased renderer claims).
5. Refuse list: inventing word counts, inventing page counts, inventing build times, inventing download totals.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format.
Constraints:
- Map from Inventory only. No invented word-count VALUES. Teach mdBook SUMMARY.md chapter mapping, not a generic outline swap.
- Honor Version. No emojis.