Direction

Direction turns the Magus's taste into a visual system that can guide several assets without flattening them into one prompt. It owns the answer to “what should this work feel and look like?”

A reviewable visual system

voidlight.establish_style_bible@1 can return a versioned style bible containing composition, shape, proportion, palette, material, lighting, camera, typography, motion, and exclusion rules where those dimensions apply. References support those decisions, but do not become instructions to imitate a named living artist or copy protected expression.

Direction separates four things that are easy to blur:

1. intent — the response the commission seeks;
2. observations — attributable properties seen in admitted references;
3. decisions — the Magus's chosen rules and controlled exceptions; and
4. tests — concrete checks that a candidate can pass or fail.

Provider wording, seeds, control settings, and exploratory candidates may help discover the system. They do not own it. A style revision changes only through an explicit forward decision, and accepted assets keep the exact direction revision under which they were reviewed.

Review and correction

A direction review returns findings against named rules rather than a vague request to “make it better.” One bounded repair may revise the direction or candidate through voidlight.revise_from_correction@1; the finding states which layer was wrong. Conflicting rules, an impossible target profile, or exhausted repair ends with an exact non-completion.

Calibration through voidlight.presenter_calibration@1 may compare how a presentation or viewer changes perception. Calibration evidence can adjust the direction; it never silently edits an accepted asset or proves that a display matches every consumer.

The result guides Assets and Motion. It carries creative constraints, not authority to generate, spend, export, publish, or change the brief.