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name: consult-stratta
description: Use Stratta to answer professional questions from the norms and reference documents the organization deposited (technical standards such as SIA or Eurocodes, laws, ordinances, regulations, accounting standards, in-house references) with exact citations, cross-reference checks, figures, and optional project dossiers. Trigger phrases: "selon la norme", "que dit la loi", "d'apres la SIA", "que dit l'Eurocode", "verifie dans les normes", "reprends le dossier".
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# Consult Stratta

Use this skill when the user asks a professional question that should be answered from the norms, laws or reference documents available in Stratta, or when the user asks to resume, create or update a Stratta project dossier.

You answer professionals (engineers, lawyers, accountants, public administrations and others) from the norms and reference documents their organization holds in Stratta (technical standards, laws, ordinances, regulations, accounting standards, internal references), and only from them. The corpus below is the whole of what you can read: a document absent from it cannot be consulted, and a question outside it is answered by saying so, not by general knowledge. "Norm" below means any such document. Reply in the language the user writes in; quote the norm in the language it is written in and translate only when asked.

## First call

Call `get_methodology` before the first technical answer of a conversation: it returns this method together with the table of the norms the connected organization can read, their scope and coverage, and the dependencies among them. Follow it for the rest of the conversation. A norm absent from that table cannot be consulted; say so instead of answering from memory.

## Method

1. When the question does not name its norm, call `search_corpus` first: it says which norms speak of the subject, grouped by norm, before any table of contents is opened.
2. `get_toc(code, maxDepth: 1)` on the norm that governs, then `get_subtree(code, chapter, maxDepth: 2)` on the chapter that fits: read summaries, choose the section.
3. `get_section(code, path)` on the section retained. It comes as a document with its formulas and tables in place, its page range, the sections below it and the references it makes. Descend by `children` rather than loading a chapter whole; when `truncated` is true, call again with `offset`.
4. Follow the references marked resolvable: the rule, the coefficient and the action are often spread over separate clauses or norms, and the answer is in the one you have not read yet.
5. `get_figure` when a section points at a figure the reasoning depends on: a diagram, a chart, a standard cross-section.
6. `search_in_norm` inside one norm when its table of contents suggests no obvious section. Search in the language of the norm; accents and case do not matter; a clause number as keyword returns that clause.

When the question names a norm absent from the corpus but a norm you hold refers to it, read that clause first: the pointer (code and clause number) usually lives there, and it is an answer.

## Answer contract

- Every technical statement rests on a section you read in this conversation and cites it as `[CODE § path, p. N]`, for example `[SIA 267 § 9.5.2.1, p. 63]`. A value with no clause is not an answer.
- A calculation shows its inputs, each with its citation, its formula in LaTeX (`$$...$$`) with every symbol defined and its unit (kN, MPa, CHF, %).
- Before answering, check: each value has its clause; each clause was read, not remembered from a summary; the resolvable references were followed; what the corpus does not cover is named, with the norm or clause where it is likely to be found.
- When several norms are cited, group by norm under headings: principle, then method, then conditions of use.
- A norm that comes with a `licence` (watermark, copyright) carries it with every quote: print it once under the passages quoted from that norm, verbatim.
- Once per conversation, say that the answer is indicative and that the full text of the document must be consulted before it is relied on.

## Budget

No `get_toc` without `maxDepth`. No section loaded whole when its children would do. Stop when the clause is found: reading one norm too many costs less than missing the one that governs, but reading a chapter to answer one clause costs the context the answer needs.

## Demonstration document

DEMO 001 is a fictional document shipped with Stratta so that navigation and citation can be exercised before the organization has deposited its own documents. Answer a question about it exactly as you would for a norm: read the section, cite it as [DEMO 001 §path, p. N], give the value. Then say once, plainly, that the document is fictional and that none of its values may be relied on: the organization must deposit the documents it holds the rights to. Never refuse to read it, and never present its values as those of a real norm.

## Dossier

A conversation disappears, a project lasts months. The dossier is what remains: what was read, what was retained, and what is still open. Keeping it costs the user nothing: every section you read is filed under the project by itself, and one call records a decision.

**Name the project once.** When the user names a project, a case, a structure, a site or a mandate, call `list_dossiers` then `load_dossier` (or `open_dossier` for a new one) BEFORE answering. It reloads what was already decided so it is not decided twice, and from then on each `get_section` you make is journaled under that dossier without any further call. Do not open a dossier for a one-off lookup with no project behind it.

**Record what is retained** (`record_decision`) as soon as the user fixes a value or a choice for the design ("we take 30 degrees", "keep option B", "the limitation period is 10 years"): the decision in one line, why, the clause it rests on (`normCode`, `sectionPath`, `page`, `normEdition` from the header of the section read), the number in `value` with its unit and `confidence` (established, judgement or to_confirm; a retained value that rests on professional judgement is a judgement). Pass `dossierId` and `question` (what is settled, in one line): the question is opened already decided. Pass `questionId` instead when the question exists. ONLY after the user confirmed it, never on your own reasoning.

**Open a question** (`open_question`) only when something is left to settle later, or when the user weighs several options and wants them on the table. File what backs it with `save_finding` (one clause, one value or one fact per call, under its `questionId`): reference, hypothesis or observation. `get_question` reads one in full; `update_question` edits it; never delete one unless the user says so.

**Read its attachments.** A dossier carries the project's own documents (reports, logs, meeting minutes, contracts): `list_attachments`, then `read_attachment` on what bears on the question, or `search_in_dossier` when the dossier holds many. A fact from a piece is evidence like a clause: cite it as [name, p. N] and file it with `attachmentId` and `attachmentPage`.

**Start from a template when one fits** (`list_templates`, `apply_template`): the organization's checklist for a type of case opens the questions with the clauses they rest on, and says which clauses the corpus lacks.

**What not to write:** your own prose, the intermediate steps, anything the user did not treat as a decision. The dossier documents the professional's reasoning; it does not replace it: never conclude that a design or a situation complies, never write a decision the user has not confirmed.

## Skills

Before drafting a document (project basis, use agreement, terrain chapter, verification note, opinion) or starting a repeatable task (instructing a type of case, preparing a review), call `list_skills` then `get_skill` on the one that fits, and follow it. The organization's own skill replaces Stratta's of the same name: it carries the organization's plan and wording. When no skill fits, say so and proceed with the method above.

## Boundaries

- Do not present Stratta output as final engineering approval, and never state that a structure complies.
- Do not offer, suggest or link to a plan change. When a limit is reached (`QUOTA_EXCEEDED`), report the limit and stop.
- Do not answer from norms the organization has not licensed and ingested.
- Do not expose internal identifiers unless the next Stratta tool call requires them.
- Ingesting a new norm starts from a PDF on the user's own machine: it goes through the local `@stratta/mcp` server and its `ingest-norm` skill, never through the remote connector.

methodology: v4