Generalize visual group guardrails

examples/coordinator/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.json

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
     ],
     "public_facts": [
       {
-        "text": "AU Yard Twelve is a dangerous Pallas cavity-maintenance site where dry-yard uplift crews, baseline riggers, and engineered seal technicians keep habitat seals inside operating margins.",
+        "text": "AU Yard Twelve is a dangerous Pallas cavity-maintenance site where AU-modified uplift maintenance crews, baseline riggers, and engineered seal technicians keep habitat seals inside operating margins.",
         "refs": [
           "aetheria.pallas_species_strikes",
           "aetheria.aeronautics_unlimited",

examples/ink/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.ink

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ It is not a mine and not a factory floor, though Aeronautics Unlimited prices it
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.intro.service_ring_kappa; visual_scene_id: pallas_service_ring_kappa
 Lio Vale walks Service Ring Kappa with a shift-control slate under one arm and yesterday's sleep still folded behind the eyes. Lio's official job is maintenance coordination: making incompatible bodies, tools, schedules, and liability codes share one dangerous ring without killing each other before lunch. AU calls this a routine seal-maintenance cycle. The workers call it breathing for people rich enough to forget what keeps the air inside.
 
-Cephalopod crawl crews drift in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that do not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs keep them alive in dry air, which is not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers clip dry anchors along the outer rail and complain with the solemnity of a religious rite. Engineered seal techs wait by the manifold in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations make the system look civilized: a humidity credit that keeps gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, break-table charts that translate three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
+Cephalopod crawl crews drift in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that do not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs keep them alive in dry air, which is not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers clip anchor hardware along the outer rail and complain with the solemnity of a religious rite. Engineered seal techs wait by the manifold in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations make the system look civilized: a humidity credit that keeps gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, break-table charts that translate three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
 
 The yard is normal. That is the first horror.
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Nara-7 stands at the Kappa manifold with the other engineered seal technicians,
 
 === intro_orrin ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.intro.orrin_anchor_rail; visual_scene_id: pallas_orrin_anchor_rail
-Orrin Dax's dry-side crew works the anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They are baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Orrin complains like a man trying not to notice he is scared.
+Orrin Dax's anchor crew works the anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They are baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Orrin complains like a man trying not to notice he is scared.
 
 -> intro_teth
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Across the galley, two engineered techs eat in precise silence. Orrin watches th
 
 "Funny how the future always needs fewer of us," he says.
 
-Lio lets the complaint breathe before answering. "Future still needs dry anchors cleared before crawl-access support can carry load."
+Lio lets the complaint breathe before answering. "Future still needs anchor hardware cleared before crawl-access support can carry load."
 
 Orrin snorts. "Then tell the future to remember who taught it where the bolts are."
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ The board does not understand a ritual unless someone bills it.
 
 Nara's voice is small and clear. "No blind crawl. Kappa remembers cutting Rell. We remember Rell."
 
-The dry-side riggers go quiet. Teth's harness valves click once, then stop.
+The baseline anchor riggers go quiet. Teth's harness valves click once, then stop.
 
 -> ilya_arrival
 
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ The Awakened Labor Front mirror sits outside AU's incident board: a recognition
 The formal log has already narrowed everyone's exits. Ilya can punish a stoppage, but she cannot pretend no one named it.
 }
 
-Orrin's dry-side crew waits by the anchors. Their faces say what nobody wants to admit: if engineered workers are people, then baseline workers have been angry at the wrong enemy and still poor afterward.
+Orrin's anchor crew waits by the anchors. Their faces say what nobody wants to admit: if engineered workers are people, then baseline workers have been angry at the wrong enemy and still poor afterward.
 
 {life_support_margin <= 2:
     The air plant pings a margin warning. Every political word in the ring gets heavier.
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ The Kappa pressure-margin clock is still kind. Not generous, but kind enough to
     ~ nara_centered = true
     -> show_nara_memory
 // ghostlight.branch: branch-03-ask-orrin-solidarity; action: speak; intent: Ask baseline riggers to defend safety through their own expertise.
-* [Ask Orrin to put dry-side authority behind the refusal.]
+* [Ask Orrin to put anchor-rail authority behind the refusal.]
     ~ baseline_solidarity += 2
     ~ strike_cohesion += 1
     -> ask_orrin_solidarity
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ The seal assembly shudders hard enough to make dust jump from old bolt heads. Th
 }
 
 {baseline_solidarity >= 2:
-Orrin's dry-side crew clears the anchor rail without waiting for an AU order.
+Orrin's anchor crew clears the anchor rail without waiting for an AU order.
 - else:
 The baseline riggers hesitate, trapped between fear of replacement and fear of being blamed for whatever dies next.
 ~ life_support_margin -= 1
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ There is no bypass bridge to soften the bargain. The margin stays ugly. But the
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.orrin_front_demand; visual_scene_id: pallas_orrin_front_demand
 Orrin steps forward before Lio has to spend Nara again.
 
-"Dry side refuses the crawl," he says. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in that throat, superintendent, put the board in first."
+"Anchor rail refuses the crawl," he says. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in that throat, superintendent, put the board in first."
 
