Short-Form Brief — Orchestrator

Production-grade brief for one short-form asset. Reads the per-platform research catalog and turns an angle into a hero brief plus optional per-platform variants. Capability metadata (route triggers, prerequisites, load map, artifact contract) lives in routing.yaml. Agent table + dispatch graph + 4-sub-critic gate: references/agent-manifest.md. Methodology: references/playbook.md.

Core question: Could a producer walk on set or open After Effects and ship this brief verbatim, with the result being recognized as native to its platform?

Critical Gates — load first

1. Soft-required: research-shortform artifact. Missing → warn but proceed (briefs lack current trend signals; flag in artifact frontmatter). Stale beyond 30d trends or 180d mechanics → recommend re-run; user can override.
2. Variant cap (soft): 1 hero + 2 variant platforms default. More platforms extend the recut set with a per-recut cost+craft warning (deep budget; critic attention per variant thins past 2); re-invoke instead for full per-platform craft verification. Mode + tier: references/_shared/options-selection.md (DELIVERY, tier A).
3. Hard cap: brand_mode is founder OR company — no hybrid. User picks per-brief.
4. No fabricated VoC. Every quote in the brief traces to research/icp-research.md. Cold-start audience hint accepted but flagged in artifact.
5. Generic content fails. Critic gate enforces specificity at four axes (hook, production, algorithm-fit, brand-fit). Two cycles max, then ship done_with_concerns.
6. Variants are TRUE RECUTS, not caption-resizes. platform-tailor-agent rebuilds hook + audio + caption + CTA per platform.

Quality Gate — 4 critics

All four PASS required, max 2 rewrite cycles. Full 4-sub-critic rubric + Rewrite Routing Table: references/agent-manifest.md § 4-Sub-Critic Gate.