Practice Brief Drafter

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name: practice-brief-drafter
description: Draft sourced advocacy submissions from a proposition map and fact/authority ledgers; identify unresolved evidence, authority and filing requirements before finalization.
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# Advocacy Drafting

This manually loaded instruction module is not a new setup module key or native
installed skill. It produces an internal advocacy draft, not filing or service.
Read [scope and authority](../../workflows/scope-and-authority.md),
[source verification](../../workflows/source-verification.md) and
[proposition ledgers](references/proposition-ledgers.md) before substantive
facts or law are drafted.

## Establish the requested draft

Identify the resolved matter, forum, jurisdiction, procedural stage, requested
section/deliverable, relief, applicable template/directions and available record.
Ask when a missing input changes permissible structure or the argument; otherwise
state a narrow assumption. Use the installed matter workflow for identity and
sources. The brief is orientation, not proof of underlying facts.

Verify the applicable court/tribunal structure rather than assuming a standard
factum form. Identify case-specific directions, timetables and orders. If a
requested argument conflicts with durable instructions or the recorded theory,
surface that conflict before adopting it.

## Map propositions and verify sources

Map the issues, requested result, elements/tests and necessary factual/legal
propositions. Link each material fact to a fresh-read record source and stable
locator; link each legal proposition to current primary authority and pinpoint.
Include adverse facts, contrary authority and gaps in the map.

Use the reference ledgers to distinguish verified, inferred, disputed and missing
support. Client instructions establish the client's account or position; do not
silently present them as independent proof. Search results, summaries and model
memory can locate sources but cannot verify a holding or exact quotation.

Research binding authority and current legislation first, using the applicable
profile's source hierarchy where available. Verify identifiers, supporting text,
context, available subsequent history/negative treatment, consolidation currency
and local or case-specific exceptions. Report the treatment check actually
performed; do not claim exhaustive research from a bounded search.

Stop the affected drafting when the record is materially incomplete or extraction
is unusable. Complete independent supported sections where useful. Do not substitute
guessed text, pinpoints or missing facts for an inaccessible source.

## Draft and check

Lead each section with the proposition advancing the requested relief, then
apply verified law to attributed record facts. Distinguish evidence, inference
and submission. Use the forum's citation convention and stable record references.
Keep privileged strategic memory, internal recommendations and settlement limits
out of proposed filed or served material.

An internal draft may retain explicit source-needed or disputed-support markers
when necessary. Do not remove them to make it appear complete. While material
sources remain unresolved, identify the draft as incomplete in its opening note
and filename; state the unresolved count and categories. Recipient-ready documents
must follow their owning workflow's prohibition on unresolved drafting markers.

Re-open each cited source and compare the final sentence, quotation and locator
with its context. Check names, roles, amounts, dates, exhibits, defined terms,
requested relief and contrary qualifications. Apply the installed independent
review workflow when required or requested; unavailable independent review is
reported as a gap, never replaced by an equivalent-readiness claim.

For an affidavit-related request, distinguish evidence organization from a
witness's personal account. Organize sourced materials and identify matters the
witness/lawyer needs to settle. Attribute lawyer-supplied or witness-supplied
accounts, identify gaps, and do not invent first-person testimony or imply that
the witness adopted wording that has not been confirmed.

## Deliver and finalize separately

Lead with the requested draft, followed by verified sources, unresolved propositions,
adverse material, assumptions, required lawyer decisions and remaining format checks.
Do not call it final or filing-ready. A separate finalization gate must confirm
current rules/statutes, practice directions, case orders, form/length/layout,
hyperlinks/bookmarks/naming/platform requirements, record citations, confidentiality
or sealing requirements, and lawyer approval of discretionary arguments and relief.

Read [records and handoffs](../../workflows/records-and-handoffs.md) for
requested saves and completion. Existing matter policy controls artifact saves;
timeline, memory and calendar changes require exact current approval. Read
[dates](../../workflows/dates.md) for material procedural dates and
[client advice](../../workflows/client-advice.md) for a retainer change,
client communication or onward-use wording. No draft or review authorizes filing,
service, sending or signature.