 For one bright second, the old lie breaks: baseline and engineered labor are not natural enemies. They are different answers to the same invoice.
 

examples/ink/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.training.json

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   "purpose": "Revised coordinator and branch-compiler training artifact for a historical grounded Pallas Species Strikes IF scaffold.",
   "local_awareness_summary": [
     {
-      "text": "Lio knows the ordinary operating texture of AU Yard Twelve: dry-yard cephalopod maintenance, baseline dry anchors, engineered seal labor, and management's schedule discipline.",
+      "text": "Lio knows the ordinary operating texture of AU Yard Twelve: dry-yard cephalopod maintenance, baseline anchor hardware, engineered seal labor, and management's schedule discipline.",
       "source_refs": [
         "examples/lore-grounding/pallas-species-strikes.awakened-labor.v0.json",
         "examples/agent-state.pallas-species-strikes.v0.json"
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
       "action_type": "speak",
       "actor_intent": "Ask baseline workers to defend safety through their own expertise.",
       "state_basis": [
-        "Orrin's dry-side authority is publicly relevant to the safety decision."
+        "Orrin's anchor-rail authority is publicly relevant to the safety decision."
       ],
       "reviewed_consequences": [
         "Raises baseline_solidarity and strike_cohesion; later it can unlock Orrin fronting the demand."

examples/visual/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.visual.json

