Plotloom Asset Selection

Plotloom Asset Selection

When to Use

Use when image or video candidates exist under candidates/ and the next step is accept, reroll, prompt revision, or deterministic selected-copy.

Inputs

• Prompt intent and rerun notes.
• Candidate image/video path; process video one candidate at a time.
• Selection rubric and optional review note template.

Outputs

• Candidate review note or recommendation.
• If accepted, deterministic helper copies candidate to selected.*.

Read These Resources When...

• Read references/selection-rubric.md before evaluating candidates.
• Use templates/review-note.md for review output.
• Use plotloom --repo <repo> select <candidate> only after accept decision.

Workflow

1. Evaluate candidate against intent, character consistency, visual continuity, short-drama clarity, hook strength, ending handoff, and artifacts. 2. Choose one decision: accept, reroll, revise_prompt, or ask_user. 3. Ask the user when quality is ambiguous or trade-offs are subjective. 4. If accepted, run or instruct plotloom --repo <repo> select <candidate> to copy the candidate to selected.*. 5. Preserve candidates/vNNN.*. 6. If replacing a selected file, back up old selected as selected-prev-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-ffffff.*. 7. For video, process one candidate at a time.

Decision Rules

• accept: intent matches, identity stable, artifacts minor, ending frame works.
• reroll: prompt is right, but sample has random artifacts or weak rendering.
• revise_prompt: candidate repeatedly misses action, character, reference use, camera, or ending frame.
• ask_user: trade-off is taste-based or multiple versions are plausible.

Stop Conditions

Stop after selected copy or rerun recommendation. Do not delete candidates, generate new media, or silently choose ambiguous video.

Next Skill Handoff

After all required clips have selected.mp4, hand off to plotloom-stitch-deliver.

Failure Modes

• Candidate missing: report missing path.
• Ambiguous quality: ask user rather than choosing silently.
• Prompt mismatch: recommend revise prompt, not just reroll.
• Existing selected: use backup semantics before replacement.

Selection Rubric

Decision Output

Use one decision:

• accept
• reroll
• revise_prompt
• ask_user

Scoring Dimensions

Intent Match

Does the candidate perform the source prompt's action and emotional beat?

Character Consistency

Does it preserve face, age, hairstyle, outfit, proportions, palette, and signature props from character-grid.png or reference sheet?

Visual Continuity

Does motion, lighting, scene, prop placement, and ending frame remain coherent with surrounding clips?

Short-Drama Clarity

Can the viewer understand conflict and status reversal quickly?

Hook Strength

Does the opening or final moment create a reason to continue?

Artifact Severity

Check hands, faces, text, warped props, temporal flicker, impossible motion, incoherent backgrounds, and unreadable pseudo-subtitles.

Ending Frame / Handoff

Does the last frame support the next clip or episode?

Thresholds

• Accept if intent and continuity are strong and artifacts are minor.
• Reroll if intent is right but artifacts are random/sample-specific.
• Revise prompt if failures are systematic: wrong action, missing reference, unclear ending, overloaded dialogue, or conflicting camera instructions.
• Ask user if two candidates trade off taste, style, or commercial direction.

Image-Specific Notes

For character sheets or expression grids, reject or revise if identity changes across panels, outfit mutates, extra characters appear, labels become unreadable, or the grid lacks the required front/side/back or expression coverage.

Video-Specific Notes

Review one candidate at a time. Watch for face drift over time, impossible hand movement, temporal flicker, action that does not reach the ending frame, or dialogue that feels too dense for the duration.

Selected Semantics

Accepted files are copied to selected.*; previous selected files are backed up as selected-prev-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-ffffff.*; candidates remain untouched.

Candidate Review

• Episode:
• Clip / Asset:
• Candidate:
• Decision: accept | reroll | revise_prompt | ask_user

Summary

Rubric Notes

• Intent match:
• Character consistency:
• Visual continuity:
• Hook / drama clarity:
• Artifacts:
• Ending frame / handoff:

Evidence

Concrete observed frames, image regions, or file/probe facts.

Next Action

• If accept: selected path and copy command.
• If reroll: same prompt or same adapter settings to retry.
• If revise_prompt: exact prompt changes.
• If ask_user: the trade-off to decide.