suede-rights-passport

Creator Rights Package Builder

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.

Overview

Create a local rights and provenance transfer package from messy creator materials. The package should make the work easier for a creator, collaborator, advisor, registry, marketplace, label, or optional Suede reviewer to inspect, optimize, register, route royalties for, license, and expose to agent-readable commerce systems.

Core principle: the package carries questions, not answers. Every rights fact ships as confirmed (with user-supplied evidence) or as unknown with a question in missing-info-report.md. The package never resolves a rights question, and building it clears nothing.

Public v1 is offline-first: prepare files and metadata, do not upload files, write to a registry, request private keys, or claim legal clearance. The 0.2 manifest separates musical works, recordings, releases, parties, rights claims, licenses, third-party material, consent, provenance, and privacy so a downstream operator can map facts without collapsing unlike rights objects.

Division of labor: suede-rights-audit finds and organizes the gaps; this skill packages the folder. If the gaps themselves need investigation or evidence work, hand off to the audit first.

Workflow

1. Identify the source folder or supplied files.
2. Ask for the output location if it is not obvious.
3. Read references/package-standard.md for the expected transfer package shape.
4. If working on a local folder, run scripts/create_transfer_package.py to inventory files, hash assets, and create starter reports.
5. Read references/creator-questions.md and ask only for missing information that blocks package quality.
6. Fill or refine the generated package files:
   • RIGHTS_PASSPORT.md
   • suede-intake.json
   • provenance.md
   • credits-and-splits.md
   • license-notes.md
   • optimization-brief.md
   • missing-info-report.md
7. Flag uncertainty clearly. Use unknown, unconfirmed, or needs creator confirmation instead of inventing rights facts. Never resolve a rights question while packaging: ownership, split, sample, and license statuses move to confirmed only on user-supplied evidence, and every open gap ships as a question in missing-info-report.md.
8. For an external exchange, read references/ddex-c2pa-crosswalk.md, identify the receiver's exact profile/version, and keep the mapping labeled as a crosswalk until receiver conformance tooling passes.
9. Run scripts/validate_transfer_package.py with --strict-current against new output folders. A pass confirms schema, evidence-state, reference, and share-bound structure only — it does not mean rights are confirmed.
10. End with a concise transfer summary: package path, schema version, files found, missing info, risk flags, privacy/redaction posture, and recommended next step.