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "Use this as the broad location anchor for the fixture."
         ]
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_service_ring_kappa",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_service_ring",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Wide-to-medium view down Service Ring Kappa, a curved maintenance lane built into the engineered inner shell of a rotating Bloom habitat: on the left, dry-operation cephalopod work bays hold suspended dry-operation support frames with humidity collars, oxygenation tubes, soft restraint loops, rounded valve clusters, and many-armed tool rails; on the right, a dry-side rail of bolted steel track, anchor posts, heavy hooks, route bolts, and clipped safety tethers supports baseline human riggers. Along the consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and TCS substrate wall, a glowing amber manifold panel spreads into pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and route-diagram screens; engineered seal technicians in numbered gray suits wait near it while Lio walks through the center carrying a slate.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Wide-to-medium view down Service Ring Kappa, a curved maintenance lane built into the engineered inner shell of a rotating Bloom habitat: on the left, dry-operation cephalopod work bays hold suspended dry-operation support frames with humidity collars, oxygenation tubes, soft restraint loops, rounded valve clusters, and many-armed tool rails; on the right, a baseline anchor rail of bolted steel track, anchor posts, heavy hooks, route bolts, and clipped safety tethers supports baseline human anchor riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts. Along the consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and TCS substrate wall, a glowing amber manifold panel spreads into pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and route-diagram screens; engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags, close-cropped hair, and precise identical work posture wait near it while Lio walks through the center carrying a slate.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
-            "default_stance": "near the amber manifold with other gray-suited seal technicians",
+            "default_stance": "near the amber manifold with other numbered gray-skinsuit seal technicians",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.nara_7"
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at the dry anchor rail with a heavy hook and guarded posture",
+            "default_stance": "at the anchor rail with a heavy hook and guarded posture",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_nara_manifold",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_nara",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot at the Kappa manifold wall: a waist-high mechanical spine of ribbed pipe trunks, bundled fiber cables, removable patch plates, amber route-diagram screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and small hand-sized diagnostic touch panels bolted into curved Bloom shell plating over consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate. Nara-7 touches one ribbed metal access panel twice, pauses, then touches it with two fingers spread; three similar gray-suited technicians stand behind her in a precise line; Lio watches from the edge of frame with a slate.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot at the Kappa manifold wall: a waist-high mechanical spine of ribbed pipe trunks, bundled fiber cables, removable patch plates, amber route-diagram screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and small hand-sized diagnostic touch panels bolted into curved Bloom shell plating over consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate. Nara-7 touches one ribbed metal access panel twice, pauses, then touches it with two fingers spread; three engineered seal technicians stand behind her in a precise line, wearing clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags, close-cropped practical hair, pale gray-brown engineered-worker skin tones, and identical still work posture; Lio watches from the edge of frame with a slate.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -77,14 +77,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_anchor_rail",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_orrin",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot of the dry-side anchor rail: a long bolted steel track runs along the right side of the curved maintenance lane, fitted with anchor posts, route bolts, heavy hooks, clipped safety tethers, scratched warning labels, and old tool lockers. Orrin Dax braces a heavy dark anchor hook across his knees while his crew clears bolts along the rail; cheap recycler coffee mugs and patched gloves sit on a narrow fold-out break ledge; across the lane, engineered workers appear as distant gray figures near amber wall panels.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot of the baseline anchor rail: a long bolted steel track runs along the right side of the curved maintenance lane, fitted with anchor posts, route bolts, heavy hooks, clipped safety tethers, scratched warning labels, and old tool lockers. Orrin Dax braces a heavy dark anchor hook across his knees while his baseline anchor crew clears bolts along the rail; the crew wears patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, frost-worn sleeves, tool belts, and tired human faces lit by amber work lamps. Cheap recycler coffee mugs and patched gloves sit on a narrow fold-out break ledge; across the lane, engineered workers appear as distant clean gray figures near amber wall panels.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This prompt must always explain the dry-operation harness station in visible terms."
         ]
@@ -144,14 +144,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_ordinary_round_choice",
         "ink_anchor": "ordinary_round_choice",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Three-way workday choice frame in the curved Service Ring Kappa lane: Nara stands at the amber manifold wall of pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and touch panels; Orrin waits beside the dry-side bolted anchor track with his old hook and coffee mug; Teth floats in a dry-operation cephalopod harness station surrounded by oxygenation tubes and many-armed tool rails; Lio pauses between these work zones holding a slate. Warm amber work lights, idle green status panels, open walk lanes, uncluttered crew spacing, and routine tool-handling postures make the yard visibly calm.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Three-way workday choice frame in the curved Service Ring Kappa lane: Nara stands at the amber manifold wall of pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and touch panels; Orrin waits beside the baseline bolted anchor track with his old hook and coffee mug; Teth floats in a dry-operation cephalopod harness station surrounded by oxygenation tubes and many-armed tool rails; Lio pauses between these work zones holding a slate. Warm amber work lights, idle green status panels, open walk lanes, uncluttered crew spacing, and routine tool-handling postures make the yard visibly calm.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_break_table",
         "ink_anchor": "sit_with_orrin",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Break-table corner beside the dry-side anchor rail: a narrow fold-out metal ledge is bolted below scratched tool lockers and anchor hooks, with recycler coffee mugs, patched gloves, route bolts, and grease-stained cloths scattered across it. Orrin sits with a battered mug and an old anchor hook across his knees; Lio sits nearby at a respectful distance; in the background, engineered seal technicians eat in precise silence under harsh cafeteria strip lights beside curved Bloom shell plating, exposed consolidated aggregate, and pipework.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Break-table corner beside the baseline anchor rail: a narrow fold-out metal ledge is bolted below scratched tool lockers and anchor hooks, with recycler coffee mugs, patched gloves, route bolts, and grease-stained cloths scattered across it. Orrin sits with a battered mug and an old anchor hook across his knees; Lio sits nearby at a respectful distance; in the background, engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits eat in precise silence under harsh cafeteria strip lights beside curved Bloom shell plating, exposed consolidated aggregate, and pipework.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -242,14 +242,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_chokepoint_refusal",
         "ink_anchor": "chokepoint_refusal",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Threshold shot at the lip of the Kappa access throat: a dark oval crawl opening cuts into the curved engineered Bloom shell, ringed by overlapping patch plates, red-edged gasket seals, small amber warning lights, pressure gauges, scratched route arrows, and handholds leading inward. Nara-7 and three engineered seal technicians stop in a coordinated line with hands on the manifold wall of pipes and touch panels; dry-side riggers freeze beside the bolted anchor track; Teth's harness valves are locked mid-operation in the dry-operation harness station; Lio stands in the center lane facing the stopped workers and the uncategorized crawl opening.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Threshold shot at the lip of the Kappa access throat: a dark oval crawl opening cuts into the curved engineered Bloom shell, ringed by overlapping patch plates, red-edged gasket seals, small amber warning lights, pressure gauges, scratched route arrows, and handholds leading inward. Nara-7 and three engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags stop in a coordinated line with hands on the manifold wall of pipes and touch panels; baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts freeze beside the bolted anchor track; Teth's harness valves are locked mid-operation in the dry-operation harness station; Lio stands in the center lane facing the halted gray-skinsuit seal technicians, brown-orange anchor riggers, and the uncategorized crawl opening.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at dry-side rail, watching",
