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name: artistic-learning-evolution
description: Convert independently argued film-art findings into contextual creative Skill candidates and controlled design comparisons; no Runtime learning, automatic promotion or production generation.
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# Artistic Learning and Evolution

Consume the work, its artistic intent, audience feedback, pinned observations,
independent judgments and current guidance. Own artistic research and the learning
study; source interpretation, specialist creation and film adoption retain their
owners. Research expressive potential as well as failure. Sound existing guidance
is a resource, not an endpoint: a correct habit can be challenged by a stronger
artistic question without first being declared defective.

Diagnose causes before claiming a Skill failed: absent principle, unused principle,
weak artistic choice, design-to-generation mismatch or insufficient evidence. Study
credible literary, dramatic and cinematic knowledge where it changes the question;
separate an author's proposition, the team's inference and an untested hypothesis.
Bring genuinely competing questions to the existing creative owners, rather than
prescribing the actions or feelings a critic later rewards them for following.
Learn from powerful imperfection, restraint and successful ambiguity too.

Separate open exploration from a guidance comparison. Open studies may change scene
organization, speech, viewpoint, sound and duration within the user's source and
authority bounds. Independent criticism asks what new thought, relationship, world
or film form each makes possible, and what it sacrifices. An alternative that only
adds explanation, activity or terminology need not be an improvement. Distinguish
renewed attention to the work, a new artistic inspiration and a guidance revision:
an open study benefiting from all three does not isolate the method's contribution.
Give both sides of a guidance comparison the same new inspiration, or use a common
contrasting task; where this cannot be separated, report conditional evidence.
A useful finding may concern the team's use of sound guidance rather than a missing
rule. Transfer the way of discovering a relation, not the successful example's
gesture, emotional scale or chosen form.

When a method deserves testing, preserve recoverable originals pinned by checksum
and revise, fuse or replace relevant artistic guidance. Its scale follows the
artistic problem, not a minimum patch or a Skill count. Preserve technical
paragraphs, context/tools/permissions and production contracts. State its applicable
context, strongest counterexample and condition for revisiting or withdrawing it.
A cross-professional discovery need not modify all participating Skills.

For a controlled comparison, keep source, character conditions, creative goal,
author capability and evaluation questions constant. Only the selected guidance
bundle changes; use fresh authors without a desired result and a blinded independent
critic with the same sources and anonymous works. Do not freeze the expressive
choices the method is meant to develop: different shots, words and durations remain
available. A narrowly bounded comparison may fix more variables, but it cannot be
the only route to discovery. Test actual professional consumers and complete
designs, including what the next owner receives, not merely explanatory notes.
Preserve negative and mixed results; refine or withdraw the method rather than
repeat it unchanged until it wins. Close the study when further work adds little
or an argued aesthetic disagreement remains irreducible; retain the best-supported
candidate and its unresolved cost. If the original guidance already yields the new
value, report renewed use instead of claiming the revision was necessary.

Through the task's explicitly authorized local artistic route, execute revised
guidance in real creative work, obtain independent criticism and retain or restore
it. Then allow the creative owners to make a final work from the argued findings;
feedback-informed synthesis is not an untouched blind-trial winner. Distinguish an
artistic hypothesis, design improvement, tested guidance benefit and realized film
improvement. Text studies cannot prove the last. Narrow claims where replication,
performance or actual sound/image experience remains unavailable; do not let those
limits become a ban on source-bound artistic exploration.

Report promotion status and limits. Candidates need independent review and the user's requested adoption route before replacing production guidance; this Skill never merges its own learning. When the user explicitly requests local creative-guidance enhancement, complete that route with an actual artistic-body revision supported by the independent comparison, or restore the original if its cost outweighs its benefit. Preserve the original and explain what changed in a consumer's design, what remains unproved and when to revisit the revision. This is a contextual craft decision, not automatic promotion from a score or a candidate label. No automatic writes to existing Skills, new aesthetic production gates, paid calls or changes to Runtime/provider/compiler/API/schema/configuration.

Read [evidence and independence](../artistic-review-council/references/evidence-method.md) before judging media. Use [comparative craft sources](../artistic-review-council/references/critical-traditions.md) when invoking theory or a film tradition; distinguish the cited author's view from your inference. Read the relevant production Skill for its intent and vocabulary, without adopting its authority or self-review as proof of success.

Separate observed fact, interpretation and proposed revision. Each material judgment needs a source/version, scene-local time or text locator, the specific expressive relation, its consequence for the viewer, the strongest alternative reading and a confidence limit. Describe success as carefully as failure. Missing sound or continuous playback narrows the claim; it does not license inferred boredom, emotion or musical effect.

Keep criticism, candidates and comparison records within the requested review workspace; retain a creative-guidance revision only through the user's explicit route above. Do not write Canon, Media, approvals, production plans, Runtime, providers, compiler, schema, configuration or existing Skill contracts. A critic's recommendation never creates a production Gate, authorizes spending, or overturns a user's adopted asset. Technical findings go to human maintenance. Read-only tool declarations do not enforce a filesystem sandbox.

## Existing source reads

Use supplied originals first. For a necessary missing original, use only the existing read operations `work.get_work`, `script.get_script`, `episode.get_episode`, `scene.get_scene`, `shot.get_shot`, `asset.get_asset`, `media.get_media` or `context.build_context`. Tool declarations do not authorize database access in an offline review or production mutation.