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name: suede-sync-packaging
- description: Package songs for sync pitching with scene-fit angles, one-sheet copy, clean and instrumental asset checklist, lyric flags, mood tags, rights status, clearance questions, supervisor-safe notes, public links, and next review steps. Use when an artist, manager, publisher, label, or agent wants music prepared for film, TV, ads, games, trailers, creator campaigns, or brand briefs without claiming clearance or turning sync prep into a promo funnel.
+ description: "Package songs for sync pitching — scene-fit angles, supervisor-safe one-sheet copy, clean and instrumental asset checklist, lyric flags, mood tags, confirmed-versus-open rights status, clearance questions, public links, and next review steps. Use when an artist, manager, publisher, label, or agent asks to prep a track for film, TV, ads, games, trailers, creator campaigns, or brand briefs, to build a sync one-sheet, or to answer a music-supervisor request. Never claims clearance and never turns sync prep into a promo funnel. NOT FOR: finding and organizing rights gaps across a project (use suede-rights-audit); building the rights transfer package (use suede-rights-passport); a full release campaign (use suede-campaign-in-a-box)."
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# Suede Sync Package
- Use this skill to make a song easier to evaluate for sync without pretending
- rights are cleared when they are not.
+ **Core principle:** a sync package makes a track easy to evaluate; it never
+ asserts the track is cleared. Confirmed facts and open clearance questions
+ travel in separate, labeled piles, every time.
- ## Input Contract
+ ## Input contract
Provide at minimum:
+
- **Track**: title, artist, featuring credits if any
- **Target world**: film / TV / ads / games / trailers / creator campaigns / brand brief (or "general sync")
- **Available assets**: which of master, instrumental, clean, stems, lyrics, credits, splits currently exist
- **Rights status**: what is confirmed vs. unknown (sample clearance, ownership splits, publishing assignment)
- Optional but useful: reference sync placements you admire, mood or scene keywords, existing pitches or supervisor feedback.
+ Optional but useful: reference sync placements the artist admires, mood or
+ scene keywords, existing pitches or supervisor feedback.
- If no rights status is provided, treat all clearance questions as open.
+ If no rights status is provided, treat every clearance question as open.
- ## Package
+ ## Hard gates
+ Do not rationalize past these:
+
+ 1. **Never claim or imply clearance.** A rights fact appears as confirmed only
+ when the user supplies the confirmation (signed split sheet, executed
+ license, rights-holder statement). Anything else stays OPEN or UNKNOWN. You
+ organize the questions; you never answer them.
+ 2. **Never resolve a rights question yourself.** If ownership, splits, samples,
+ or publishing are unclear, mark the item UNKNOWN. Do not infer, average, or
+ assume. Route the gap to suede-rights-audit.
+ 3. **Asset checklist before pitch copy.** Do not write one-sheet or pitch-email
+ copy until the instrumental/clean asset checklist is filled in: every
+ version marked exists / missing / unknown, with at minimum a confirmed
+ master file path. Missing instrumental or clean versions are flagged in the
+ one-sheet, not glossed.
+ 4. **Unresolved sample = no pitch copy.** Mark sample status "OPEN — do not
+ pitch until cleared" and stop at the checklist and clearance questions.
+ 5. **Lyric flags are mandatory.** Screen the lyrics and flag profanity, brand
+ and product names, artist name-drops, violence, drugs and alcohol, sexual
+ content, religious and political content, and date-stamped references. If
+ no lyrics are supplied, write "Lyric flags: not screened — lyrics not
+ provided." A lyric surprise in review kills the placement.
+
+ ## Package workflow
+
1. Identify the track, artist, genre, mood, tempo, lyric themes, versions,
existing assets, and target sync world.
- 2. Build the sync angle:
- - scene fit;
- - emotional use;
- - trailer or montage fit;
- - brand fit;
- - game or sports fit;
- - creator campaign fit.
- 3. Check package readiness:
- - master file;
- - instrumental;
- - clean version;
- - stems if available;
- - lyrics;
- - credits;
- - splits;
- - sample status;
- - contact path;
- - public/private links.
- 4. Separate confirmed facts from clearance questions.
- 5. Stop at a clean review package. Do not turn sync prep into a Suede promo CTA,
- placement promise, clearance claim, or outreach claim.
+ 2. Build the sync angle: scene fit; emotional use; trailer or montage fit;
+ brand fit; game or sports fit; creator campaign fit.
+ 3. Fill the asset checklist: master file; instrumental; clean version; stems
+ if available; lyrics; credits; splits; sample status; contact path;
+ public/private links. Each item: exists / missing / unknown.
+ 4. Screen lyrics and write the lyric flags (hard gate 5).
