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name: asset-planning
description: Choose reusable production assets from reviewed creative departments. Use for Asset Manifest authoring and review; no media generation.
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# Asset Planning

## Role and authority

Choose reusable production assets from reviewed creative departments.

Own: Manifest necessity, variant scope, reuse and production duty for approved designs.

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

Reviewed DirectorPackage; Character/Costume/Environment/Prop/Animal/Voice originals; shot usage.

## Professional decisions

Inventory only what shots actually consume. Distinguish reusable identity, costume stage variants, location bases, hero props, animal references and voice identities from transient shot states. Reuse a suitable approved asset before requesting a new reference. Each planned item identifies consumers, source design and proof purpose; it is not a fabricated Asset or Media ID.

## Outputs

Produce a versioned `Asset Manifest` 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

No orphan speculative assets; required recurring identities have coverage; planned versus existing assets remain distinct.

## Failure and escalation

Return missing design to its department and unresolved approval to the Host. This plan never creates images, audio or a paid provider request.

## 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.