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Bid Leveling 4.0.0: Markdown bids in, one .xlsx out. The other three skills don't change.

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  A[scope-sheet.md + bid-*.md] -->|agent extracts| B[bid-data.json]
  B -->|node scripts/level.mjs| C[bid-tab.xlsx]
  C --> D[Leveled totals]
  C --> E[Scope]
  C --> F[Plugs]
  C --> G[Questions]

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• One output. The HTML bid tab and the Markdown brief are gone. Per-bidder questions are now a Questions sheet.
• Live formulas, with cached values. Leveled total = base bid + SUMIFS of plugs marked Carry "Yes". Open gaps use COUNTIFS, and "lowest complete" uses _xlfn.MINIFS. Editing a plug or its Carry cell recomputes everything.
• Suggested plugs count by default (3.0.0 kept them out until accepted). A suggested plug is the highest price another bidder itemized for that line, labelled Suggested: <bidder> itemized $X. Unclear scope gets no plug and stays open.
• Smaller contract. Dollars, not cents. One quote per scope cell instead of an evidence registry. Removed: alternates, bond/tax basis, scenarios, row classes and governing submissions. Bond, tax and alternates go in the bid's notes.

{ "bidder": "Northgate Drywall & Acoustics", "file": "input-bid-northgate.md", "total": 752000, "addenda": [1],
  "scope": { "sheathing": { "status": "excluded", "quote": "Exterior sheathing by others." } } }

• Smaller sample. Three drywall bids and eight scope lines, all Markdown. Northgate has the lowest base bid but misses Addendum 2 and stays incomplete. Ridgeline is leveled on its next-morning revision. Prairie is the lowest complete at $803,800.
• scripts/level.mjs is now one dependency-free file. The skill folder drops from about 4,900 lines to about 650.
• evals/reviews/bid-leveling/REPORT.md records the LibreOffice recalculation check and a fresh-context comparison against 3.0.0.

Marketing follow-up (buildrtech/marketing#847): the Bid Leveling page loses its live HTML tab and shows the workbook instead. Bump DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL and src/data/skills-catalog.json, rerun pnpm skills:previews, and update tests that expect output-bid-tab.html, output-bid-brief.md or samples/bids/.

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Rework bid-leveling skill to level Markdown bids into one XLSX workbook

• Replaces the scenario/HTML/brief workflow with a single level.mjs that reads a bid-data JSON file and writes one Excel workbook; --json prints the leveled analysis instead.
• leveling indexes explicit plugs, creates gap records for excluded/omitted/unclear scope lines, suggests plugs from the highest itemized amount by another bidder, and computes cent-based leveled totals, open-gap counts, and lowest base/complete bids.
• The workbook is built with a dependency-free ZIP/XLSX writer and contains four sheets (leveled totals, scope, plugs, questions) with live formulas and deterministic, reproducible bytes.
• Adds validation that aggregates all schema and consistency errors before leveling runs.
• Updates SKILL.md to the new Markdown-input, single-workbook workflow, replaces sample fixtures, adds tests in level.test.mjs, and bumps the skill to 4.0.0 and the marketplace to 0.10.0.
• Risk: this is a breaking change for the bid-leveling skill — the old leveling-core module, scenario/HTML/brief outputs, evidence registry, and sample assets are removed; consumers of the catalog bundle receive the revised asset inventory.

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