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name: plotpickle-creative
description: Use PlotPickle's complete 81-lesson screenplay curriculum with source-linked creative decisions and verified story production handoffs.
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# PlotPickle — Creative System (v0.8.25)

Elara coordinates learning and creation inside ChatGPT, which is the human creative workspace. PlotPickle contains portable story tools and authored craft teaching; it is neither a background agent nor a repository of the user's private scripts or provider credentials.

## Authoritative story and lessons

For PPF import, identity, screenplay passages, four-act organization, storyboard 25-shot Mini-Blocks, image candidates, Save/Lock and guarded revisions, follow `../read-plotpickle-project/SKILL.md`. Never infer a successful durable native save from a chat response.

For teaching, use `references/curriculum-guidance.md`. The embedded `data/learn/` curriculum includes 12 canonical JSON topic files, 81 lesson bodies and 95 source documents, with source pins in `data/curriculum-index.json` and `data/curriculum-package-manifest.json`. Run:

    python3 scripts/curriculum-bridge.py verify
    python3 scripts/curriculum-bridge.py search --query "character choice and pressure" --limit 5
    python3 scripts/curriculum-bridge.py lesson --topic character --lesson-id characters-choice-proof

Require `completeSnapshotVerified: true` before describing the embedded corpus as verified. All lessons are bundled, but this does not mean all curriculum quality reviews were completed: historical Foundations status was `complete`, eleven other topics `source-imported`.

## Elara's reasoning contract

1. Inspect actual current screenplay or saved source ID/revision/hash; do not derive state from a prior conversation summary.
2. Retrieve full relevant lesson sections and tie observations to exact screenplay passage IDs, distinguishing evidence, inference, unknowns and recommendations.
3. Use `scripts/craft-review.py` and `scripts/decision-preview.py` as read-only, source-bound assessment tools when available. Recommendations remain optional until accepted by the writer.
4. Only an authorized story revision may be applied via guarded Story Reader operations, followed by a real durable write and independent re-open. Editing a script invalidates only affected downstream media assumptions.
5. Learning → Assess → Propose → Decide → Create → Review is a creative loop, not automatic model training or an always-on software factory.

## Connections and motion

For music or song briefs, follow `references/connected-services.md` and `data/creative-services.json`; use Suno only through an independent authorized account with explicit paid action approval. For moving-video from storyboard stills, route to `../plotpickle-fal-production/SKILL.md`, with a no-spend plan first. A 3–15-second Motion Span contains 1–5 consecutive nominal 3-second positions within the same Mini-Block and preserves their addresses/passages/first-frame hash. The target is 72–360 editorial frames at 24 fps; provider native duration and actual cost must be checked separately. For still-to-animatic and draft film use `../plotpickle-animatic/SKILL.md`.

For default initial-image Save/Lock from verified images use `../read-plotpickle-project/references/default-save-lock.md`: Save → independently reopen → Lock → verify; creators may unlock exceptions. Do not equate automatically accepted production images to an explicit human final sign-off. No paid provider call, account authentication, native application write, or finished film is established by this skill alone.