newtype-01/newtype-lite

newtype Lite is a collection of instruction files, packaged as a Skill, that turns a compatible AI coding agent into a lightweight content team assistant. It is designed to be installed inside agent environments like Codex and used when you need help with writing, research, editing, or fact-checking tasks without setting up a full separate product. The package revolves around a main router file called SKILL.md. When you give the agent a content task, that file determines which specialized method pack to load from the references folder. Each pack handles a different stage of content work: one for interviewing and clarifying a brief, one for source-backed research, one for drafting, one for editing and restructuring, one for fact-checking, one for extracting usable notes from raw material, and one for saving reusable knowledge summaries. Only the relevant pack loads for a given task, which keeps the system light. The project describes its underlying approach as: brief before draft, sources before claims, structure before prose, and verification before confidence. This is framed as the core content method that a full newtype OS product would also follow, but delivered here in a simpler format with no separate runtime or installation beyond copying files. Installation means copying SKILL.md and the references folder into wherever the agent expects Skills to live. For Codex, there is a two-line command in the README to do this. For other agents, the placement is manual. The README is explicit that newtype Lite is not a replacement for newtype OS, which is a full CLI product with a dedicated runtime, richer orchestration, and background task support. newtype Lite is described as the portable, no-runtime version of the same content methods, suited for quick content workflows inside a compatible agent session.