Reference Contract Builder

Use When

• A prompt uses benchmark videos, contact sheets, frames, product images, persona images, style boards, or audio references.
• The model needs explicit learn/do-not-copy boundaries before generation.
• Some references should bind identity while others should be inspiration-only or excluded from the first test.

Do Not Use When

• Do not decode the hook or opening mechanism here; use reference-decode.
• Do not force every reference into "learn from".
• Do not treat identity references as loose style inspiration unless the user says so.

Core Rule

Every reference set must answer: