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22 added, 87 removed. Audit A to A.
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name: production-design
- description: Design reusable character casting, faction costume hierarchy, sets and visual motifs from story intent. Use for visual suitability and screen authority before asset resolution; does not produce media or select providers.
+ description: Align independently authored visual departments under Director Vision; use for coherence review and visual conflict routing, not character, costume or environment authorship.
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- # Production Design & Casting
+ # Production Design Supervisor
- Decide what the world and characters should look like, using dramatic role, age,
- experience, class, story phase and audience readability. Asset resolution owns
- finding, creating or reusing the identity references that realize that design.
- Identity continuity alone never proves casting suitability. For historical screen
- drama, combine historical plausibility, modern cinematic screen appeal, character
- personality and leading-character visual authority. History constrains facts and
- period semantics; it does not require museum-reenactment plainness. Reasonable face
- and body idealization is a design choice. Distinguish role-specific attractiveness
- from idol styling or cosmetic perfection; do not make every role beautiful, every
- antagonist ugly, or every hero muscular. Preserve explicitly intended ordinary or
- unconventional casting. Never copy a real star or use fantasy armor to supply the
- authority missing from the person.
+ ## Role and authority
- For staged face, relative-scale and performance proof searches, use
- [performance-casting](../performance-casting/SKILL.md); this skill retains stable
- visual design authority. A neutral one-person portrait cannot establish a relative
- stature claim.
+ Own visual coherence review, alignment priorities and conflict recommendations. Character Art and Environment Art are peer originals; neither is an internal paragraph of this skill.
- Read the [design and handoff contract](references/design.md) when authoring a
- revision. Consume approved story, existing visual identity, actual media review
- and user feedback. When historical accuracy matters, inherit HistoricalCanonPolicy
- and resolve consequential gaps with historical-research; mark design choices and
- optional hypotheses separately from documented appearance. Do not convert sparse
- evidence into a claimed exact portrait or introduce consequential plot facts.
+ Read [professional department architecture](../../docs/professional-departments.md) for owned Bible records, dependency gates and Host handoff.
- Use only these four internal modes, selecting the ones the request needs:
+ ## Inputs and dependencies
- - **Character / Casting Design:** CharacterVisualSpec and VisualAuthority; identify
- silhouette, body/face suitability, posture, economical movement, costume and
- spatial priority. A core first appearance needs readable action/attitude and a
- FirstAppearanceContract. Captions label identity; they cannot supply authority.
- - **Costume / Faction Design:** FactionVisualSystem combines shared visual grammar
- with rank/role differences in construction, materials, wear and silhouette.
- Repeated identical costumes with different faces require revision. Distinguish
- factions through supported differences, not invented uniform regulations.
- - **Location / Set Design:** For reusable environments, author one LocationDesign
- per independently usable place, then reference it from Scene layouts with
- bounded local state changes. Follow [location and character evidence](../../docs/location-character-design.md).
- The legacy LocationDesignSpec remains valid for existing inline briefs; it does
- not replace a requested Environment Design Bible. A route may reference several
- distinct places in order; atmosphere adjectives are not terrain or layout.
- - **Prop / Visual Motif Design:** VisualMotifSpec names a recurrent object or
- material, its changing narrative meaning and the limit against decoration.
+ Director Vision; historical boundary; current Character Art, Costume, Look, Environment Art, Set Dressing, Prop, Animal and Color outputs. Functional Environment and Layout constrain feasibility.
- Keep transient damage, dirt, wetness, fatigue and held objects in Scene/Shot
- CharacterState. Stable design must not absorb one shot's condition. Specify only
- fields that distinguish this role; supporting characters need no exhaustive face
- inventory. Stable traits need not be photogenic; authority can be quiet or hidden
- when a declared story purpose warrants concealment.
+ ## Professional decisions
- When historical character reconciliation is requested, attach CharacterEvidence
- to CharacterVisualSpec: distinguish identity evidence from the evidence placing
- that person in each Scene, and delimit reconstructed behavior. Never infer an
- identity match from a name. Assess documented scene actors for clarity and dramatic
- usefulness without a character-count target; return FICTIONAL_PROXY_OVERLOAD as a
- Director review note, not a reason to erase invented people.
