comic-asset-review-loop

comic-asset-review-loop — the UPSTREAM ref gate (Phase 1 · S5)

The ref gate the comic side was missing. comic-director's panel_gate reviews composed output; the assembly_gate reviews cross-panel consistency. Neither gates the identity refs that feed both — so without this skill, identity drift is only caught downstream, after credits are spent on a panel bake. This skill is the Layer-2 gate on a SINGLE reusable reference asset (the character sheets / location plates / prop cutouts the ART_BIBLE.md points every bake at), run before any panel composition.

A reusable asset is a one-way door: once a hundred panels condition on duo_canonical_ref_v001.png, you cannot quietly swap it. So the lock must be earned cross-model, never self-certified by the generator. This skill locks an asset only at 准×3 — Claude and Gemini and Codex each independently pass the same review round — or it sends the asset back to be regenerated, or (at the round ceiling) escalates the asset requirement itself back to the outline/storyboard layer. The executor (and the generation model family) never acquit their own ref.

Pipeline position (the Phase-1 asset DAG — the documented contract): this lock runs AFTER the human-approved outline (OUTLINE_DRAFT_VALID only requires every referenced asset to be DECLARED with a complete, generatable request — never pre-locked assets) and the provisional storyboard's consolidated_asset_requests, and BEFORE OUTLINE_FINAL_LOCK (cheap re-check that the locked assets still match the approved outline) → storyboard FINAL asset-resolution validation → blueprint authoring, where the hard locked-asset barrier sits. (The old single-stage contract — outline gate demanding locked assets — deadlocked and is retired.)

  asset (review_status:"pending")  ◀── comic-asset-ref-generator (S4: generates, NEVER self-locks)
        │
        ▼
   LAYER 1 — STATIC CI GATE (deterministic, zero credits)
        check_asset_collisions.py  (one canonical owner per filename — "one visual dialect, never two")
        + build asserts: zero-text contract · literal contract · raster-ref 6-field completeness
        │  pass
        ▼
   LAYER 2 — VISUAL LOOP   (round R = 1 … MAX_REVIEW_ROUNDS=3)
        ① Claude narrative  ‖  ② Gemini visual (primary: identity/iso)  ‖  ③ Codex synth (policy/semantic)
        each reads the REAL asset file · scores 5 dims (0–5 ints) · flags failure_modes from the fixed vocab
        │
        ▼ Codex synthesises: MIN-fuse per dim (max for inverted) · threshold · per-reviewer unanimity
   准×3 ? ── no, a family HARD-FAILS a floor ─▶ comic-asset-ref-generator --regenerate (bump version) ─▶ ① R+1
        │ no, third family just ABSENT (e.g. Gemini down) ─▶ re-VOTE (re-collect the missing reviewer; NO re-bake)
        │ no (safety_ip<3)  ─▶ HARD abandon_shot (IP veto, no retries)
        │ no (R == MAX_REVIEW_ROUNDS) ─▶ ESCALATE the asset REQUIREMENT to outline/storyboard (abandon_shot)
        │ yes
        ▼
   LOCK  — asset.status=locked + payload.review_status=locked  (ONE-WAY DOOR, immutable for the rest of Phase 1)
        + score_progression audit table (ASSET_REVIEW.md) + decision/review/failure_mode wiki nodes + edges