This project currently uses SKILLS/*/SKILL.md as role contracts. The next production mode can map those role contracts to a real subagent pipeline.
These stages should stay mostly serial because each one changes the contract for the next stage:
- Rights and source ingest.
- Narrative map and story bible.
- Visual bible style approval and core reference cards.
- Page story plan.
- Manga page script.
- Storyboard.
- Director briefs.
Each serial gate writes one canonical artifact and waits for validation or approval before downstream work starts.
Finished-page image generation can use multiple parallel art agents after all director briefs pass validation.
Use disjoint page ranges and disjoint write scope:
- Artist agent A:
chapters/chNN/director-briefs/page-001-director-brief.md->chapters/chNN/finished-pages/page-001.png - Artist agent B:
chapters/chNN/director-briefs/page-002-director-brief.md->chapters/chNN/finished-pages/page-002.png - Artist agent C:
chapters/chNN/director-briefs/page-003-director-brief.md->chapters/chNN/finished-pages/page-003.png
For larger batches, assign ranges such as pages 001-006, 007-012, and 013-018. No two art agents may write the same image, source text, QC note, or regenerated page.
reader-analyst: source understanding, narrative map, source trace.manga-story-writer: page story plan and variable page count.manga-script-writer: critical information, causality, dialogue, captions, SFX.storyboard-writer: panel grammar and readable page flow.manga-page-director: exact whole-page image2 brief with references and text placement.parallel art agents: generate assigned finished pages only.continuity-editor: inspect outputs across pages and request targeted regenerations.lettering-and-binding: fallback text repair, PDF, and CBZ.
Parallel art agents are not allowed to edit shared contracts such as page-script.json, storyboard.json, visual bible files, or other agents' pages. If an agent finds a script, character, or continuity problem, it writes a note under chapters/chNN/logs/ and stops that page for editor review.