This is the real state machine every production moves through — nothing skips a gate, and nothing publishes itself.
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Human sign-off
Human gateLocked-in voice narrates every beat
Still-frame visuals + music/SFX mixed
Full cut assembled
10 automated checks
Human gateHuman sign-off
Human gatePackaged for YouTube Studio
Manual upload only
Human gateOne pass covers the whole script for scene descriptions — avoids beats repeating or contradicting each other's visuals, a real defect found and fixed this build.
DemonstratedThe channel's auditioned, locked-in voice narrates every beat with a short pause between beats and tuned stability settings, so a 7-beat video sounds like one take, not seven.
DemonstratedOne still-frame image per beat, generated under an explicit no-dense-text rule. No motion, pan or zoom — a deliberate decision, re-examined each cycle, not an unexamined default.
DemonstratedTen re-runnable checks (see Governance) must pass before a production can move to release.
DemonstratedA person approves release. The system prepares an upload package — it does not publish on its own, by design.
DemonstratedPerformance data is entered manually today. A live YouTube Analytics API pull is a planned, not built, capability.
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