Summarizes very long texts (books, handbooks, biographies, codebases) using hierarchical multi-pass extraction with cheap model armies. Produces structured knowledge maps, not just summaries. Use when processing 50+ page documents, professional handbooks, career biographies, or any text too large for a single context window. Activate on "summarize book", "summarize handbook", "long document", "extract knowledge", "distill text", "professional biography". NOT for short text summarization (<10 pages), real-time chat summarization, or code documentation (use technical-writer).
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