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name: suede-sync-packaging
description: "Prep songs for sync pitches: scene angles, one-sheets, clean and instrumental assets, lyric flags, mood tags, rights questions, and links."
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# Suede Sync Package

**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

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 the artist admires, mood or
scene keywords, existing pitches or supervisor feedback.

If no rights status is provided, treat every clearance question as open.

## 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. 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.

## One-sheet contract

The one-sheet is supervisor-facing. It contains exactly these fields:

```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: (each item exists / missing / unknown)
Confirmed rights facts:
Clearance questions:
One-sheet: (per the one-sheet contract above)
Pitch email: (only if hard gates 3-4 pass)
Next review step:
```

## Routing

- 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**.