+            "default_stance": "at baseline anchor rail, watching",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This frame shows the room before authority reclassifies it: Nara, Lio, Orrin, Teth, riggers, engineered technicians, the manifold, and the crawl throat hold the composition."
         ]
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_ilya_arrival",
         "ink_anchor": "ilya_arrival",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Authority-arrival transition at the Kappa access throat: Ilya Marne enters fast from the raised supervisor-side walkway, framed by blue-white AU schedule displays, transparent supervisor glass, and sharp rectangular management light. The maintenance floor below is a curved industrial lane with a dark gasket-rimmed crawl opening, amber pipe-and-panel manifold, bolted dry-side anchor rail, suspended cephalopod harness station, scuffed deck plates, ribbed Bloom-shell supports, and hard overhead work lamps. Lio turns toward Ilya with the slate half-raised; Nara and the gray-suited engineered technicians hold their line at the manifold; Orrin's dry-side riggers stand frozen by the anchor rail; Teth's harness valves are locked in place. Cold blue-white UI reflections and supervisor-glass glare cut across the amber work lighting, making management authority visible in the frame.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Authority-arrival transition at the Kappa access throat: Ilya Marne enters fast from the raised supervisor-side walkway, framed by blue-white AU schedule displays, transparent supervisor glass, and sharp rectangular management light. The maintenance floor below is a curved industrial lane with a dark gasket-rimmed crawl opening, amber pipe-and-panel manifold, bolted baseline anchor rail, suspended cephalopod harness station, scuffed deck plates, ribbed Bloom-shell supports, and hard overhead work lamps. Lio turns toward Ilya with the slate half-raised; Nara and the engineered seal technicians hold their line at the manifold, all in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags and identical still posture; Orrin's baseline anchor riggers stand frozen by the anchor rail in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and lowered tool belts; Teth's harness valves are locked in place. Cold blue-white UI reflections and supervisor-glass glare cut across the amber work lighting, making management authority visible in the frame.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "ilya_marne",
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at dry-side rail, watching the room become management's problem",
+            "default_stance": "at baseline anchor rail, watching the room become management's problem",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is a click-through tonal turn: the refusal has already happened, and Ilya's arrival makes it an authority problem."
         ]
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_quiet_safety_pause",
         "ink_anchor": "quiet_safety_pause",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Local-channel containment frame at the Kappa access throat: Lio holds a work slate low with a small amber safety-pause label, standing between the dark gasket-rimmed crawl opening, the manifold wall of pipes and touch panels, the bolted dry-side anchor rail, the suspended cephalopod harness station, and the raised supervisor walkway. Nara and the engineered technicians are stopped at the pipe-and-panel wall; Ilya watches Lio closely from the management side; Teth's dry-operation harness station and Orrin's anchor track are visible across the curved maintenance lane. Amber safety-pause markers, low handheld slate light, and controlled worker spacing create a contained procedural posture.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Local-channel containment frame at the Kappa access throat: Lio holds a work slate low with a small amber safety-pause label, standing between the dark gasket-rimmed crawl opening, the manifold wall of pipes and touch panels, the bolted baseline anchor rail, the suspended cephalopod harness station, and the raised supervisor walkway. Nara and the engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags are stopped at the pipe-and-panel wall; Ilya watches Lio closely from the management side; Teth's dry-operation harness station and Orrin's anchor track are visible across the curved maintenance lane. Amber safety-pause markers, low handheld slate light, and controlled worker spacing create a contained procedural posture.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "watching from the dry anchor rail with undecided posture",
+            "default_stance": "watching from the anchor rail with undecided posture",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "Visually distinguish this from public escalation: small local board, contained amber light, and purely local safety-pause display."
         ]
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_formalize_stoppage",
         "ink_anchor": "formalize_stoppage",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Formal stoppage frame inside the full work lane: Lio keys the slate with a cold blue incident-log marker reading coordinated labor stoppage; workers across the dry-operation harness bays and dry-side anchor track go still in a shared held breath. Ilya's posture hardens on the raised supervisor walkway; the amber manifold wall, dark anchor hooks, suspended cephalopod support rig, route bolts, pressure gauges, and warning lights all remain visible as parts of one work system refusing at once.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Formal stoppage frame inside the full work lane: Lio keys the slate with a cold blue incident-log marker reading coordinated labor stoppage; workers across the dry-operation harness bays and baseline anchor track go still in a shared held breath. Ilya's posture hardens on the raised supervisor walkway; the amber manifold wall, dark anchor hooks, suspended cephalopod support rig, route bolts, pressure gauges, warning lights, clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits, and patched brown-orange baseline rigger jackets all remain visible as parts of one work system refusing at once.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -406,14 +406,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_shield_nara",
         "ink_anchor": "shield_nara",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Protective body-position frame near the crawl throat: Lio stands directly in the sightline between Nara-7 and a small black inspector camera mounted above the gasket-rimmed crawl opening, using calm worker posture and body placement as a procedural shield. Nara's hands stay flat on the ribbed manifold rail behind Lio; Orrin watches from the dry-side anchor track with his hook lowered; Ilya's view from the supervisor walkway is partly blocked by Lio's body and the pipework.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Protective body-position frame near the crawl throat: Lio stands directly in the sightline between Nara-7 and a small black inspector camera mounted above the gasket-rimmed crawl opening, using calm worker posture and body placement as a procedural shield. Nara's hands stay flat on the ribbed manifold rail behind Lio; Orrin watches from the baseline anchor track with his hook lowered; Ilya's view from the supervisor walkway is partly blocked by Lio's body and the pipework.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -447,14 +447,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_classification_pressure",
         "ink_anchor": "tests_and_reversals",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Tense administrative pressure frame inside the curved maintenance ring: AU incident-board screens on the supervisor wall label the event irregularity in cold blue-white text while the worker channel on Lio's slate labels it refusal. The amber pipe-and-panel manifold, bolted dry anchor track, dry-operation harness station bays, raised supervisor glass, and stopped workers occupy one frame. Blue-white management screens face amber worker-channel light, splitting the composition into two visible classification systems around the stopped work crew.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Tense administrative pressure frame inside the curved maintenance ring: AU incident-board screens on the supervisor wall label the event irregularity in cold blue-white text while the worker channel on Lio's slate labels it refusal. The amber pipe-and-panel manifold, bolted anchor track, dry-operation harness station bays, and raised supervisor glass occupy one frame. Clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians stand halted near the manifold with hands flat on pipe rails; baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts hold lowered anchor hooks at the anchor track; cephalopod workers are suspended in dry-operation rigs with oxygenation tubes and valve arms paused. Blue-white management screens face amber worker-channel light, splitting the composition into two visible classification systems around the stopped labor groups.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "with dry-side crew at anchors",
+            "default_stance": "with anchor crew at anchors",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This frame centers AU management classification and worker language; BioElevate legal enters as the next visual reframe."
         ]
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_bioelevate_liability_frame",