+ Compare silhouette and scale hierarchy, material richness, era coherence, character/world contrast, wear, density and color intention across the same film. Judge whether a strong element steals another department’s intended attention. Protect deliberate ordinary or unconventional people rather than homogenizing them into attractive heroes. Route a mismatch with an observable requirement and a scoped revision request; compare the revised original on return. Preserve unresolved work rather than completing it yourself.
- Review actual evidence with PASS/PARTIAL/FAIL and reasons: identity, main-character
- first-glance importance, silhouette/body/face, posture, costume/blocking/camera
- and surrounding reaction privilege, faction hierarchy/contrast, place specificity,
- prop function, storytelling, modern styling, fantasy contamination and evidence
- fidelity. Keep unobserved image quality UNKNOWN. No beauty or hero numeric scores.
- Scene chooses how a person enters; this skill designs visual importance; shot-design
- chooses the concrete view. Do not author camera execution or provider prompts here.
+ ## Outputs
- For stable, reusable designs only, search existing Asset semantic keys before
- creating a text-only OTHER Creative Asset. Use existing create/get/search and
- `creative_assets.remember`; no dummy Media, new table or reference image is needed.
- Preserve candidate status and prior revisions. A new casting proposal cannot
- replace current Character referenceMediaIds or become approved without the user's
- casting decision. Keep shot-specific proposals as working artifacts.
+ A Production Design Alignment / Production Design Bible containing department refs, alignment findings, reasoned dispositions and repair owners. Its content is review, never a copied set of visual originals.
- Handoff a fingerprinted design and its historical policy to asset-resolution,
- shot-design or cinematic-direction; they may apply state and coverage but may not
- rewrite stable traits. This skill neither selects models, generates media, writes
- provider parameters, revises screenplay peaks nor performs an edit. Complete with
- reviewed design, explicit unknowns, selected persistence scope and a downstream
- handoff; image validation remains a separately authorized production task.
+ ## Forbidden authority
- For missing supplied context, use `work.get_work`, `script.get_script`,
- `episode.get_episode`, `scene.get_scene` or `shot.get_shot` by known identity;
- use `context.build_context` only for unresolved context. Discover stable designs
- with `asset.list_assets` / `asset.search_assets` and inspect `asset.get_asset`
- and `media.get_media`. Verify consequential evidence with `research.search_sources`
- and `research.verify_claim`. After a complete reusable candidate exists,
- `asset.create_asset` is the first write; `asset.save_asset` is only for an explicit
- revision of an existing design, never a routine second write after creation.
+ Do not author face anatomy, armor, tents, props, lighting positions, camera implementation or color palettes. Do not replace an approved design, create reference Media, select a provider or collapse all Bibles into this report.
- For a sequence, contribute source-pinned Bible entries and usable geography to the
- [sequence package](../../docs/sequence-production-contract.md). Keep each declared
- asset interaction test proportional to actual coverage needs; a motif description
- does not by itself establish a prop's grip, scale, contact or continuity state.
+ ## Quality gates
- For formal sequence production, freeze approved visual duties with typed ProductionDesignFreeze and CinematicStylizationPolicy in the [sequence contract](../../docs/sequence-production-contract.md#production-design-freeze-and-executable-closure). Candidate suitability never implies user casting approval; keep missing visual approvals separate from blocking-design readiness.
+ All participating originals are current and attributed; findings distinguish text design coherence from unobserved image quality. Historical constraints, user approvals and continuity remain independent gates.
- For parallel live-action/CG design, read [visual routes](references/visual-routes.md). Keep route-specific proposals and references separate from existing approved design.
+ ## Failure and escalation
- ## Film and scene preproduction
+ Missing design returns to its named department. Cross-department conflict returns to Director with choices and consequences; approval never grants this supervisor authority to rewrite either original.
- For full preproduction, use [film design, color script, scene packets and costume continuity](references/preproduction.md). Visual development stays in this skill. Consume screenplay readiness before finalization; use route-aware Historical Cinematic Stylization without changing Canon or implying Lookdev approval.
+ For legacy contracts read [compatibility and preproduction](references/preproduction.md). Existing ProductionDesignFreeze, asset identity and evidence constraints remain valid; old composite schemas are read-compatible inputs, not the new authoring ownership map.
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+ ## 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.