# Execution Plan

## Current Medium Branch

- Branch: MV shot-image production for later video assembly.
- Format: 16:9 horizontal.
- Production mode: image assets first; video generation/editing remains manual or semi-manual until explicitly automated.
- Prompt ownership: Codex owns final image prompts; GPT intake is source specification, not final prompt.

## Current Execution Focus

Prepare the execution base, not the full MV.

Immediate focus:

1. Build and validate the character anchor board.
2. Build and validate the style anchor board.
3. Use both anchors in a small visual test package.
4. Only after tests pass, expand into broader shot production.

## Materialization Targets

| Target | Required Output | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Character anchor board | Main 16:9 board on shallow gray-white background | accepted v2 |
| Character transparent slices | Front full body, side full body, back full body, walking side, walking back | accepted v2-from-anchor set |
| Character labels | Short identity, clothing, prop, and boundary labels | pending |
| Style anchor board | 16:9 dark-gray board with A/B/C/D samples | accepted |
| C style retest | Dark muddy puddle / broken star reflection sample | accepted |
| Shot test package | S-01, S-10, S-46, S-47, S-51 | accepted |

## Small-Batch Strategy

Do not generate all 51 shots first.

Round 1 uses five shots because they test the system's biggest risks:

| Shot | Why It Is In Round 1 | Anchor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| S-01 | Opening landscape: proves world-before-person and main A composition. | A |
| S-10 | Steel canyon: proves city pressure without tech/UI drift. | B |
| S-46 | Muddy starlight: proves the soul image and C repair. | C |
| S-47 | Night road fire: proves restrained near-fire transition after C. | D |
| S-51 | Final wide: proves distant fire, no victory, no gathering, person remains small. | D |

Round 1 success means these are true:

- The traveler stays recognizable without becoming a portrait subject.
- A/B/C/D feel like one MV, not four unrelated styles.
- C is no longer sunrise/pretty reflection and has clear muddy starlight.
- D is warm but not camping, gathering, or victory.
- The output can support later prompt batching without rewriting the visual system.

## Current Round

- Round: R2 five-shot trial preparation.
- R0 completed: intake cleaned; project execution files initialized.
- R1 completed so far: v2 main character anchor accepted; identity lock approved for slice generation; five transparent slice candidates generated and rejected due identity drift from v2.
- R1 completed: v2 main character anchor accepted; v2-from-anchor transparent slice set accepted.
- R1 completed: C style retest accepted as `style-anchor-c-repair-v1.png`.
- R1 completed: common style anchor board accepted as `style-anchor-board-v1.png`.
- R2 completed: S-01 generated once and accepted by user.
- R2 completed: user waived intermediate prompt review for S-10; S-10 generated once and accepted by user.
- R2 completed: S-46 generated once and accepted by user.
- R2 completed: S-47 generated once and accepted by user.
- R2 completed: S-51 generated once and accepted by user.
- R2 completed: five-shot visual trial generated and accepted by user.
- R3 character-consistency workflow test completed: `s21-v3`, `s14-v2`, and `s25-v2` generated through the Advisor / visible-reference path and accepted by user. Quality route is usable; orchestration still needs duplicate-worker prevention.

## Active Batch

Broad generation trial is paused after self-audit.

No single-shot gate is active. The five-shot visual trial is accepted. The character-consistency workflow test is also visually accepted, but broad production should not scale until the orchestration fixes below are applied.

Current broad-run issue report:

```text
slides/broad-generation-self-audit-v1.md
```

## Open Decisions

| Decision | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Character source face | Current stage does not use the real face; use a 50-year-old traveler based on the defined character system. |
| Character board size | 16:9 page, shallow gray-white background. |
| Character board scope | MVP can start with front/side/back full body plus half-body state; full version should add walking side/back and prop breakdowns. |
| Style board scope | MVP one-page A/B/C/D board; C should be marked as repaired / accepted. |
| Full shot production | Paused until broad-run orchestration is repaired: per-shot brief/prompt trace is restored, visible character shots use actual references, identity-heavy child sessions are capped at 2 slides, and one slide/version cannot launch duplicate slide agents. |

## Next Decision

Repair the orchestration rules before the next production batch:

- For this project, assign at most 2 visible-character / identity-heavy slides per child session. Keep the generic workflow default at 3 for broader/non-expensive slide work.
- Start brief/orchestration work as user-visible Codex child/session threads and record their thread ids.
- Inside a child session, start one internal SubAgent / one-shot slide worker per slide; do not create long-lived reusable slide agents.
- Add a duplicate-worker guard: one slide/version must have exactly one owning worker and one prompt/image/return target set.
- Keep the quality route from this test: `gpt-image-2` Advisor prompt/spec, active style master, active character registry, and visible reference images loaded before generation.