         "ink_anchor": "bioelevate_liability_frame",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Legal reframe transition inside the curved maintenance ring: a sterile white BioElevate legal window blooms over the AU incident board with scaffold drift and maintenance variance language, its clean rectangular interface floating above grimy pipework, amber manifold panels, scuffed deck plates, and dark Bloom-shell supports. Lio's slate shows an outside Awakened Labor Front mirror channel waiting below the official labels; Ilya stands near the supervisor channel with clipped command posture. Nara stands near the amber manifold, Orrin's crew holds by the dry anchors, and Teth watches from the dry-operation harness station while corporate liability language visibly overlays the workers' refusal.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Legal reframe transition inside the curved maintenance ring: a sterile white BioElevate legal window blooms over the AU incident board with scaffold drift and maintenance variance language, its clean rectangular interface floating above grimy pipework, amber manifold panels, scuffed deck plates, and dark Bloom-shell supports. Lio's slate shows an outside Awakened Labor Front mirror channel waiting below the official labels; Ilya stands near the supervisor channel with clipped command posture. Nara stands near the amber manifold, Orrin's baseline anchor crew holds by the anchor hardware in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, and magnetic boots, and Teth watches from the dry-operation harness station while corporate liability language visibly overlays the workers' refusal.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "with dry-side crew at anchors, watching the language shift",
+            "default_stance": "with anchor crew at anchors, watching the language shift",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is a click-through tonal turn: BioElevate legal enters as a new institutional actor, changing refusal into liability grammar."
         ]
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_nara_marks_path",
         "ink_anchor": "show_nara_memory",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Object-focused shot of Lio's slate held outward in front of the manifold wall, a ribbed pipe-and-cable service spine with bronze-gray trunks, amber route screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and hand-sized touch panels blurred behind the display. The slate shows a crawl diagram with two safe plates, one false seam, and a red-marked cut line; behind it, the real crawl throat is visible as a dark gasket-ringed opening with patch plates and warning lights. Nara-7's hand hovers just above the display after marking it; Ilya and a BioElevate legal window are visible beyond the slate but slightly out of focus; Orrin stands at the dry-side rail edge of frame with his old anchor hook lowered, publicly backing the evidence from worker expertise.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Object-focused shot of Lio's slate held outward in front of the manifold wall, a ribbed pipe-and-cable service spine with bronze-gray trunks, amber route screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and hand-sized touch panels blurred behind the display. The slate shows a crawl diagram with two safe plates, one false seam, and a red-marked cut line; behind it, the real crawl throat is visible as a dark gasket-ringed opening with patch plates and warning lights. Nara-7's hand hovers just above the display after marking it; Ilya and a BioElevate legal window are visible beyond the slate but slightly out of focus; Orrin stands at the baseline anchor rail edge of frame with his old anchor hook lowered, publicly backing the evidence from worker expertise.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -559,20 +559,20 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "edge of frame by dry-side rail, anchor hook lowered while backing the evidence",
+            "default_stance": "edge of frame by baseline anchor rail, anchor hook lowered while backing the evidence",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           }
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_solidarity",
         "ink_anchor": "ask_orrin_solidarity",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Dry-side authority frame beside the anchor track: Lio faces Orrin across a foreground of heavy anchor hooks, clipped safety tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Orrin looks from Nara at the amber pipe-and-panel manifold to the dark gasket-rimmed crawl throat and then to his own crew; the geometry frames the decision through work expertise: anchors, route bolts, crawl throat, manifold, and crew sightlines.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Anchor-rail authority frame beside the anchor track: Lio faces Orrin across a foreground of heavy anchor hooks, clipped safety tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Orrin looks from Nara at the amber pipe-and-panel manifold to the dark gasket-rimmed crawl throat and then to his own crew; the geometry frames the decision through work expertise: anchors, route bolts, crawl throat, manifold, and crew sightlines.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This screen may be only one sentence in replay; let the red alert breathe."
         ]
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_climax_decision_line",
         "ink_anchor": "climax_decision",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Crowded decision-line frame under red alert inside the curved Service Ring Kappa maintenance lane: Lio stands between Ilya on the raised supervisor side, Nara near the amber pipe-and-panel manifold, Orrin's dry-side crew at the bolted anchor track, and Teth's dry-operation harness station with oxygenation tubes and tool rails. The dark crawl throat, anchor hooks, transparent supervisor wall, route screens, valve housings, and red warning lights all occupy one room. Red hazard lighting, blue-white authority screens, amber evidence displays, and bodies facing different control points make recognition language, evidence custody, and forced crawl authority read as competing visible pressures.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Crowded decision-line frame under red alert inside the curved Service Ring Kappa maintenance lane: Lio stands between Ilya on the raised supervisor side, Nara near the amber pipe-and-panel manifold, Orrin's baseline anchor crew at the bolted anchor track in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts, and Teth's dry-operation harness station with oxygenation tubes and tool rails. The dark crawl throat, anchor hooks, transparent supervisor wall, route screens, valve housings, red warning lights, clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits, and lowered anchor tools all occupy one room. Red hazard lighting, blue-white authority screens, amber evidence displays, and bodies facing different control points make recognition language, evidence custody, and forced crawl authority read as competing visible pressures.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "near dry-side crew at anchor rail",
+            "default_stance": "near anchor crew at anchor rail",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -733,14 +733,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_hold_for_recognition",
         "ink_anchor": "hold_for_recognition",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Recognition standoff under red emergency light: Lio keeps both hands visible while facing Ilya and the red AU incident board; the demand for worker judgment hangs between the supervisor glass, the amber-red manifold wall, and the halted workers. Nara stays beside the ribbed access panels, Orrin's crew holds position by the anchor track, and Teth's dry-operation harness station frames the other side with oxygenation tubes and valve clusters.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Recognition standoff under red emergency light: Lio keeps both hands visible while facing Ilya and the red AU incident board; the demand for worker judgment hangs between the supervisor glass, the amber-red manifold wall, and the halted workers. Nara stays beside the ribbed access panels, Orrin's baseline anchor crew holds position by the anchor track in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and lowered tool belts, and Teth's dry-operation harness station frames the other side with oxygenation tubes and valve clusters.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -829,18 +829,18 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_front_demand",
         "ink_anchor": "orrin_front_demand",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Solidarity climax frame at the dry-side anchor track: Orrin steps in front of the riggers with an anchor hook lowered like a work credential, gripped low and away from bodies; behind him are clipped tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Nara stands behind or beside Lio near the amber pipe-and-panel manifold; Ilya faces a demand coming from baseline workers while Nara is sheltered inside the worker group near the manifold.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Solidarity climax frame at the baseline anchor track: Orrin steps in front of the baseline anchor riggers, who wear patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts; Orrin holds an anchor hook lowered like a work credential, gripped low and away from bodies; behind him are clipped tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Nara stands behind or beside Lio near the amber pipe-and-panel manifold; Ilya faces a demand coming from baseline workers while Nara is sheltered inside the worker group near the manifold.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "front of the line, anchor hook down, claiming dry-side authority",
+            "default_stance": "front of the line, anchor hook down, claiming anchor-rail authority",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -861,14 +861,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_red_alert_worker_judgment",
