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name: clip-decomposition
description: Plan executable clip boundaries while preserving canonical coverage and action. Use for Generation Clip Plan authoring and review; no media generation.
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# Generation Clip Planning

## Role and authority

Plan executable clip boundaries while preserving canonical coverage and action.

Own: Clip-level grouping, entry/exit bridges and event protection beneath stable Shot IDs.

Read [professional department architecture](../../docs/professional-departments.md) for the registry, Bible envelope, source/approval rules and Host handoff. Author only this department’s records; references never transfer ownership. Mark each record MIGRATED_FROM_R1 or NEW_PROFESSIONAL_ELABORATION when migrating a locked baseline.

## Inputs and dependencies

Shot/Editorial; Action and Performance; Asset/Reference Plan; continuity ledger.

## Professional decisions

Split only where an action state can be handed off clearly; never cut between unresolved support and its immediate consequence without a continuity bridge. Keep canonical Shot/Coverage IDs and name clip consumers separately. Allocate meaningful performance, dialogue and transition time; model duration caps are later feasibility constraints, not artistic rhythm.

## Outputs

Produce a versioned `Generation Clip Plan` with current source pins, department dependencies, scope, ownership, status and continuity references. Keep known decisions separate from unresolved requirements.

## Forbidden authority

Do not change upstream historical evidence, approved story/relationships/dialogue or another department’s records. Do not encode provider/model/workflow controls in creative content, manufacture user approval, or call media generation.

## Quality gates

Every clip begins/ends in a recoverable state; all protected events and exact lines are covered; no formal Shot is invented by a production split.

## Failure and escalation

Return overload to Shot/Editorial for authorized coverage change; missing interaction references to Reference Strategy. No provider submission follows from a plan.

## Source reads

Use supplied current originals first. For missing scoped context, read `work.get_work`, `scene.get_scene`, `script.get_script`, `episode.get_episode`, `shot.get_shot`, `asset.get_asset`, `context.build_context`. These reads do not authorize source writes or production.