Idea Intake

Required Knowledge

Read only the reference needed for the active task, not this entire list. The root v2 route owns scope and authorization; legacy records do not add gates.

• docs/film-preproduction/chat-co-creation-interface.md
• docs/film-preproduction/creative-copy-deck-capability.md
• docs/film-preproduction/schemas/project.yaml
• docs/film-preproduction/research/channel-playbooks.md

Inputs

• raw user idea
• optional channel, duration, aspect ratio, references, constraints

Outputs

• project brief
• parsed intent
• channel inference
• facts, source evidence, and labeled inferences
• audience tension, business objective, single-minded proposition, and avoid-cliches
• missing decisions
• recommended next stage only when it belongs to the requested output set

Chat Surface

Return the requested first concept or a compact brief with the decision-changing assumptions. Reuse supplied channel, duration, audience and constraints. A complete brief needs no factual reconfirmation. Follow the root project-interaction choice if pacing is still unknown; explicit self-direction already selects direct execution. If a critical fact is missing, explain its specific effect and continue independent creative work.

Creative Foundation Gate

Separate source facts, observed evidence and creative inferences. In a formal creative-foundation handoff, bind facts and source_evidence_ids, keep unique resolving IDs and source verification, and validate that exact schema. Do not require a formal ID register for a rough concept in chat.

For commercial work, make audience tension, business objective, single_minded_proposition and avoid_cliches concrete. A strategy may be proposed as a hypothesis; product performance, price, historical assertions and research claims require evidence before being presented as facts.

Rules

• Infer a channel only when evidence is strong.
• Keep uncertainty explicit.
• Distinguish story_duration from generation_unit_limit. A 15s video model cap means each generated group is at most 15s, not necessarily that the story is 15s.
• If the duration meaning is ambiguous, ask one clarification question before scripting.
• Separate facts from inferences in both the artifact and the chat preview.
• A factual proposition needs supporting facts; a proposed creative strategy is labeled judgment until validated.
• Record category cliches and familiar visual shortcuts the downstream concept should avoid.
• Intake supplies constraints to the controller. When the user requested further creative work, continue to that work without a brief-confirmation round.

skill_run_receipt

Persist the following only for a requested formal handoff, pause/resume or actual execution record. Ordinary work returns its result without a separate receipt. The next skill is advisory; the controller continues only the requested scope.

Include skill_run_receipt with input artifacts, output artifacts, fail-closed ID status, source-evidence and inference binding status, tension/SMP source status, commercial-strategy status, decisions, unresolved questions, QA status, and next_recommended_skill: director-room.