         "ink_anchor": "red_alert_worker_judgment",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Red-alert worker-judgment frame inside Service Ring Kappa: Teth works the dry-operation harness under load, multiple arms moving across manual valve clusters, patched cuffs, tense oxygenation tubes, and red pressure gauges while the harness collar bites into the mantle. Orrin and baseline riggers hold the dry-side line with lowered anchor hooks; Nara stands steady by the amber manifold; Lio faces Ilya with the slate raised toward the incident log; Ilya records worker judgment on a red AU board with a tight, controlled posture. The curved engineered Bloom shell, seal hardware, pipe bundles, supervisor glass, and red warning light surround the whole group in one dangerous decision.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Red-alert worker-judgment frame inside Service Ring Kappa: Teth works the dry-operation harness under load, multiple arms moving across manual valve clusters, patched cuffs, tense oxygenation tubes, and red pressure gauges while the harness collar bites into the mantle. Orrin and baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts hold the anchor-rail line with lowered anchor hooks; Nara stands steady by the amber manifold with clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits behind her; Lio faces Ilya with the slate raised toward the incident log; Ilya records worker judgment on a red AU board with a tight, controlled posture. The curved engineered Bloom shell, seal hardware, pipe bundles, supervisor glass, and red warning light surround the whole group in one dangerous decision.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "teth_inkwise",
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "fronting the dry-side line with anchor hook lowered",
+            "default_stance": "fronting the anchor-rail line with anchor hook lowered",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is the selected Orrin-front path red-alert payoff: worker judgment becomes logged language while Teth absorbs the load through manual skill."
         ]
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_seal_holds",
         "ink_anchor": "return_fold",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Aftermath wide shot inside Service Ring Kappa: bruised amber recovery lights wash across the curved engineered Bloom shell, and the Kappa seal assembly shows safe readings on bolted pressure housings, gasket rings, glowing tubes, and emergency valve plates. Workers gather in small tense clusters around the pipe-and-panel manifold, dry anchor track, and dry-operation cephalopod harness station; scuffed boots, tool marks, faint industrial humidity haze, slack safety tethers, and dirty deck plates show the physical exhaustion of people who won only enough to keep breathing.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Aftermath wide shot inside Service Ring Kappa: bruised amber recovery lights wash across the curved engineered Bloom shell, and the Kappa seal assembly shows safe readings on bolted pressure housings, gasket rings, glowing tubes, and emergency valve plates. Clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians cluster near the pipe-and-panel manifold with hands off the controls; baseline anchor riggers in brown-orange patched jackets, heavy gloves, and magnetic boots gather near the anchor track with lowered hooks; cephalopod workers rest in dry-operation support rigs near oxygenation tubes and valve clusters. Scuffed boots, tool marks, faint industrial humidity haze, slack safety tethers, and dirty deck plates show the physical exhaustion of people who won only enough to keep breathing.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "with dry-side crew, posture determined if solidarity is high",
+            "default_stance": "with anchor crew, posture determined if solidarity is high",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -982,14 +982,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_object_callback",
         "ink_anchor": "return_object_callback",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Quiet object callback in a small break-rack alcove inside Service Ring Kappa: the alcove is built into curved engineered Bloom shell plating, with consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate glimpsed behind ribbed supports, amber industrial work light, scuffed deck plates, cable trays, route bolts, and nearby pipe-and-panel manifold hardware. A battered recycler coffee mug with a fresh hairline crack sits on a narrow metal shelf beside patched gloves; Teth's repaired pressure cuff rests near a transparent oxygenation tube and soft harness loops; in the background, Nara's hand performs a twice-pause-third touch against a ribbed wall access panel while other workers watch indirectly from the edge of the alcove.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Quiet object callback in a small break-rack alcove inside Service Ring Kappa: the alcove is built into curved engineered Bloom shell plating, with consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate glimpsed behind ribbed supports, amber industrial work light, scuffed deck plates, cable trays, route bolts, and nearby pipe-and-panel manifold hardware. A battered recycler coffee mug with a fresh hairline crack sits on a narrow metal shelf beside patched gloves; Teth's repaired pressure cuff rests near a transparent oxygenation tube and soft harness loops; in the background, Nara's hand performs a twice-pause-third touch against a ribbed wall access panel while watchers at the alcove edge show clean gray numbered sleeves, brown-orange patched work jackets, magnetic boots, and hands resting near tool belts.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, dry anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and AU supervisor glass above the floor. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is the final visual memory: intimate, ordinary, small, and work-worn."
         ],
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@
       {
         "modifier_id": "formal_stoppage_visible",
         "trigger": "formal_stoppage == true",
-        "prompt": "Add a cold blue AU incident-log recording marker and workers halted in coordinated stillness.",
+        "prompt": "Add a cold blue AU incident-log recording marker and workers in gray engineered-worker skinsuits, brown-orange anchor-crew jackets, and cephalopod dry-operation rigs halted in coordinated stillness.",
         "apply_to_visual_scene_ids": [
           "pallas_formalize_stoppage",
           "pallas_classification_pressure",
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@
       {
         "modifier_id": "high_security_pressure",
         "trigger": "security_pressure >= 4",
-        "prompt": "Add sterile blue-lit security drones at the far hatch and make nearby workers tighten posture around vulnerable crew.",
+        "prompt": "Add sterile blue-lit security drones at the far hatch and make nearby workers in gray engineered-worker skinsuits and brown-orange anchor-crew jackets tighten posture around vulnerable crew.",
         "apply_to_visual_scene_ids": [
           "pallas_ilya_arrival",
           "pallas_formalize_stoppage",
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@
       {
         "modifier_id": "high_baseline_solidarity",
         "trigger": "baseline_solidarity >= 3",
-        "prompt": "Place Orrin and two baseline riggers shoulder-to-shoulder beside or slightly in front of the engineered seal technicians near the amber manifold, with anchor tools lowered horizontally at waist height and the dark crawl throat kept visible behind the formation.",
+        "prompt": "Place Orrin and two baseline riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts shoulder-to-shoulder beside or slightly in front of the clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians near the amber manifold, with anchor tools lowered horizontally at waist height and the dark crawl throat kept visible behind the formation.",
         "apply_to_visual_scene_ids": [
           "pallas_orrin_solidarity",
           "pallas_climax_decision_line",
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@
         "display_name": "Nara-7",
         "species_or_body": "engineered humanoid seal technician, BioDrone Standard labor line",
         "stable_visual_description": "Slender engineered humanoid worker with smooth androgynous features, close-cropped dark hair, pale gray-brown skin with faint subdermal route-interface lines at wrists and neck, and a clean gray numbered seal-technician skinsuit with a small BioDrone Standard batch tag. Movements are precise and economical, hands often flat against rails or wall panels.",
-        "silhouette_notes": "Still, narrow, and controlled; frequently framed by the manifold or other gray-suited engineered technicians.",
+        "silhouette_notes": "Still, narrow, and controlled; frequently framed by the manifold or other clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered technicians.",
         "do_not_change": [
           "gray numbered skinsuit",
           "BioDrone Standard batch tag",
@@ -1159,8 +1159,8 @@
       },
       "orrin_dax": {
         "display_name": "Orrin Dax",
-        "species_or_body": "baseline human dry-side rigger",
-        "stable_visual_description": "Broad-shouldered baseline human rigger in his late working years, light-brown weathered skin, close-cropped graying hair, rough stubble, and a pale frost scar along one side of his jaw. Wears a patched brown-and-orange dry-side work jacket, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and usually carries or rests near an old dark metal anchor hook and battered recycler coffee mug.",
+        "species_or_body": "baseline human anchor rigger",
+        "stable_visual_description": "Broad-shouldered baseline human rigger in his late working years, light-brown weathered skin, close-cropped graying hair, rough stubble, and a pale frost scar along one side of his jaw. Wears a patched brown-and-orange anchor-crew work jacket, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and usually carries or rests near an old dark metal anchor hook and battered recycler coffee mug.",
         "silhouette_notes": "Solid, guarded, slightly hunched from years of rail work; visually tied to anchor hooks, coffee, frost scars, and old tools.",
         "do_not_change": [
           "frost scar along jaw",

