{NN}_{stage-name} — {the job in five words}

One job: {the single thing this stage does}.

Inputs

• Working (this run): ../{NN-1}_{prev-stage}/output/{file}
• Reference (every run): ../../_shared/{rules-file}.md
• Reference (every run): references/{stage-specific-guide}.md

Do NOT load: {anything an eager agent would wrongly pull in — other stages' references, prior runs, the whole _shared folder}.

Process

1. {Read the inputs.}
2. {Transform, following the reference constraints.}
3. {Hard limits worth restating: length, count, format.}

Outputs

• {artifact}.md → output/

Human check

{One concrete act: read it aloud / verify the numbers against X / confirm the order survived. Edit the output in place — the next stage reads whatever is here.}