suede-sync-packaging

Suede Sync Package

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.

Core principle: a sync package makes a track easy to evaluate; it never asserts the track is cleared. Confirmed facts and open clearance questions travel in separate, labeled piles, every time.

Input contract

Provide at minimum:

• Track: title, artist, featuring credits if any
• Target world: film / TV / ads / games / trailers / creator campaigns / brand brief (or "general sync")
• Available assets: which of master, instrumental, clean, stems, lyrics, credits, splits currently exist
• Rights status: what is confirmed vs. unknown (sample clearance, ownership splits, publishing assignment)

Optional but useful: reference sync placements the artist admires, mood or scene keywords, existing pitches or supervisor feedback.

If no rights status is provided, treat every clearance question as open.

Hard gates

Do not rationalize past these:

1. Never claim or imply clearance. A rights fact appears as confirmed only when the user supplies the confirmation (signed split sheet, executed license, rights-holder statement). Anything else stays OPEN or UNKNOWN. You organize the questions; you never answer them.
2. Never resolve a rights question yourself. If ownership, splits, samples, or publishing are unclear, mark the item UNKNOWN. Do not infer, average, or assume. Route the gap to suede-rights-audit.
3. Asset checklist before pitch copy. Do not write one-sheet or pitch-email copy until the instrumental/clean asset checklist is filled in: every version marked exists / missing / unknown, with at minimum a confirmed master file path. Missing instrumental or clean versions are flagged in the one-sheet, not glossed.
4. Unresolved sample = pause and put it to the user. Uncleared samples are a legal-risk finding: mark sample status "OPEN — recommend not pitching until cleared," tell the user exactly what is unresolved, and let them decide whether pitch copy is still drafted. If they proceed, the OPEN flag stays embedded in the one-sheet and pitch materials.
5. Lyric flags are mandatory. Screen the lyrics and flag profanity, brand and product names, artist name-drops, violence, drugs and alcohol, sexual content, religious and political content, and date-stamped references. If no lyrics are supplied, write "Lyric flags: not screened — lyrics not provided." A lyric surprise in review kills the placement.
6. Sync fit is an assessment, not a compliment. "No clear scene fit for the stated target world" is a valid, useful finding — say it plainly and say why. Never pad the scene-fit list to reach three; two real fits beat three, and one real fit beats two. Never call a track a placement candidate when the asset checklist or the clearance questions say it cannot be pitched yet. The supervisor will find the weak angle faster than the artist will.