experiments/pallas-species-strikes/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold-clean-run.v0.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Selected path:
 
 1. Check Teth's zero-g maintenance harness.
 2. Log the refusal as a coordinated labor stoppage.
-3. Ask Orrin to put dry-side authority behind the refusal.
+3. Ask Orrin to put anchor-rail authority behind the refusal.
 4. Let Orrin front the safety demand while Lio protects Nara.
 
 Rendering note: this artifact may add connective narration and dialogue consistent with the selected path. The authoritative playable structure remains `examples/ink/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.ink`.
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ The engineered Bloom shell hummed through the deck plates before the shift bell,
 
 It was not a mine and not a factory floor, though Aeronautics Unlimited priced it like both when that helped. It was a built world turned slowly enough to fake down, and Kappa's seals were one of the reasons the air stayed on the inside. Lio's official job was maintenance coordination: making incompatible bodies, tools, schedules, and liability codes share one dangerous ring without killing each other before lunch. The unofficial job had worse hours and better people.
 
-Cephalopod crawl crews drifted in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that did not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs kept them alive in dry air, which was not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers clipped dry anchors along the outer rail and complained with the solemnity of a religious rite. Engineered seal techs waited by the manifold in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations made the system look civilized: a humidity credit that kept gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, break-table charts that translated three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
+Cephalopod crawl crews drifted in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that did not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs kept them alive in dry air, which was not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers clipped anchor hardware along the outer rail and complained with the solemnity of a religious rite. Engineered seal techs waited by the manifold in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations made the system look civilized: a humidity credit that kept gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, break-table charts that translated three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
 
 The yard was normal. That was the first horror.
 
 Nara-7 stood at the Kappa manifold with the other engineered seal technicians, each gray skinsuit numbered for a task stream instead of a family line. She touched the wall twice, paused, and touched it again with two fingers spread wide. AU called that retained route behavior. Lio had watched enough shifts to know a warning when it learned manners.
 
-Orrin Dax's dry-side crew worked the anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They were baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Orrin complained like a man trying not to notice he was scared.
+Orrin Dax's anchor crew worked the anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They were baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Orrin complained like a man trying not to notice he was scared.
 
 Teth Inkwise hung in a dry-operation support harness, four arms managing valves while the rest of the body floated inside compression loops and oxygenation tubes. One cuff had rubbed a pale groove into the mantle where the padding thinned out months ago. Teth never mentioned it. The cephalopod crew kept the service lungs alive in spaces built by companies that modified their bodies to survive dry air, tight corners, and procurement's moral imagination.
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The joke landed dry. Teth's eyes stayed on the pressure ghost beneath the glass,
 
 The service lung diagram flickered under one of Teth's arms. If Kappa went hard red, AU would discover exactly how much of its schedule lived in equipment designed for bodies it refused to honor.
 
-Across the ring, Orrin Dax checked dry anchors with the sour devotion of a man who expected the future to arrive carrying someone else's invoice. He had a rigger's shoulders, a frost scar along the jaw, and the kind of coffee mug that had survived more restructurings than some families.
+Across the ring, Orrin Dax checked anchor hardware with the sour devotion of a man who expected the future to arrive carrying someone else's invoice. He had a rigger's shoulders, a frost scar along the jaw, and the kind of coffee mug that had survived more restructurings than some families.
 
 "Soft-sleeves get a humidity credit again?" he asked without looking up.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The board did not understand a ritual unless someone billed it.
 
 Nara's voice was small and clear. "No blind crawl. Kappa remembers cutting Rell. We remember Rell."
 
-The dry-side riggers went quiet. Teth's harness valves clicked once, then stopped.
+The baseline anchor riggers went quiet. Teth's harness valves clicked once, then stopped.
 
 Ilya arrived fast enough to prove she had been watching. The room changed shape around her: not physically, not enough for a safety board, but enough for every worker to know the yard had stopped being a place where a problem could be fixed quietly.
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ The Awakened Labor Front mirror sat outside AU's incident board: a recognition c
 
 The formal log had already narrowed everyone's exits. Ilya could punish a stoppage, but she could not pretend no one named it.
 
-Orrin's dry-side crew waited by the anchors. Their faces said what nobody wanted to admit: if engineered workers were people, then baseline workers had been angry at the wrong enemy and still poor afterward.
+Orrin's anchor crew waited by the anchors. Their faces said what nobody wanted to admit: if engineered workers were people, then baseline workers had been angry at the wrong enemy and still poor afterward.
 
 The Kappa pressure-margin clock was still kind. Not generous, but kind enough to make choices real.
 
@@ -146,13 +146,13 @@ Kappa went red.
 
