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Rebuilds proposal-builder around answering an owner's RFP after a go decision, compliance first. It still renders with pdfcn and Forme.

• In:
  • the RFP (or RFP Intake's extraction)
  • a reusable company-library/ (projects, people, safety, approach text), each file dated when last verified
  • prior proposals
  • the user's fee and team details
• Out:
  • the proposal PDF in the RFP's tab order
  • compliance-check.md
  • proposal.json, with a source on every claim
• Draft until the user approves; nothing is signed or submitted.

How it works

templates/proposal-core.mjs is dependency-free. The renderer and scripts/check.mjs share it.

• Blocking (the check exits 1):
  • a requirement no section answers
  • a missing required form
  • counted pages over the limit, measured per section on the rendered PDF with pdftotext
  • an unpriced fee
• Warnings:
  • a requirement answered only by unconfirmed claims from prior proposals
  • library or prior sources older than freshnessMonths (default 12)
  • values that differ between sources (EMR, project values), flagged when the proposal uses the older one
• Fee: an absent fee is unpriced, never $0. Lump sums must be positive and reconcile; percentage lines (CM fee, bonds) stay out of the total.

node scripts/setup.mjs ./workspace && cd workspace
npm run render -- proposal.json proposal.pdf
node /path/to/skill/scripts/check.mjs proposal.json --pdf proposal.pdf --out compliance-check.md

Renderer: RFP tab labels, project and team cards with a field grid, grouped narrative lists, a fee band and table, a forms checklist, and a compliance matrix appendix. In DRAFT, every item shows its source, and unconfirmed prior claims print in rust with "confirm still true".

Sample

Cedar Hollow County's Riverside Branch Library, a CM at Risk RFP with a 20-page limit. Inputs: the RFP PDF, Larkspur Builders' library, two prior proposal PDFs, and the user's fee and team email. Planted problems:

• Tab G (small and local business, 5 points) has no library content
• Form 2 isn't included
• the 2024 proposal carries a 2023 EMR and a GMP instead of the final cost
• a "within 3% of GMP" claim is lifted from the 2024 proposal

The rendered PDF is 10 pages, 6 of them counted toward the limit. The check reports 2 blocking items and 2 warnings.

Fixes from the 1.0.0 review

• P1: a $0 proposal is no longer possible.
• Every sample item cites a real page or library file.
• PDF metadata is ASCII, so the title no longer shows mojibake.
• Non-two-decimal currencies are rejected instead of rounded.
• Setup: portable path check, npm.cmd on Windows, and cleanup on failure.

Verification

• evals/tasks/proposal-builder/proposal-core.test.mjs: 12 tests. CI now installs Poppler. The tests cover:
  • the bundled compliance check reproduced byte for byte from the bundled PDF
  • per-section page measurement
  • fixing the planted gaps clears every blocking item
  • fee rules, validation, and exit codes
• 10 deliberate breaks to the core each failed between 1 and 4 tests.
• Rendering:
  • A fresh setup.mjs workspace rendered the sample.
  • Every page was rasterized and inspected; I fixed a card left alone on its own page.
  • The pdfinfo title is clean.
• The page preview is 225 KB, under the catalog's 256 KB inline limit, so the marketing site can show it.
• Not yet tested: a fresh agent building from a library and RFP it hasn't seen.

Version 2.0.0, marketplace 0.9.0.

Note

Rebuild proposal-builder as a compliance-first RFP response skill (v2.0.0)

• Replaces the free-form brief-to-proposal workflow with an RFP response workflow: every submittal requirement, scored criterion, form, and page limit is mapped in proposal.json before writing, and content is drawn from a dated company library and prior proposals with per-item source citations.
• Adds a shared dependency-free core (proposal-core.mjs) that validates proposal data (metadata, sources, RFP requirements, fees, currencies) and a compliance checker CLI (check.mjs) that measures PDF pages via Poppler and blocks handoff on unanswered requirements, missing forms, over-limit pages, or an unpriced fee.
• Rewrites the renderer (render.tsx) to render dynamic sections (cards, letters, fee tables, forms checklists, compliance matrix) instead of the fixed four-chapter layout; draft PDFs show per-item source lines and flag unconfirmed prior-proposal claims.
• Adds company-library sample data (projects, people, safety, boilerplate), a full Riverside Branch Library sample package, a data-contract reference, and a Node test suite (proposal-core.test.mjs); the validation workflow now installs Poppler and runs the new test command.
• Risk: the old flat proposal shape and validate.mjs are removed — document-contract.md is deleted and replaced by data-contract.md, so any consumer of the former proposal format must migrate; the skill catalog entry moves from estimating to preconstruction and bumps to 2.0.0.

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