# Character Consistency Test

## Status

- Task id: `2026-06-24-character-consistency`
- Worker profile: `video-slide-production`
- Running mode: `prompt and generate`
- Status: test complete; `s21-v3`, `s14-v2`, and `s25-v2` accepted by user; continuation mechanism has a duplicate `Agent S-14` defect to fix before scaling
- Child session reuse test: reset; start a new child session
- Deprecated child session id: `019ef77d-552b-7343-abe4-88921b35d7ea` (do not reuse)
- Session-02 child-session id: `019ef7ca-413a-7662-9633-7fb126b7ef35`
- Artifact policy: append-only next slide version; overwrite disabled by default
- Session-02 resolved version: `s21-v2` (runtime fallback; no prompt/image)
- Session-03 resolved version: `s21-v3`
- Thread-level child test: `session-03`
- Session-03 child thread id: `019ef7d2-1a7f-7a90-8c04-0098239dfe0f`
- Session-03 slide-agent thread id: `019ef7d6-3ff6-7213-b68c-fd646e39f1d2`
- Session-03 continuation recorded `Agent S-14`: `019ef803-95d7-7411-8d3c-c7f2f68a32e7`
- Session-03 duplicate `Agent S-14` observed by parent: `019ef803-328a-7e40-a0b0-0333c6b5fc6c`
- Session-03 continuation `Agent S-25`: `019ef803-e757-7041-8f4a-fc9dfce23bbd`

## User Instruction

Run the character-consistency workflow as a process and identity-consistency test.

Earlier `s05` work exposed two workflow problems:

```text
1. The child session did not start the slide-agent itself.
2. `s05-v1-image.png` was overwritten even though a broad-run candidate already existed.
```

The reset rule for the next run is:

- do not reuse child session `019ef77d-552b-7343-abe4-88921b35d7ea`;
- start a new child session;
- require the new child session to start the single-slide `S-21` agent itself;
- use a new slide artifact version resolved from existing `slides/s21/s21-v*-*` files;
- do not overwrite existing slide artifacts;
- explicitly disable review for this `S-21` test so the workflow can verify that no review file is created when review is disabled.

## Slide Scope

Completed previous test:

```text
s05
```

Authorized next:

```text
s21
```

Planned later, only after user confirms `s21`:

```text
s14
s25
```

## Child Session Split

```text
session-01: historical previous attempt; do not reuse
session-02: s21 fallback evidence only; no prompt/image
session-03: s21 accepted -> s14/s25 accepted; duplicate S-14 worker defect recorded
```

Current `session-03` continuation generated `s14-v2` and `s25-v2` after user accepted `s21-v3-image.png`; user then accepted both images and closed the test. The mechanism result is not a clean pass because two S-14 workers were created for one slide/version.

Continuation rule:

- use the same child thread `019ef7d2-1a7f-7a90-8c04-0098239dfe0f`;
- child thread must start two separate one-shot slide workers: `Agent S-14` and `Agent S-25`;
- do not reuse or continue `Agent S-21`;
- each worker handles exactly one slide;
- each slide resolves the next unused version by scanning existing files;
- expected next versions from current scan are `s14-v2` and `s25-v2`;
- do not overwrite existing broad-run `v1` images.

Session id record:

```text
session-01 child session agent id: 019ef77d-552b-7343-abe4-88921b35d7ea (deprecated / do not reuse)
session-02 child session agent id: 019ef7ca-413a-7662-9633-7fb126b7ef35
session-03 child thread id: 019ef7d2-1a7f-7a90-8c04-0098239dfe0f
session-03 Agent S-21 thread id: 019ef7d6-3ff6-7213-b68c-fd646e39f1d2
session-03 recorded Agent S-14 thread id: 019ef803-95d7-7411-8d3c-c7f2f68a32e7
session-03 duplicate Agent S-14 thread id observed by parent: 019ef803-328a-7e40-a0b0-0333c6b5fc6c
session-03 Agent S-25 thread id: 019ef803-e757-7041-8f4a-fc9dfce23bbd
```

Continuation result:

- `s14-v2-prompt.md`, `s14-v2-image.png`, and `s14-v2-slide-agent-return.md` exist; no `s14-v2-review.md` exists.
- `s25-v2-prompt.md`, `s25-v2-image.png`, and `s25-v2-slide-agent-return.md` exist; no `s25-v2-review.md` exists.
- `s14` prompt evidence records `gpt-image-2` Advisor / host-native mode, visible side/front character refs, and style module `B | 高位观察`.
- `s25` prompt evidence records `gpt-image-2` Advisor / host-native mode, visible side/front/body refs, and style module `A | 清晨泥泞旷野` adapted for dust/detail.
- User accepted both `s14-v2-image.png` and `s25-v2-image.png`.
- Defect: child handoff records only `Agent S-14` `019ef803-95d7-7411-8d3c-c7f2f68a32e7`, but parent thread inspection also found duplicate `Agent S-14` `019ef803-328a-7e40-a0b0-0333c6b5fc6c`; the S-14 return/image source path records the duplicate thread folder. Treat step 2 as generated-with-defect, not as workflow pass.

