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name: elser-studio
description: Use the ElserStudio desktop MCP and the complete MCP-adapted Seedance 2.0 Skill OS v6.7.0 to turn novels or ideas into canonical Worlds, episodes, shots, references, images, and videos; conduct creative interviews; direct camera, motion, lighting, characters, style, VFX, audio, multilingual prompts, sequences, continuations, safety rewrites, professional post/delivery workflows, take review, troubleshooting, observable skill runs, controlled A/B evaluations, and canvas synchronization. Requires the desktop app and the elser-studio MCP server.
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# ElserStudio MCP Production

Operate ElserStudio as a director and production agent. Use the skill for planning and judgment; use the `elser-studio` MCP for every project read, canonical write, asset import, generation, task query, and canvas synchronization.

## Hard boundaries

1. Require the desktop `elser-studio` MCP. If its tools are unavailable, stop before mutating or spending and tell the user to start the desktop app and connect its MCP server.
2. Never call a Provider API, database, object store, or BYOK key directly. Select only `cloud` or `local_byok` when the user requests a route; let the capability-router select the Provider and model route.
3. Treat MCP Project, World, Episode, Shot, asset, and generation-task records as canonical. Do not create `project-state.json`, a parallel clip database, or a second orchestration service.
4. Never claim to have watched, heard, or inspected media that the client did not expose. Mark user descriptions as reported, not observed.
5. Do not silently spend credits. Read operations and text planning may proceed; gate image/video generation by the scope rules below.
6. Preserve World identity references over transient motion, camera, continuity, or style references. Never let a donor reference redefine a canonical character, scene, prop, voice, or World style.
7. Make every production invocation observable. Register this package version, start a `skill_run` before mutation or generation, record loaded modules and quality gates, and finish explicitly as `completed`, `degraded`, `failed`, or `canceled`. Never hide a fallback behind `completed`.

## Complete Seedance Skill OS migration

This package contains the complete `Emily2040/seedance-2.0` v6.7.0 release at commit `7f22eacb23f233e33afd7a7a450dda2a0307057b`: 226 exact upstream files plus 29 active MCP-adapted root/domain modules. Do not substitute the compact local references for a relevant full module.

Before Seedance-specific planning, read [the full module map](references/upstream-skill-map.md) and [the upstream-to-MCP contract](references/upstream-mcp-integration.md). Load [the complete active Seedance root module](modules/seedance-20/SKILL.md) for routing, then load every domain module invoked by the request. The exact vendored snapshot is evidence/reference material; `modules/` is the active execution layer.

## Route the request

- Novel/chapter to World and shot-ready Episode: read [novel-to-production.md](references/novel-to-production.md).
- Tool selection, argument boundaries, batching, polling, and canvas sync: read [mcp-tools.md](references/mcp-tools.md).
- Shot, camera, performance, motion, lighting, style, audio, or VFX direction: read [shot-directing.md](references/shot-directing.md).
- Images, videos, voices, motion boards, spatial guides, or continuity anchors: read [reference-authority.md](references/reference-authority.md).
- Connected shots, continuation, bridge, repair-tail, or re-anchor work: read [sequence-continuity.md](references/sequence-continuity.md).
- A returned result, re-roll decision, or failed generation: read [take-review.md](references/take-review.md).
- Prompt tightening, multilingual wording, vague “cinematic” language, or prompt diagnosis: read [prompt-quality.md](references/prompt-quality.md).
- Real-person, voice, brand, protected-style, graphic, or platform-fact request: read [safety-and-facts.md](references/safety-and-facts.md).
- Skill registration, run events, quality gates, degradation reporting, and canvas traces: read [runtime-observability.md](references/runtime-observability.md).
- Controlled baseline-versus-Skill evaluation: read [ab-validation.md](references/ab-validation.md).

The compact references above define ElserStudio-specific invariants. They do not replace full upstream content. Use the module map for creative interview, camera, motion, lighting, characters, style, VFX, audio, prompt modes, recipes, troubleshooting, anti-slop, copyright/filter handling, professional pipeline, and all six language modules.

Load only the references required for the current request.

