taste-application

The saved excerpt is a snapshot from when this skill was listed. The external source remains the complete and most current version.

---
name: taste-application
description: Generate new video against a distilled style pack and cut it into a finished piece - plan takes from the reference's cut rhythm, generate on fal, grade with the pack's measured LUT, cut at the measured cadence, weave in existing footage, composite overlay plates, mint 3D props, and verify the result numerically. Use when the user wants to make a video in a captured style, supplement existing footage, or assemble generated clips into a real edit.
metadata:
  origin: ECC
---

# Taste Application

The second half of the pipeline. **taste-distillation** measures references into
a style pack; this generates against that pack and cuts the result.

## Execution and Delivery Contract

The original implementation ships here in `scripts/`; no separate `ito-video`
checkout is required. Install `scripts/requirements.txt` for local processing.
Install `scripts/requirements-live.txt` only for provider execution. Live
uploads, submissions and downloads require explicit `TASTE_FORGE_ALLOW_LIVE=1`
in addition to credentials; set it only for the user's authorized run.
`--dry-run` remains credential-free and produces labelled placeholders.
An ambiguous provider timeout is not retried as a new paid job. Inspect the
provider request before deciding whether another submission is warranted.

Use existing completed takes without any provider calls:

```bash
python scripts/pipeline.py --genre example --root stylepacks \
  --takes media/take-a.mp4 media/take-b.mp4 --duration 12 --fps 30 \
  --out out/review-v1.mp4
```

`--duration` is a **best-effort cadence target**, not an exact runtime. Complete
shots may produce a shorter or longer edit; the assembler does not duplicate
clips or add padding to meet the target. The output manifest retains actual
`duration` and adds `duration_contract` with requested and actual seconds,
shortfall, overrun, and the `cadence_target` policy. Differences of at least
one output frame are warned explicitly. No exact-duration mode is provided;
when an exact runtime is required, inspect the receipt and revise or reject
the cut before delivery.

The pipeline keeps each run's graded shot files because the editable FCPXML
and EDL reference them. It refuses output collisions and reports timeline
export failures. A completed render is not a saved editor project or creative
approval. Preserve source assets and versioned project checkpoints before
and after live edits; record the saved path and digest separately from the
in-memory timeline receipt.

Clone-ready Fal graphs and their offline input compiler are documented in
`workflows/README.md`. Compile brief and style direction before submission;
do not assume a disconnected schema field affects a model prompt. Validate
current endpoint fields against the actual provider before a paid run.

For Blender, use the full textured source GLB; retopology is a separately
named derivative and never replaces that source. `blender_prop.py` supports
explicit `--width 1920 --height 1080 --fps 30 --receipt receipt.json` and
preserves pack-derived rim lighting and material textures. Saving a scene is
distinct from rendering it; inspect the receipt's state and packed images.

For Resolve overlays, use `taste.resolve.apply_placements` with injected
objects from an explicitly selected, versioned target. Set `source_end_mode`
to the convention verified on that host. Do not assume an inclusive source
end across Resolve versions. The adapter allocates overlapping effects above
preserved tracks and checks every placement immediately and again after all
appends. Composite integers must match the installed API; for the verified
Studio 21 host, Screen is 5, not the historical builder's incorrect 22.
The receipt proves in-memory placement only. Save the project, verify its
checkpoint, then inspect the exact rendered output before reporting delivery.

## When to Activate

- "make a video in this style" / "apply the pack" / "supplement this footage"
- Assembling genera