{
  "schema": "arcanea.visual_prompt_contract.v1",
  "intent": "Create an internal identity-discovery study of Ten Guardian ensemble hierarchy; do not present provisional traits as canonical.",
  "subject": {
    "stableId": "guardian-ensemble",
    "displayName": "Ten Guardian ensemble hierarchy",
    "kind": "regression",
    "identityLock": "A future ensemble regression for all ten Guardians. It cannot be rendered truthfully until each Guardian has an accepted versioned physical identity contract and reference hash.",
    "evidenceState": "locked-name-gate-domain-creator-proposed-behavior-physical-identity-open",
    "openIdentityVariables": [
      "embodiment type and apparent age",
      "facial structure, skin tone, hair, body proportions, and gender expression",
      "garment architecture, maintained objects, and material culture",
      "scale relative to people, architecture, and the bonded Godbeast",
      "cultural or geographic visual language, if any"
    ],
    "allowedVariation": "This is an identity-discovery study, not an identity master. The following variables are deliberately provisional and may be explored without being treated as canon: embodiment type and apparent age; facial structure, skin tone, hair, body proportions, and gender expression; garment architecture, maintained objects, and material culture; scale relative to people, architecture, and the bonded Godbeast; cultural or geographic visual language, if any. Only source-defined traits, role or Gate relation, evidence objects, relationship, and story beat may not drift; every variable named as open above must remain visibly provisional."
  },
  "storyBeat": "All ten Guardians enact distinct Gate choices in one shared civic space without a centered supreme leader; this scene remains unavailable until their individual identities are locked.",
  "composition": "21:9 ensemble with no centered supreme leader and no color-only identification.",
  "output": {
    "assetCount": 1,
    "aspectRatio": "21:9",
    "intendedSurface": "identity-continuity-evidence-sheet",
    "deliveryRole": "future Guardian ensemble regression blocked until identity locks",
    "cropSafety": "Keep both relationship anchors and the decisive interaction inside the central 16:9 safety field; peripheral atmosphere may crop, but no alternate crop is authorized.",
    "generatedTextPolicy": "no-generated-text"
  },
  "designSystem": {
    "styleMode": "adaptive-primary-pending",
    "direction": "ADAPTIVE_STYLE_PRIMARY_PENDING_AFTER_ROUND_01",
    "colorLaw": "70% ecological/material neutral, 20% identity family, 8% active phenomenon, 2% relational accent.",
    "escalation": "resonant: one localized impossible behavior; environment remains physically legible",
    "materialLaw": "Tactile, specific materials with wear, weight, construction, and local environmental response.",
    "typography": "No text, letters, logos, watermarks, borders, captions, or pseudo-glyphs inside the generated image."
  },
  "light": "Motivated directional light plus one localized Arcanean working signal; preserve skin, material, and atmospheric truth.",
  "references": {
    "sourceRefs": [
      ".arcanea/lore/CANON_LOCKED.md#tier-2-the-ten-gates--arcanean-gods-locked [sha256:58c9c86fd3b540e274d478b91096523031132388b7b18b2fa1d67dee676bf54f]",
      "creator-supplied/ARCANEA_TENFOLD_CONSTITUTION_V1_0_LEVEL99.md#sha256=51ead4677134b87e35fd6ded6556dc67f9daa609313bcd9eccc74f6d94de998b (proposal-evidence-not-repo-ssot)"
    ],
    "imageRefs": [],
    "imageReferencePolicy": "Use only owned or licensed references. Record file hash and role: identity, composition, material, or lighting. Never use a reference as permission to imitate its creator."
  },
  "constraints": [
    "grayscale silhouette remains identifiable",
    "the compared identity, anatomy, silhouette, and maintained objects remain continuous across every panel",
    "visible phenomenon serves one story law",
    "adult premium editorial finish; no mascot energy",
    "provisional physical choices remain visibly reviewable and must never be described as locked canon",
    "compare against accepted identity reference hash from an earlier round; stop if no accepted reference exists"
  ],
  "avoid": [
    "generic fantasy concept art",
    "rainbow galaxy effects",
    "permanent flame crystal or waterfall hair",
    "franchise or living-artist style imitation",
    "appropriated sacred clothing symbols gestures or shrine architecture",
    "illegible pseudo-text",
    "sexualized or childlike treatment",
    "color as the only identity signal"
  ],
  "provider": {
    "adapter": "runtime-discovered",
    "preferredCapabilities": [
      "high-fidelity reference input",
      "iterative editing",
      "consistent identity",
      "generation receipt"
    ],
    "model": null,
    "seed": null,
    "providerParameters": {}
  },
  "verification": {
    "deterministicChecks": [
      "declared aspect ratio within 1.5% provider-rounding tolerance",
      "file decodes",
      "no embedded prompt text",
      "receipt and output hash recorded"
    ],
    "rubric": "arcanea_visual_quality_v1_10x5",
    "passThreshold": 42,
    "identityFloor": 4,
    "canonFloor": 4,
    "humanApprovalRequired": true
  },
  "governance": {
    "releaseEligibility": "internal-only-until-identity-lock",
    "sensitivityReviewRequired": false,
    "reviewRequirements": [
      "Creator selects or rejects the physical identity only after comparative silhouette, portrait, and action studies",
      "Canon review records every accepted physical trait before an identity-master contract is issued",
      "Rights and qualified cultural-origin review are required before using a human reference or culturally specific visual language"
    ]
  },
  "contractHash": "7422f0294c79644bed0529ef22ae44e6db9eba18fd2aec4e6e81c3d11808f866"
}