Developer Guide

Dependency graph

Interactive map of the generation graph: pick anything you can edit and see which prompts, sheets, stills and clips go stale.

Every generated artifact stores a hash of the inputs it was made from. Staleness is never a flag we set: on every read we recompute the hash from the current inputs and compare. A mismatch is stale. A row with no stored hash is untracked and never stale. Versioned things (green border) keep every generation as a row and a pointer picks one. Renders record which version of a prompt or sheet they used, so selecting a different version is what makes them stale, not editing the text.

  • tracked
  • not tracked — a gap
  • not tracked, by design
  • seeded once, then yours
  • versioned
  • optional
  • goes stale
  • makes it stale
Dependency graphYou write and setLibrary · optional, reused across sequencesBibles · seeded from the script or the library, then yoursReferencesPromptsRendersCutThe scene text and its slugline, as split from your script. Heading, time of day, story beat and continuity tags are versioned with the text, so a stale shot names the field that moved.ScriptThe sequence frame shape.Aspect ratioThe render tier a clip is asked for.ResolutionThe LLM that writes prompts.Script modelThe model that renders sheets and stills.Image modelThe model that renders clips. Also decides which durations a shot can snap to and whether it can hear dialogue or take reference clips.Video modelThe model that renders the score.Music modelSeconds per shot, snapped to the video model.ShotdurationAnimate a rendered still, or render straight from the reference sheets. A shot can override the sequence setting.Start-framemodeDesign an ElevenLabs voice for each speaking character. Per-character override on the card.VoicesInclude the score in the cut.MusicAppend the dialogue lines and audio direction to the motion prompt when the video model can hear. Chosen per render in the scene editor.SFX &dialogueHow far a generation run goes: script, references, images, motion or music.Stop atA library person. Cast onto a character automatically at the Script stage or by hand; casting copies their look, performance and voice onto the character bible once. The character sheet keeps reading the talent: its description and default sheet are in the sheet hash, so editing either re-stales the cast character sheet.TalentA reusable location from the team library, matched onto a sequence location automatically or by hand. Its fields only reach a sequence through a regenerated reference image.LibrarylocationA team or system style in the catalog. Picking it copies its config onto the sequence; the catalog row is never read again.CatalogstyleExtracted from the script at the Script stage, rewritten by casting when a talent is matched, then yours to edit. Every change is a version, so a stale shot names the field that moved. A voice-only character (a narrator) has a row but never a sheet.CharacterExtracted from the script at the Script stage, linked to a library location when one matches, then yours to edit. Every change is a version, so a stale shot names the field that moved.LocationA prop, effect, sound or clip referenced by @token. Detected in the script at the Script stage or added by hand, then yours to edit.ElementThe look and motion config snapshotted onto the sequence: derived from the script by the auto style, or picked from the catalog. Every snapshot is a version, so a stale shot names the knob that moved.StyleThe lines spoken in one shot. Seeded by the shot-list call at the Script stage, then edited on the shot — the script's copy stays as the LLM's seed and is only read for a shot with no row yet. A scene's conversation is its shots in order, then each shot's lines in order, so there is no scene-level list to keep in step.Shot dialoguelinesThe talent as a sequence sees it. A cast character usually reuses this sheet as its own and always draws from it, so "the talent changed" means "the selected talent sheet changed".Talent sheetTurnaround sheet for a character in this sequence. When cast, it is usually the talent sheet reused; a costumed one is generated only when the role's clothing or features diverge from the talent. A run holds a claim: an edit to anything the sheet reads revokes it, so the run parks its result instead of landing it.CharactersheetA designed ElevenLabs voice for a speaking character. Bound on the clip like a character sheet on the still — the LLM never sees the id, so a voice change does not rewrite the motion prompt. Every write appends a row and moves the pointer; a row whose ElevenLabs slot has been freed is stamped released and can never be selected again.VoiceOne acted Text to Dialogue call, kept as the whole file it came back as — never joined, never copied per shot. The call speaks the conversation around the shots it was made for, so every turn is a reply to a line the model heard. Append-only with no selection of its own: shots point into it.Dialogue speech(whole file)The time range of a speech this shot speaks in. A speech adds a row for every shot it spoke: selected for the shots it was made for, left as an unselected context reading for the rest, so an edit to one shot re-points one shot. The selected row is cut to a file on shots.audioClips, and that clip's id is the row's id.Shot dialoguesectionThe library location as a sequence sees it: the location sheet draws from it and folds its hash in.Librarylocation refReference image for a location in this sequence. A run holds a claim: an edit to anything the sheet reads revokes it, so the run parks its result instead of landing it.LocationsheetThe text the still is rendered from. A scene of one shot gets it from the model; every clip of a multi-shot scene has it assembled from the shot spec.VisualpromptThe text the clip is rendered from. Assembled from the shot spec on a multi-shot scene, the same as the visual prompt.MotionpromptOne prompt for the whole sequence.Music promptThe rendered start frame for a shot.StillThe rendered video for a shot.ClipThe generated score.Music trackThe stitched MP4.Export

Still

generatedversioned — frame_variantsframe_variants.inputHash

The rendered start frame for a shot.

Counts

The check compares these. Change one upstream and this goes stale.

  • Selected visual prompt text
  • Image model
  • Aspect ratio
  • Selected character sheet versions. A visual prompt that names nobody still falls back to the scene continuity tags, so an off-camera sheet can stale the still
  • Selected location sheet versions
  • Element image URLs
  • For a tile picked from the 3×3 grid: the same list, as it stood when the grid was made

Does not count

Change these freely. Nothing goes stale.

  • Seed and size, unless set

Regenerate this and these go stale

Nothing downstream is tracked.

Goes stale when any of these change

  1. in the input hash — the selected prompt text; a tile picked from the 3×3 grid carries the prompt the grid was drawn from
  2. in the input hash
  3. by selected version — the selected sheet version id
  4. by selected version — the selected sheet version id
  5. in the input hash — the image URL
  6. via Visual prompt
  7. via Visual prompt — only a character this prompt names. An unwritten prompt reads the scene continuity tags (#2012)
  8. via Visual prompt — only a location this prompt names, else the scene slugline. An unwritten prompt also reads the scene extract (#2012)
  9. via Visual prompt
  10. via Character sheet — the talent sheet hash is folded into the character sheet hash
  11. via Character sheet — the talent's description and default sheet image and look, read by the sheet prompt
  12. via Location sheet
  13. via Talent sheet
  14. via Library location ref

Connected, but not tracked

  • not tracked, by design — checked against the model that rendered the still; a switch applies to the next render

What "Update all" regenerates

The depth picker is cumulative. Each rung includes the ones above it, and no rung ever creates an artifact that does not exist yet.

  1. 1.Prompts only — Rewrites stale visual and motion prompts. Nothing renders.
  2. 2.Prompts + images — Also re-renders a still that is stale, or whose prompt was just rewritten. Never renders a first still.
  3. 3.Prompts, images + dialogue — Also re-records a dialogue reading whose voice or lines moved. Never a first recording. Video stays for the next tick so the new take can be reviewed.
  4. 4.Prompts, images, dialogue + videos — Also re-renders a clip whose prompt, still, or dialogue changed in this run, or whose manifest already diverged. Never renders a first clip.
  5. 5.Everything, incl. music — Also rewrites a stale music prompt, then the track if one exists. Never a first track.