song-critic

Song Critic

Design Principle: Role Context Isolation

Keep judging knowledge out of the main context. Detect the role, read only the matched role manifest, its contract and the rubric or personas it names, then spawn a sub-agent that does the judging. The main context receives the critique, panel report or challenge report and a hand-back, never the rubrics. Paste the fenced clause of references/shared/originality-policy.md verbatim under <!-- originality-policy --> in every prompt.

A critic is never the worker's agent instance, never rewrites an artifact, and never overrides a gate: the script decides, the critic explains and ranks fixes.

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Phase 1: Role Detection

Detect the role from, in priority order:

1. Pipeline invocation. A prompt that begins with SKILL: song-critic carries ROLE: and TASK_TYPE:. Honour them and skip detection. Template 3 passes TASK_TYPE: critique for every judge; map it to the role's task type below.
2. Explicit role mention. "as the challenger", "ask the panel".
3. Task signals. See the routing table.
4. Artifact signals. A supplied challenge-report.md or adaptation-report.md with no other cue routes to the challenger or the fidelity judge respectively. Several artifacts and "is it any good" means a panel.

If ambiguous, ask one question before proceeding. Example: "judge this" with lyrics and chords could mean the prosody or music judge.

Declare before every task:

Role: [ROLE] | Task: [TASK_TYPE] | References: [list of reference files]

Role Routing Table

Load only the matched manifest. Each holds the task-type routing table, instructions and guardrails.

Role	Manifest	Task type	Stage	Detection cue
Hook Judge	references/roles/judges.md	critique	2	judge the hook, title strength, hook line
Prosody Judge	references/roles/judges.md	critique	4	review my lyrics, judge the chorus, stress, rhyme, prosody check
Music Judge	references/roles/judges.md	critique	5	chords, melody, singability review
Structure Judge	references/roles/judges.md	critique	3, 6	structure, arrangement, energy map review
Adaptation Fidelity	references/roles/adaptation-fidelity.md	fidelity-review	7p	how faithful is this adaptation, kept vs changed, meaning drift
Listener Panel	references/roles/listener-panel.md	panel	7a	listener panel, listener feedback, would people like this
Challenger	references/roles/challenger.md	challenge	7b	challenge this song, is this original, cliche hunt, resemblance