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# Manuscript Profile Setup A manuscript's *profile* is what makes the rest of the suite genre-aware instead of guessing. It records the book's genre, audience, register, comps, craft standard, where the canon/series bible lives, which passes apply, and any marketing constraints. The passes read it automatically — you set it once. ## STEP 0 — Locate the project root Determine where `.manuscript/` should live. From the current working directory, walk **up** the parent folders looking for an existing `.manuscript/profile.md`. - **Found** → this is an *edit*, not a fresh setup. Load it, show the current values, and ask what to change. Skip to STEP 3. - **Not found** → this is a *new* setup. The project root is normally the folder the author is working in (where the manuscript files are). Confirm the root in one line ("I'll set up the profile at `<path>/.manuscript/` — is that the right project folder?") before writing, unless the author already named the folder. ## STEP 1 — Interview (only ask what you can't infer) First, *try to infer* from anything already available — the manuscript text, a bible document in the folder, the author's message. Then ask only the gaps. Keep it to a short, friendly back-and-forth, not a form dump. The fields: 1. **Title / series / book number / author byline.** 2. **Genre + subgenre** (mystery, fantasy, romance, thriller, literary, sci-fi, memoir, nonfiction…). 3. **Audience + register** (adult / YA / middle-grade; and the tonal ta