Studio Imagegen — frame spec to image

HARD RULES. Every generated image goes to $STUDIO_INBOX (default ~/Pictures/imagegen/_inbox), named <timestamp>_<model>_<what> (timestamp first, so the inbox sorts) — the renderer does this by default. And no model judges an image: never run image analysis, scoring or quality checks on generated output. Report model, prompt hash, size and cost; the user judges quality.

The studio image stage, driven from the terminal: compile a frame spec into its prompt, attach the spec's character reference plates, generate, save.

When to use

• Rendering any frame of a set from its frame spec.
• Re-rendering a frame after a canon or spec change.
• Generating an image from a verbatim prompt (no spec involved).
• Working out what an image costs before committing to a batch.

Hard rule