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name: scenario-quality-gate
description: "Use when a generated Scenario image needs a quality check or a brand-brief compliance verdict before it ships: pass/warn/fail scoring, on-brand review against a configured brief, QA gating a batch, pricing or refreshing a stored verdict, or iterating a generation until it clears the gate. Keywords: quality gate, quality check, QA, verdict, brief compliance, on-brand, brand brief, pass fail, score, review, asset_quality_gate_run."
license: MIT
---

# Scenario Quality Gate

## Overview

One tool, `asset_quality_gate_run`, scores a finished image asset and returns a `pass`/`warn`/`fail` verdict with 0 to 100 scores and per-dimension lists of `reasons` and `suggestions`: an AI-quality check always, plus brand-brief compliance when the team or project has a brief configured. Image assets only. Quality Gate is an Enterprise add-on: when it is not enabled for the team the call fails cleanly, so detect that, fall back to an `asset_analyze` review (see `scenario-asset-analysis`), and say so. Retrying never clears it.

The tool is catalog-only and write-class: get the schema with `scenario_tools_search`, then run it through `scenario_tool_execute_write` with `{name: "asset_quality_gate_run", parameters: {...}}`, scope ids inside `parameters` (the read executor rejects it by lane and names the right one). Or reconnect with `?toolsets=full`. Connection and scope: see the `scenario` skill. If a sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it (`npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill <name>`); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap.

## Quick reference: what a call costs

| Call                              | What happens                                                             | Cost                                                                       |
| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Plain call, usable verdict stored | Returns the stored verdict, `source: "stored"`                           | Free (the response carries no `creativeUnitsCost`)                         |
| Plain call, no usable verdict     | Runs a new analysis and stores the verdict, `source: "new_analysis"`     | Billed; the response carries `creativeUnitsCost` (1 CU as of this writing) |
| `rerun: true`                     | New analysis that replaces the stored verdict                            | Billed                                                                     |
| `dry_run: true`                   | Nothing runs; returns the price of a new analysis as `creativeUnitsCost` | Free                                                                       |

A plain call is a read only when a usable verdict already exists; otherwise the same call silently escalates to the billed analysis. "No usable verdict" covers both never-scored and a stored `error` result. When spend needs approval first, probe free: `dry_run: true`, or `asset_get`, whose `qualityGate` field carries the verdict and scores when one is stored (summary only; the stored `reasons` and `suggestions` come back through the tool, still free). `sensitivity` (`low`, `medium`, `high`; default is the team or project setting) shapes new analyses only and is ignored on stored reads. `rerun: true` is for after the brief or the sensitivity changed, nothing else: it re-bills and overwrites.

## Reading the verdict

The response is `source` plus `quality_gate`: `verdict`, `overallScore`, `aiQualityScore`, `briefComplianceScore`, `sensitivity`, `appliedBriefIds`, and `details`. With no brief configured the compliance dimension is absent entirely (`appliedBriefIds: []`, `overallScore` equals `aiQualityScore`); with one, `details.briefCompliance` sits beside `details.aiQuality`, each carrying a `score` and lists of `reasons` and `suggestions`, usually several of each.

## Turning the verdict into a better image

A verdict alone only sorts assets. The gate earns its cost when the feedback drives the next attempt:

- `reasons` name concrete flaws ("elongated finger anatomy on the left hand", "background gradient off the brief's palette"). Use them to pick the fix path per flaw: a local defect on an otherwise approved image is a masked inpainting pass (`scenario-image`); a global one is a regeneration.
- `suggestions` are written as edit instructions, often worded for manual retouching. Apply all that fit, not just the first: translate them into the next `model_run` prompt or parameters, or into the edit instruction.
- A regenerated image is a new asset, so a plain call scores it. `rerun` is never part of the loop. It may even come back pre-scored for free: teams with auto-detect enabled (`qualityGateAutoDetect: true` on their `teams_list` row) score new generations automatically.
- When a round repeats the same flaw classes at an unmoved score, rewording will not fix them: switch models (`recommend` again) or repair the flaw with a masked edit before spending another round.
- Fix the exit bar and a round cap up front: `verdict: "pass"` by default, or a score target the user names (`overallScore` at or above 90, say; the named bar then outranks a bare `pass`), and three rounds unless told otherwise, since every round bills a generation plus an analysis. At the cap, or when a round stops moving the scores, stop: report the best asset with its remaining flaws and ask before spending more rounds; unattended, deliver that best asset and flag the miss.

## Worked example: iterate a hero prop to pass

1. Generate per `scenario-image`: `model_run`, `jobs_wait`, collect the asset id.
2. `scenario_tools_search` with `query="quality gate"` once for the schema, then `dry_run: true` on the first asset to surface the per-analysis price.
3. Score: `scenario_tool_execute_write` with `{name: "asset_quality_gate_run", parameters: {asset_id, team_id, project_id}}`. It returns `source: "new_analysis"` and a `quality_gate` carrying `verdict: "warn"`, `briefComplianceScore: 58`, and `details.briefCompliance.suggestions` asking for the logo at the top left and a flatter background.
4. Fold both suggestions into the prompt, regenerate, and score the new asset with a plain call (no `rerun`).
5. `verdict: "pass"`: deliver, and file it (collections and tags per `scenario-asset-analysis`). Later reads of any scored asset are free stored reads.
6. The brief changes next sprint: only then `rerun: true` on the assets that must be re-judged.

## Common mistakes

- Treating a plain call as a free read: without a usable stored verdict it silently runs and bills the analysis. Probe with `dry_run` or `asset_get` first when the spend matters.
- Passing `rerun: true` out of habit: it re-bills verdicts that were free to read. Its one job is refreshing after the brief or sensitivity changed.
- Expecting `briefComplianceScore` with no brief configured: `quality_gate` carries it and `details.briefCompliance` only when `appliedBriefIds` is non-empty.
- Applying one suggestion and rescoring each time: the lists usually carry several fixes, and one regeneration can absorb them all.
- Running it through `scenario_tool_execute_read`: write-class, rejected by lane.
- Scoring a video, 3D, or audio asset: image assets only.
- Assuming a fresh upload has no verdict: uploads deduplicate by content, so identical bytes return the same long-lived asset id whatever the filename, and a re-upload of a file the team scored before carries its stored verdict.
- Setting `sensitivity` on a call that returns a stored verdict: it applies to new analyses only; stricter scoring of an already-scored asset requires `rerun: true`.
- Retrying the entitlement failure: Quality Gate is an Enterprise add-on. Degrade to the `asset_analyze` review in `scenario-asset-analysis` and tell the user why.