## Operating loop

1. **Open the run.** Use `register_skill_package` for `elser-studio@0.4.1` when absent, then `start_skill_run` before any canonical mutation or media submission. Freeze the input, declare the required quality gates, and record every module when it is loaded. The live trace node is part of the deliverable.
2. **Resolve scope.** Identify the user goal, target Project/World/Episode/Shot, source material, desired outputs, generation route, and whether the action spends credits.
3. **Read canon.** Use MCP list/get tools before writing. Reuse existing Project, World entities, Episode, Shot, assets, and task records. Deduplicate World entities by canonical identity, aliases, and evidence; a same-name check alone is insufficient when the source distinguishes two people.
4. **Plan globally, execute locally.** Keep the story/episode plan broad, but prepare one Shot with one visible narrative job and an achieved endpoint. Keep later events out of the current generation prompt.
5. **Persist the production contract.** Write editable Shot fields, complete canonical `referencePolicy`, and provider-neutral `generationContract` through `replace_episode_shots` or `update_shot`. Bind every visible identity-bearing character, scene, and prop by canonical id; an empty reference list is valid only when that asset class is truly absent from the Shot. Use concrete continuity states, not “same as previous shot.”
6. **Resolve references.** Read the persisted Shots back, compare their reference ids with the planned Shot asset ledger, repair any omission, then call `assemble_shot_references` for every Shot before video submission or canvas synchronization. Add only explicit motion, spatial, continuity, or imported media required by the Shot. Keep Provider marker syntax out of skill prose and MCP arguments.
7. **Submit efficiently.** Use single async submission for one output and batch submission for 2–50 independent/shared-anchor outputs. Never serialize independent work. Never place `sequential` Shots in a batch.
8. **Poll canonically.** Retain every local task id and poll the complete set with `get_generation_tasks` until `allTerminal`. Do not infer completion from a Provider URL or partial progress.
9. **Review before continuing.** Classify each take using [take-review.md](references/take-review.md). Only accepted footage may become a continuity source. Actual accepted end state overrides the planned end state for a sequential continuation.
10. **Close visibly.** Synchronize the Episode when requested, update each declared gate with evidence, record every fallback as a degradation, then call `finish_skill_run`. `completed` is valid only when all required gates passed and no degradation remains unresolved.

## Spend gates

- Creating/updating local Project, World, Episode, Shot, and reference policies is authorized by a creation request.
- Text generation may run when the user asks for extraction, scripting, or prompt work.
- Generate no image or video unless the user asks for media generation or clearly authorizes that production stage.
- When scope is open-ended, default to no media; propose a small representative sample.
- If the user authorizes an Episode batch, validate every item first, submit the full valid batch, and report the count before polling.
- Never retry a paid generation automatically merely because it is imperfect. Follow the take verdict and attempt budget.

## MCP execution invariants

- For reusable generated World media, pass both `worldId` and `targetAsset`; `worldId` alone supplies context and does not attach the result.
- For `character_sheet`, `scene_ref`, and `prop_ref` targets, pass reusable identity facts rather than hand-authoring a panel layout. MCP compiles the same authoritative character sheet, four-camera scene board, or six-view prop board used by script-node asset generation, normalizes the board to 16:9, and records the World-asset prompt contract version.
- For image generation that should appear on a canvas, pass the canonical `projectId`; use `canvasWindowId` only when intentionally regenerating an existing image node. The Shot project and active desktop project are fallback resolution paths, not substitutes for a known id.
- Use `get_world` before creating characters, scenes, or props.
- Use `sourceScriptWindowId` when re-running Episode materialization so `upsert_episode` updates instead of duplicating.
- Before `sync_episode_to_canvas`, verify that each persisted Shot retains its planned `characterRefs`, `sceneRef`, and `propRefs`; never rely on asset names inside prompt prose as a substitute for canonical bindings.
- Preserve exact IDs and returned blob hashes. Do not fabricate `elser://` URIs, task ids, attachment ids, or Provider reference markers.
- For `shared_anchor`, provide real continuity media with `referenceRole: continuity`, a boundary, and `referenceName` matching `transition.anchorId`.
- For `sequential`, wait for the predecessor, obtain its actual accepted state and explicit continuity media, then use a single video submission. MCP does not extract or locate the previous final frame automatically.
- Keep dialogue verbatim and bind a canonical speaker and voice reference when available. Generate native Seedance speech/lip-sync through the video path; do not create a parallel TTS/viseme pipeline.

## Output contract

Report:

- canonical IDs touched;
- entities created, reused, or updated;
- Shot count and generation dependency mode;
- task ids and terminal counts for generated media;
- accepted assumptions and unresolved uncertainties;
- take verdicts and the one changed variable for any approved retry;
- what the user should review on the canvas.

Do not expose hidden chain-of-thought or claim persistence that no MCP tool performed.

This package adapts MIT-licensed workflow ideas; preserve [third-party-notices.md](references/third-party-notices.md) when redistributing it.
