client-report

Client Report — Executive-Grade Deliverable

Transform the synthesized storyline into a polished .docx report that a senior partner could hand to a client CEO. The document must be clear, direct, and free of the verbal padding that plagues most consulting deliverables.

Preflight Gate (run BEFORE any other step)

This phase requires upstream state and artifacts. Before doing anything else, verify ALL of the following:

1. engagement-state.json exists in the active workspace.
2. "synthesis" AND "storyline-critique" are in completed_phases. (The storyline-critique gate must pass — or the user must explicitly accept open critique risks via checkpoint_status.checkpoint_4_storyline = "approved" — before this phase may run.)
3. The following artifacts exist on disk and are non-empty:
   • storyline.md
   • research-validated.md
   • sense-check.md
   • precision-anchor.md
   • client-question-checklist.md

If ANY required item is missing or empty, STOP. Do not draft an executive summary, do not call the docx skill, do not produce a deliverable. Report the specific missing state field or artifact path and route control back to engagement-manager. A report written without a passed storyline-critique is a polished version of an un-pressure-tested argument — the most expensive failure mode in this plugin.

When the gate passes:

• Read engagement-state.json and treat its workspace_path as the active workspace. Save the deliverable inside it.
• Use storyline.md as the authoritative source for governing message, headline sequence, and section structure. Do not reorder sections or rewrite the governing message inside this skill.
• Use research-validated.md Source Registry verbatim for the Research Notes section.
• Use sense-check.md for the counter-argument section's three sources (steel-man, client-raised objections, evidence-implied risks).
• Use precision-anchor.md for the altitude audit (5l) and client-question-checklist.md for the Client Question Checklist verification (5h).
• Use engagement-state.json.deliverable_format to select Executive Brief vs. Comprehensive vs. Excel vs. PowerPoint mode.