## Shared Context

- `AGENTS.md`
- `VIDEO_WORKBENCH.md`
- `docs/workflows/slide-task-orchestration.md`
- `docs/workflows/slide-task-templates.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/project.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/execution-plan.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/visual-system/visual-system.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/visual-system/style/style-prompt-master.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/visual-system/characters/character-reference-registry.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/intake/阶段五-人物一致性单镜.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/slides.md`
- `projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/broad-generation-self-audit-v1.md`
- `investigations/2026-06-24-s14-reference-capable-generation/reviews/summary-and-rule-implications.md`

## Visual-System Usage

- Style continuity must use `visual-system/style/style-prompt-master.md`.
- Character continuity must use `visual-system/characters/character-reference-registry.md`.
- Reference-capable generation must use the validated host built-in reference-by-visible-context path:
  - write the prompt/spec through the `gpt-image-2` Skill Advisor workflow;
  - load the real reference image into the conversation context before generation;
  - call host `image_gen` with the loaded image assigned a role such as `Image 1`;
  - record the input path, output path, and reference-path caveat in the review or return.

## Rules

- Do not invoke CCPE.
- Do not ask GPT V2 for final prompts.
- Do not use Minimax MCP or other external review services.
- Do not treat old broad-run images as accepted finals.
- Do not generate visible-character identity shots from text-only prompts.
- Do not use archived character or style references unless explicitly reopened.
- Each slide agent handles exactly one slide.
- Child sessions and slide agents run sequentially.
- One slide/version must have exactly one owning slide-agent. A child session must not create two workers with the same packet and same output targets; prompt/image/return ownership must stay with the same worker id.
- Project-specific allocation override for identity-heavy character-consistency work: assign at most 2 visible-character slides per child session. Keep the generic docs default at maximum 3 slides per child session for non-expensive/general slide work.
- Child session carrier rule: brief/orchestration child sessions should be Codex child/session threads visible to the user and recorded by thread id. Slide agents inside those child sessions should be internal SubAgent / one-shot workers, not long-lived reusable child sessions.
- Main session records the new child session id so later slides can be sent to the same child session after user approval.
- Resolve the slide artifact version before each slide run by scanning existing `slides/sNN/sNN-v*-*` files.
- Do not overwrite existing slide artifacts. If any planned target file already exists, stop and report an artifact collision.
- Do not backfill missing prompt or brief files for old broad-run images as if they were original generation inputs.
- For the next `s21` test, review is explicitly disabled. A `s21-vN-review.md` file should not be produced unless the task plan is changed.

## Expected Outputs

Task records:

```text
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/task-plan.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/task-log.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-02/child-session-plan.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-02/child-session-handoff.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-02/packets/s21-vN-slide-agent-packet.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-02/returns/s21-vN-slide-agent-return.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-03/child-session-plan.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-03/child-session-handoff.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-03/packets/s21-v3-slide-agent-packet.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/tasks/2026-06-24-character-consistency/session-03/returns/s21-v3-slide-agent-return.md
```

Slide records:

```text
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/s21/s21-vN-brief.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/s21/s21-vN-prompt.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/s21/s21-vN-image.png
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/s21/s21-v3-brief.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/s21/s21-v3-prompt.md
projects/2026-06-23-在路上/slides/s21/s21-v3-image.png
```

## User Review / Sampling Plan

After `s21` generation, stop and report:

- new child session id;
- `S-21` slide-agent id;
- files written;
- resolved output version;
- whether the child session started `Agent S-21` itself;
- whether review was correctly suppressed;
- whether the prompt used `gpt-image-2` Advisor, active character reference, and the D style module;
- whether the same child session should receive `s14` and `s25` next.

For the `s14` / `s25` continuation, report:

- whether the existing child thread continued work;
- `Agent S-14` and `Agent S-25` thread ids;
- whether the two new agents are separate from `Agent S-21`;
- files written for `s14-v2` and `s25-v2`;
- whether prompts used `gpt-image-2` Advisor and active character/style references;
- whether review files were or were not produced, matching the continuation packet rule;
- whether generation completed for both slides.

This reporting gate is closed for `session-03`: both images were accepted by the user, review files were correctly absent, and the remaining work is workflow repair before the next batch.

## Stop Conditions

- Required reference image cannot be loaded into the conversation context.
- `gpt-image-2` mode check no longer returns a host/advisor path.
- Host image generation cannot be called.
- Generated image cannot be copied into the project slide folder.
- Any planned output path already exists and overwrite is not explicitly authorized.
- The result clearly fails the side/back dynamic character-continuity purpose.