comic-continuity-audit

comic-continuity-audit — the Motif-State-Table Audit (Phase 1, step S11)

The diegetic-continuity AUDIT step of the comic-author suite: verify that a baked panel obeys the WORLD-LOGIC the comic committed to — time / prop-state / motif-arc / metric-value / causality across cuts — distinct from identity/style (comic-director's panel_gate already covers "does the character LOOK the same"; this covers "does the WORLD stay consistent"). The audit is not vibes: it reads the pre-committed MOTIF STATE TABLE authored by comic-storyboard-creator (the motif_ledger node) and checks each baked panel STRICTLY against its own row + the film's global invariants. This skill is the AUDIT producer, not the gate: it emits a continuity review node (world-state evidence) that comic-cross-layer-gate --gate continuity collects and adjudicates — the loop can DRIVE but it cannot ACQUIT (acceptance-gate). On a same-panel miss it requests a retry_panel; a cross-frame motif break is handed to the page assembly_gate's drift set (seed-anchored comic panels are independent — there is no cross-panel rollback in this image pipeline, spiral_engine.js:54). It ports the real procedure of aris_movie's continuity-audit (Gemini-as-fact-extractor → Claude-as-deterministic-judge → violations → routed repair) onto stills, but anchors it to our pre-committed per-dimension-per-panel ledger instead of asking a holistic judge to infer intent.

Cardinal lesson baked in as a predicate, not prose: the audit IS the table. The audit never invents a rule — it reads the motif_ledger and flags any panel whose observed value contradicts that panel's row. And it is cast-aware: a panel that simply does not contain a character (the duo are absent in S01/S03/S06/S18/S20/S22 by design) is design, NEVER a drift penalty (absence≠drift). This is the concrete fix for the B03 cross-frame FALSE-drift: IDENTICAL min=0 scores across re-bakes were the fingerprint of a broken, cast-blind RUBRIC — not a broken artifact. When scores don't move across repairs, audit the JUDGE (is it reading the table? is it penalizing intended absence?), do not keep regenerating the panel.

  motif_ledger (the TABLE) ─▶ ① LOAD  attempt + prior-accepted + this panel's table row + active continuity_constraints
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                            ② EXTRACT  Gemini auto-gemini-3, ONE analyzeFile per panel image, FACT-ONLY (no scoring, no comparison)
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                            ③ JUDGE  Claude deterministic: observed ⊖ table-row  AND  global invariants
                                  │       (DDL monotonic · bounce S02=ONLY MAX · metric columns never co-mingle · MIRROR LOCKS)
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                            ④ CAST-AWARE FILTER  intended-absence ≠ drift; design variation ≠ drift  (read the row's design intent)
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                            ⑤ EMIT  one continuity review node (always) + 0-N continuity_constraint candidates + observed_state patch
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                       contradiction? ─ yes ─▶ same-panel miss: request retry_panel (failure_mode.repair_pattern = positive invariant)
                                  │            cross-frame break: add panel id to the page assembly_gate drift set (NO cross-panel rollback)
                                  │ no
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                            ⑥ the continuity review node is COLLECTED by comic-cross-layer-gate --gate continuity (the gate ACQUITS, not this skill)