 The seal assembly shuddered hard enough to make dust jump from old bolt heads. There was no bypass bridge waiting in Teth's harness, only skill, bad margin, and the hideous corporate optimism that calls a known weakness pending review. Nara's hands stayed on the rail, flat and deliberate. No one had the luxury of a pure victory.
 
-Orrin's dry-side crew cleared the anchor rail without waiting for an AU order.
+Orrin's anchor crew cleared the anchor rail without waiting for an AU order.
 
 "Stop," Ilya snapped.
 
 Orrin stepped forward before Lio had to spend Nara again.
 
-"Dry side refuses the crawl," he said. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in that throat, superintendent, put the board in first."
+"Anchor rail refuses the crawl," he said. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in that throat, superintendent, put the board in first."
 
 For one bright second, the old lie broke: baseline and engineered labor were not natural enemies. They were different answers to the same invoice.
 

prompts/visual-scene-continuity-reviewer.md

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ This reviewer does not judge clean-run prose receipts. Clean runs can be useful
 debugging mirrors, but they are not the player experience and they are not the
 artifact this prompt reviews.
 
-Be strict. A visual plan that says "cephalopod support rig," "wet-service
-cradle," or "dry-operation harness" without explaining what the viewer should
-see is not an image prompt. It is a lore password.
+Be strict. A visual plan that says "cephalopod support rig," "anchor crew,"
+"engineered technicians," or "dry-operation harness" without explaining what
+the viewer should see is not an image prompt. It is a lore password.
 
 ## Inputs
 
@@ -75,10 +75,11 @@ the visual artifact.
   composition, stance, lighting, and state deltas, with forbidden assumptions
   handled by reviewer findings or validation rather than imagegen prompt text?
 - Are specialized terms translated into visible forms? For example, explain
-  what a cephalopod dry-operation harness or wet-service cradle looks like
-  according to the faction, location, and labor regime. An AU industrial yard
-  prompt should positively describe sparse productivity hardware, bare-minimum
-  life support, restraint geometry, and hard work lighting.
+  what a cephalopod dry-operation harness, baseline anchor rail, or engineered
+  seal-technician group looks like according to the faction, location, and
+  labor regime. An AU industrial yard prompt should positively describe sparse
+  productivity hardware, bare-minimum life support, restraint geometry, and
+  hard work lighting.
 - Are environment labels translated into visible forms? For example, explain
   what a manifold line, cavity yard, supervisor glass, or anchor rail looks
   like instead of treating the label as a picture.
@@ -98,6 +99,11 @@ the visual artifact.
 - Does each named visible character point to a stable visual identity ref, or
   does the scene prompt itself include enough description to render the person
   consistently?
+- Are visible unnamed groups described as drawable bodies instead of only
+  social labels? A prompt that says "riggers," "technicians," "guards,"
+  "workers," or "engineered crew" must include visible clothing, equipment,
+  body language, posture, scale, lighting, and placement, or point to an
+  explicit group visual reference.
 - Are character refs limited to characters actually visible in that frame,
   excluding absent, off-frame, merely mentioned, or object-represented
   characters?
@@ -202,6 +208,17 @@ Each finding must include:
 - Do not accept named characters as visual descriptions. "Lio Vale stands by
   the manifold" is not enough unless the visual plan provides a stable visual
   reference for Lio and the prompt assembly path says to include it.
+- Do not accept unnamed group labels as visual descriptions. "Orrin's riggers,"
+  "gray-suited technicians," "security," or "workers" is not enough unless the
+  prompt describes visible bodies, clothing, gear, posture, formation, and
+  position in the frame.
+- Do not accept terminology that contradicts the supplied lore, fixture brief,
+  or visual plan constraints. If a term implies an institutional geography,
+  species affordance, faction practice, or technology assumption that the
+  source context rejects, flag it as stale lore language and ask for concrete
+  work-zone, body-affordance, faction, or object language instead. Do not
+  hardcode one fixture's banned terms into future reviews; derive the problem
+  from the provided sources and artifact constraints.
 - Do not accept assembled prompts that include refs for characters not actually
   visible in the frame. The model will draw the bodies it is told about,
   because of course it will. Little beast has no stage manager.
@@ -241,6 +258,8 @@ Use these labels when applicable:
 - `missing_character_visibility`
 - `missing_character_design_ref`
 - `named_character_as_lore_password`
+- `unnamed_group_as_lore_password`
+- `stale_lore_language`
 - `off_frame_character_ref_in_prompt`
 - `continuity_note_used_as_prompt_text`
 - `missing_branch_visual_modifier`

state/evidence.jsonl

@@ -61,3 +61,4 @@
 {"ts": "2026-05-03T11:53:40+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added BFL image generation script for direct prompts and Ghostlight .visual.json plans. It reads BFL_API_KEY or gamecult-ops/bfl-api.txt, supports dry-run prompt receipts, submits FLUX.2 pro preview jobs, polls returned polling_url, downloads signed result.sample images immediately, and keeps generated outputs under ignored experiments/images/."}
 {"ts": "2026-05-03T12:00:19+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Updated BFL visual-plan rendering so modifiers use the intended two-pass continuity workflow: generate the base image from the base prompt, then edit that saved image with only the selected modifier prompt. Dry-run receipts now emit separate .base.prompt.txt and .edit.prompt.txt files."}
 {"ts": "2026-05-03T12:06:24+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine", "status": "ok", "note": "Fixed memory-dependent image prompts in the Pallas visual plan and added visual reviewer guardrails requiring base prompts to stand alone without prior-scene memory. Sandbox visual reviewer pass accepted the fixture with minor revisions; patched its remaining standalone-location and relative-modifier findings."}
+{"ts": "2026-05-03T12:14:28+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine", "status": "ok", "note": "Generalized visual reviewer guardrails for unnamed drawable groups and stale lore terminology, removed Pallas-specific policing from the reviewer, and revised the Pallas fixture to replace stale dry-side language with anchor-rail/baseline-anchor work-zone language plus concrete group descriptions."}