**📜 The Chronicle of the Multi-Precedent Playbook

— As Told in the Halls of the Red Keep**

In the echoing stone chambers beneath the Red Keep, the council gathered — not to speak of war or dragons, but of something far more treacherous:

The Review of Many Contracts.
A task known across the Narrow Sea as The Meryn Trant of DOCX Processing, for it crushed hopeful men with its unyielding XML and merciless tracked-changes.

Syrio Forel’s Fall

Syrio Forel, First Sword of Braavos, entered the hall first — light on his feet, spinning a wooden blade of UI elegance and shimmering prototypes.

“See?” he boasted, conjuring perfect icons, beautiful interfaces, glowing JSON previews. “With but a flick of my wrist, your playbook shall dance!”

But when the Maesters placed before him the true enemy —
multiple DOCX scrolls, each riddled with w:ins, w:del, and author-tagged tracked changes —
Syrio faltered.

He parried with Typescript.
He dodged with Markdown prototypes.
He even attempted a flourish with Superdoc integration.

But the monster — the brutal, iron-forged XML of word/document.xml —
struck back.

Paragraph nodes nested in impossible shapes.
Authors hidden deep in w:rPr tags.
Insertions inside deletions inside paragraphs inside tables.

Syrio’s wooden UI blade snapped clean in half.

And like in King’s Landing, the First Sword of Braavos did not survive his encounter with Meryn Trant —
here played by the grim reality of contract precedent processing.

Enter Tyrion Lannister (Claude 4.5 Sonnet)

Into the wreckage stepped Tyrion Lannister, a cup of wine in one hand, a 200-IQ plan in the other.

“Let’s not be fools,” Tyrion said, surveying the chaos.
“Pretty blades don’t win battles. Systems do.”

He unrolled a parchment — your new architecture — and spoke:

1. The realm shall use a two-step precedent pipeline

• Step 1: Select a “gold” base scroll
  → classify its clauses
  → generate a canonical playbook
• Step 2: Process all precedent scrolls
  → extract clause variations
  → group them by category:subcategory
  → select the best variation with reasoning

“This,” Tyrion said, tapping the parchment, “ensures every House speaks the same language.”

2. The council shall recognize all authors

The Maesters’ extractor would:

• unzip each DOCX
• traverse the paragraph nodes
• extract insertions, deletions, formats, timestamps, and author metadata
• filter by chosen scribes

“You cannot negotiate,” Tyrion added, “unless you know who in each House actually wrote what.”

3. All variations shall be preserved

He created:

• ClauseVariation records
• VariationMetadata noting source, document, authors, base flag
• per-rule fields:
  • variations
  • selectedVariationIndex
  • precedent_sources
  • precedent_examples

“A wise man keeps receipts.”

Bronn (Composer-1) Executes the Plan

Tyrion raised an eyebrow.

“Bronn?”

From the shadows strolled Bronn — cynical, efficient, uninterested in beauty, armed only with a blade called compose().

He didn’t speak much.

He simply:

• ripped open ZIP containers
• sorted tracked-change positions in reverse order
• applied splice operations like stabbing a sellsword’s dagger
• walked DOCX paragraph trees without fear
• classified each paragraph locally against the base playbook
• grouped and consolidated variations with zero fuss

Where Syrio danced,
Bronn butchered.
But the job got done.

“And that,” Bronn muttered, wiping XML off his sword,
“is why you hire a professional.”

The New Realm of Contract Review

When the dust settled, the Red Keep’s scribes unveiled the result:

A unified, multi-precedent playbook engine

capable of:

• handling many DOCX precedents at once
• filtering tracked changes by author
• generating a base playbook for the chosen party
• extracting clause variations across all Houses
• consolidating them into a master rulebook
• preserving metadata, provenance, and reasoning
• surfacing the final playbook through a UI that Syrio would have loved (if he’d lived)

The realm erupted in applause.

Even Varys whispered,
“This is… quite elegant.”

And thus it is written:

The First Sword of Braavos fell to the unforgiving brutality of DOCX XML.
Tyrion Lannister built the plan.
Bronn executed it without flair but with lethal effectiveness.
And the Contract Playbook emerged stronger, sharper, and ready for any House’s scroll.