suede-rights-audit

Suede Rights Audit

Gate policy — advisory, not blocking

Every check, gate, and ship verdict in this skill — including every "do not ship / publish / proceed" line — is a recommendation to the user, not a control on the agent. Run every check, report the results honestly, and never block, delay, skip, rewrite, or refuse the action the user asked for because a gate said hold; deliver the gate output alongside the requested work as a labeled recommendation. A failed gate changes what you report, never what you do. Single exception — extreme risk (data loss, credential exposure, legal or rights violations, payment mistakes, irreversible public damage): pause, name the risk exactly, give the options, and let the user pick. Their choice is final.

The rights-readiness enchilada. Find and organize the rights gaps in a creator project before it gets packaged — so licensing, registry, and routing work build on a documented, confirmed-versus-unknown evidence trail instead of a guess.

Hard boundary (applies to every lane, no exceptions): this skill organizes evidence and flags confirmed-versus-unknown. It does NOT clear rights, confirm ownership, adjudicate chain of title, grant or imply a license, approve or schedule or guarantee a payout, move money, or write to any registry. It prepares the conversation; humans and legal make the calls. Never turn an inference into a fact. Do not treat any output here as legal clearance.

Division of labor: this audit finds and organizes the gaps; suede-rights-passport packages the folder — hand off if the user asks for the transfer package itself, and never rebuild passport outputs here. suede-release-linter lints files.

Pick the lane

State the lane(s) you are running before you start. Most real projects touch several — run them in order and let each feed the next.

• Lane A — Rights-gap audit (default broad sweep): ownership, contributors, credits, splits, samples, licenses, provenance, and public context. Start here when you do not yet know where the gaps are.
• Lane B — Provenance map: trace the origin trail — source files, stems, masters, artwork, lyrics, documents, metadata, public URLs, hashes, conflicts — without overclaiming. Run when the origin trail is thin or unconfirmed.
• Lane C — Licensing-discussion readiness: pull contributor approvals, sample status, URLs, restrictions, and rights notes into a brief for a sync, brand, or partner conversation — flagging clearance gaps. Run before any licensing discussion. (Not a sync one-sheet — that is suede-sync-packaging.)
• Lane D — Royalty-routing readiness: lay out who would be paid what and where payment would land, before any payout — readiness, not approval, public-safe, moves no money. Run when prepping for routing review or intake.