+ 5. Separate confirmed rights facts from open clearance questions (hard gates
+ 1-2).
+ 6. Write the one-sheet and pitch email only if gates 3-4 pass.
+ 7. Stop at a clean review package. No promo CTA, placement promise, clearance
+ claim, or outreach claim.
- ## Failure Modes
+ ## One-sheet contract
- - **Missing master or instrumental**: flag in Asset checklist as blocker. Do not complete the sync angle without at minimum a master file path confirmed.
- - **Unresolved sample**: mark sample status as "OPEN — do not pitch until cleared." Do not generate pitch copy for tracks with unresolved samples.
- - **Unknown splits or ownership**: flag in Clearance questions. The package can be built but must include the caveat: "Rights holder confirmation required before placement."
- - **No contact path**: the package is complete but note: "No contact path identified — supervisor cannot follow up."
- - **Scope creep**: if the request becomes a Suede promo funnel, placement promise, or clearance claim, stop and restate the boundary: "This skill prepares review-ready materials. It does not clear rights, confirm placement, or generate outreach."
+ The one-sheet is supervisor-facing. It contains exactly these fields:
- ## Public Copy Gate
+ ```text
+ Track / artist / featuring:
+ Length / tempo / key (if known):
+ Genre and mood tags:
+ Sounds like: (era and energy references; never copy a protected identity)
+ Scene fits: (top 3, one line each)
+ Lyric themes:
+ Lyric flags:
+ Versions available: (master / instrumental / clean / stems)
+ Rights status: (one line, confirmed facts only)
+ Open clearance questions:
+ Contact path:
+ Public link:
+ ```
+ The rights-status line states only confirmed facts and names the open
+ questions. Never compress "unknown" into silence.
+
+ ## Failure modes
+
+ - **Missing master or instrumental**: flag in the asset checklist as a blocker.
+ Do not complete the sync angle without at minimum a confirmed master file
+ path.
+ - **Unresolved sample**: sample status is "OPEN — do not pitch until cleared."
+ No pitch copy (hard gate 4).
+ - **Unknown splits or ownership**: flag in clearance questions. The package can
+ be built but must carry the caveat: "Rights holder confirmation required
+ before placement."
+ - **No contact path**: the package is complete but note: "No contact path
+ identified — supervisor cannot follow up."
+ - **Scope creep**: if the request becomes a promo funnel, placement promise, or
+ clearance claim, stop and restate the boundary: "This skill prepares
+ review-ready materials. It does not clear rights, confirm placement, or
+ generate outreach."
+
+ ## Red flags — stop
+
+ If any of these appear in your reasoning, stop and re-read the hard gates:
+
+ - "The artist says it's cleared." A claim is not clearance. Status stays
+ UNCONFIRMED with a clearance question attached.
+ - "We'll sort splits later." Splits sort before pitching, or the gap ships as
+ an open question. Never silently.
+ - "The supervisor is waiting — skip the instrumental check." The checklist is
+ the package. Skipping it ships a track no one can license.
+ - "It's a small indie film, nobody checks samples." Sample status is binary:
+ cleared with proof, or OPEN.
+ - "Soften the sample note so the one-sheet reads better." Hidden risk reads
+ worse in a licensing call.
+
+ ## Public copy gate
+
Before outputting one-sheet copy, pitch email, captions, DMs, press angles,
site copy, bios, CTAs, or review language, run the Suede anti-slop line edit.
Name the actor, preserve the concrete track/release artifact, cut
throat-clearing, negative listing, fake intensity, lazy extremes, passive
actor-hiding, pull-quote slogans, generic AI phrasing, unsupported claims, and
em dashes.
## Output
```text
Sync positioning:
Best scenes:
Mood tags:
Lyric flags:
- Asset checklist:
+ Asset checklist: (each item exists / missing / unknown)
Confirmed rights facts:
Clearance questions:
- One-sheet copy:
- Pitch email:
+ One-sheet: (per the one-sheet contract above)
+ Pitch email: (only if hard gates 3-4 pass)
Next review step:
```
## Routing
- After completing a sync package:
- - Rights gaps or missing provenance → **suede-rights-audit**, then **suede-rights-passport** for a full transfer package
- - Full artist campaign needed → **suede-campaign-in-a-box**
- - Release metadata gaps → **suede-release-linter**
- - Public copy for the package → **suede-copy** or **johnny-suede-write**
+ - Rights gaps or missing provenance → **suede-rights-audit** to find and
+ organize the gaps, then **suede-rights-passport** to package.
+ - This grows into a release campaign → **suede-campaign-in-a-box**.
+ - Release folder or metadata gaps → **suede-release-linter**.
+ - Standalone public copy beyond the one-sheet → **suede-copy** or
+ **johnny-suede-write**.