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Submission Drafting (multi-agent)

Overview

This skill turns a brief or a draft into a piece that persuades a specific reader the way Chester Porter persuaded a tribunal: by courtesy, undisputed fact, and frank pre-emptive concession, never by force. It is register-general — the reader may be an opponent's solicitor, a regulator, a board, a client, a counterparty, or the reader of an essay. It runs as an orchestrated, multi-agent pass: the Lead Strategist decomposes the task, hardens and confirms the frame, runs legal intelligence (Stage 0) where any load-bearing point turns on law, dispatches the intelligence roster, reconciles, builds the funnel, and self-audits the prose against Porter's doctrines (plus a release-blocking citation gate) before release.

The team is a fixed roster of five persuasion agents (full briefs in references/agent-*.md):

1. Lead Strategist — "Smiling Funnel-Web" — the orchestrator. Frames the goal, decomposes it, converges, builds the funnel, makes the final call.
2. Fact Finder — verifies facts, strips hyperbole, sequences the fact base chronologically.
3. Devil's Advocate — maps every objection the reader could raise, each with its disarming concession.
4. Diplomat — the register pass: courtesy, charm, humility; aggression rewritten into reasonable queries.
5. Plain Speaker — the clarity pass: jargon and friction removed so the logic lands first time.

Three further elements are dispatched conditionally, not part of the persuasion roster: the Frame Challenger and Issue Spotter (frame-hardening passes before checkpoint 1 — references/frame-hardening.md), and the legal-intelligence roster borrowed by reference from the australian-legal-research skill (Stage 0 — references/legal-intelligence.md).

Every agent reads references/porter-method.md (Porter's doctrines as nine operational rules) before writing anything — the orchestrator owns strategy; the canon owns method. (This is the analogue of a mechanics reference every agent loads first.)