- HARD CANON: preserve unless deliberately revised.
- SOFT DIRECTION: preferred tendency; variation allowed.
- EXAMPLE, NOT CANON: illustrates a rule only.
- UNDEFINED / DO NOT RESOLVE: deliberate mystery.
- PRODUCTION RULE: implementation constraint; outranks concept-art spectacle.
- Amended D-289 PLACEHOLDER: a name or story that stands in until the owner replaces it. Use it, but do not build lore on its exact wording.
- Amended D-289 UNSPECIFIED: the owner has left it open on purpose, not as a mystery; nobody has decided. An agent may make a conservative temporary choice but must not turn it into canon.
Precedence: current asset brief → hard canon → production rules → canonical visual references → soft direction → examples → generic genre assumptions.
Written canon overrides mistakes in generated images. A reference may be canonical for one property and non-canonical for another. If something is undefined, AI may make a conservative temporary asset choice but must not turn it into new world canon.
Absence of explanation is not missing lore.