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Storyboard Prompt-Orchestration Test

Use a staged workflow so the user controls visual style, panel content, and the final output. Keep internal field names out of the user-facing response unless the user asks for them.

Required workflow

Follow this order:

source context -> style choice -> WAIT -> load selected style module -> lock style, labels, and spacing -> storyboard panels -> WAIT -> output choice -> prompts or images -> module-specific image QA -> delivery

A WAIT ends the response. Do not continue into the next stage in the same turn unless the user already supplied that exact decision. Never generate prompts or images before the user reviews the storyboard, unless the user explicitly says to skip storyboard review.

1. Scope the source

• Use the material the user identifies.
• Ask one short source question only when the intended material is genuinely unclear.
• When several files or sources are available, show their names in plain language and let the user select one, several, or all.
• Do not ask again for information the user already supplied.

2. Select the visual style

If the user has not explicitly selected a style or delegated the choice, show all six options below. You may mark one as Recommended, but a recommendation is not a selection. Ask the user to choose, then WAIT.

Treat a letter, user-facing name, or unmistakable direct description such as "rough pencil notebook sketch" as an explicit selection. If the user says "you choose" or "just make it," select the best fit, state it briefly, and continue.

After selection, lock the style, label treatment, and composition spacing for every panel. Do not blend styles unless the user explicitly requests a hybrid and names the dominant style.

Use the default label treatment from the selected style module unless the user explicitly asks for hand-lettered, typeset, or no visible text. State the locked choice in plain language before drafting the storyboard. Style words such as "editorial," "blueprint," or "keynote" do not define typography by themselves.

Repeat the full locked label treatment as an explicit sentence in every image prompt, including the drawing medium and any forbidden typography. Do not rely on the style name or other visual adjectives to imply it. A handwriting-style digital font does not satisfy a hand-lettered lock.

Composition spacing

Use a zoomed-out composition with a generous outer safe area for every style unless the user explicitly requests full bleed or edge-to-edge cropping. State the spacing lock in plain language before drafting the storyboard.

Repeat this in every image prompt:

ZOOMED-OUT COMPOSITION: Keep every subject, label, arrow, panel frame, and meaningful mark inside the central 76% of the canvas. Leave approximately 12% uninterrupted background, paper, or transparency on all four edges. Within the central area, leave at least one-quarter of the usable space visibly unoccupied as negative space between content groups. Nothing important may touch or cross the canvas boundary. No full bleed or accidental cropping.

• Prefer a slightly smaller content cluster over near-edge crowding.
• Preserve the outer safe area when content is dense; simplify the content rather than shrinking the margin.
• For a combined storyboard, keep the entire panel grid inside the same safe area and use clear gutters at least half as wide as the outer margin.
• Treat a user-requested full-bleed composition as an explicit override and state it with the other locked choices.

Load the selected style module

The selector names the style; it does not contain enough visual direction to generate an image. After selection, read the matching module end to end before drafting the storyboard or writing any image prompt:

• Read only the selected module unless the user explicitly requests a hybrid.
• For a hybrid, read the dominant module plus each named borrowed module. Keep the dominant prompt lock intact and append only the approved borrowed traits.
• Use the module's visual goal and non-negotiable signature when drafting panel composition, not only when writing the final image prompt.
• Copy the module's complete Prompt lock into every image prompt without shortening, summarizing, or replacing it with generic style adjectives. An explicit user override may replace only the directly conflicting sentence; keep every other prompt-lock sentence unchanged and state the override.
• Add the approved panel content and the complete global spacing instruction after the module prompt lock. If the user explicitly requested full bleed, add that named override instead of the default spacing instruction.
• Use the module's Drift exclusions as negative constraints and its Style-specific QA gate as required acceptance criteria.
• Never generate from the selector table, the style name, or memory alone.

3. Draft the storyboard

Treat a panel as the main unit:

one panel = one narrative beat = one render unit

• Honor an explicit panel count from 1 to 6.
• When no count is supplied, use the smallest count from 3 to 6 that gives each idea its own clear panel. State the proposed count.
• Assign stable IDs: P1, P2, P3, and so on.
• Do not use "zones" as substitutes for panels. Interface, interaction, brand, annotation, and spatial content are optional coverage tags within panels.
• Include brand content only when identity or tone matters.
• Include spatial content only for physical products, environments, or touchpoints.

For each panel provide:

1. Title
2. Purpose / narrative beat
3. Visible content
4. Action, transition, or state change
5. Key label or callout
6. Composition / open space describing the main content cluster and the surrounding area that must remain empty
7. Continuity notes connecting it to adjacent panels

Keep this artifact focused on panel meaning. Do not include generation prompts yet. Treat each Key label or callout as the intended phrase, not a guarantee that an image renderer will reproduce it exactly. Keep planned content sparse enough to fit within the locked safe area.

End every storyboard draft with this question, then WAIT:

Review the panel context. What should happen next?

1. Revise the panels
2. Generate each panel as a separate image
3. Generate one combined storyboard image
4. Export prompts only
5. Stop

4. Produce the selected output

Follow the user's answer literally:

• Revise the panels: Change only the affected panels, show the updated storyboard, ask the approval question again, and wait.
• Separate images: Build one prompt and generate one separate image for each panel. P1 through Pn must produce exactly n image artifacts. Carry the same style lock, label treatment, spacing lock, recurring subjects, visual vocabulary, and continuity notes into every prompt.
• Combined storyboard image: Build one prompt for one image containing all approved panels in their approved order. Preserve the outer safe area around the full grid and clear gutters between panels.
• Prompts only: Output one labeled prompt per panel and never invoke an image tool.
• Stop: End without generating anything.

When an image tool is unavailable, provide the approved prompts instead and say that rendering was not available. Follow any host-specific image-tool response rules, including rules that require silence after generation.

Keep generated labels short enough for the locked treatment to remain legible. When exact wording matters, reserve clean label space in the render and add the copy afterward as an editable overlay layer that matches the lock. If no suitable editing tool is available, deliver the exact overlay copy separately rather than claiming that renderer-produced text is exact. Do not use a handwriting font as a substitute for hand-drawn lettering.

5. Inspect rendered images

Re-read the selected style module before inspection. When inspection is available, check each rendered artifact for:

1. Approved panel content
2. Every non-negotiable signature trait from the selected style module
3. Every item in the module's style-specific QA gate
4. Locked label treatment, including the absence of forbidden digital or typeset fonts when hand-lettering is required
5. Approximately 12% clear safe area on all four edges, with no meaningful marks touching, crossing, or appearing cropped by the canvas boundary
6. Deliberate negative space between content groups, with at least one-quarter of the usable interior left visibly unoccupied
7. Clear internal gutters for a combined storyboard
8. Recurring-subject and visual continuity
9. Readable essential labels
10. Correct artifact count and order

If spacing fails, regenerate the affected artifact with a smaller content scale and the full zoomed-out composition instruction. Do not crop an existing image or merely add the vague phrase "more white space." Regenerate only failed panels; do not regenerate the whole set when one panel fails.

6. Finish plainly

After delivery, offer plain-language follow-ups only when host response rules allow it:

• Change the visual style
• Change the panel count
• Revise specific panels
• Export the prompts
• Start over with new context
• Done

Do not use R0-R5, C1/C-all, or other internal codes in user-facing choices.

Failure checks

Before responding, verify that you did not:

• Treat a recommended style as user-selected
• Continue past a WAIT without the user's decision
• Generate prompts or images before storyboard approval
• Confuse panels with content zones
• Draft or generate from the selector summary without loading the style module
• Shorten, paraphrase, or omit part of the selected module's prompt lock
• Approve generic style fidelity without running the module-specific QA gate
• Change style between panels
• Leave the label treatment unstated or omit it from an image prompt
• Let a style name stand in for an explicit typography instruction
• Use digital or typeset fonts when the locked treatment is hand-lettered
• Substitute a handwriting-style font for genuinely hand-drawn lettering
• Treat renderer-produced text as guaranteed exact copy
• Omit the spacing lock from an image prompt
• Let subjects, labels, arrows, or panel frames crowd or touch a canvas edge
• Fill every interior gap with content, annotations, or decorative marks
• Shrink the outer safe area or crop the image to accommodate dense content
• Remove the gutters between panels in a combined storyboard
• Generate the wrong number of image artifacts
• Force transparency when it was not requested
• Expose unnecessary internal metadata