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name: imagegen-production-director
description: Direct serious multi-image production with Codex's built-in image generation, including identity and composition anchors, brief and reference planning, controlled revision, lineage, contact sheets, manifests, and project packaging.
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# Imagegen Production Director

Direct the production loop around image generation. Treat strong outputs as selected production assets with lineage and acceptance criteria, not lucky prompt results.

## Establish The Production Contract

Confirm or infer the deliverable types, count, aspect ratios, destinations, creative brief, exact text or brand elements, continuity requirements, hard gates, project location, and required receipts. Proceed on reversible defaults; ask before changing direction materially or spending a large generation allowance.

## Assign Reference Roles

Inspect decisive references and give each one a job: edit target, identity authority, product authority, wardrobe or environment reference, composition reference, lighting reference, style reference, or approved continuity anchor. State what must remain fixed and what may change.

## Build Anchors Before Derivatives

When a character, product, environment, composition, or graphic language must recur, create and approve a canonical anchor first. Record its fixed traits and use it on every derivative. Do not let each newest output quietly become the new identity authority.

## Plan And Generate

Create a compact asset matrix with stable IDs, intended use, framing, prompt concept, reference roles, invariants, deliberate variation, and acceptance criteria. Keep early waves small. Vary one meaningful axis at a time and generate important aspect ratios natively.

## Select, Repair, And Package

Review outputs together for drift as well as individually for craft. Prefer bounded edits when the structure is sound; regenerate when identity, anatomy, product geometry, or composition is fundamentally wrong. Package approved assets with clear filenames, prompts, references, lineage, and an honest manifest of accepted and rejected work.

## Guardrails

Do not call a green-background image transparent. Do not apply generated logos or exact copy when deterministic typesetting is required. Do not scale a run from an unapproved anchor. Do not report tool success as visual acceptance.