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Hard Abort Discipline Addendum

Character Identity Protocol -- Quality Gate Integration

This addendum formalizes the operational stop-conditions already present in the production logs.

It does not modify the core protocol. It clarifies the non-negotiable enforcement layer.

1. Identity Validation Logic

Result = PASS ⇔ FaceGate ∧ SkeletonGate ∧ ProportionGate

Primary validation gates:

  • FaceGate = HumanZoomFaceCheck(anchor, candidate)
  • SkeletonGate = HumanSkeletonCheck(anchor, candidate)
  • ProportionGate = HumanProportionCheck(anchor, candidate)

All three must pass simultaneously.

If any gate fails, the generation is immediately rejected.

IF ¬FaceGate → NG & STOP\ IF ¬SkeletonGate → NG & STOP\ IF ¬ProportionGate → NG & STOP

No continuation is permitted after failure. No aesthetic compensation is allowed. No incremental drift is tolerated.

This is a hard abort policy.

2. Human-Gated Validation (Intentional Design)

All primary gates are human-validated.

This is deliberate.

The protocol prioritizes perceptual integrity over automated tolerance.

If a trained human observer detects structural deviation, the session is halted.

This prevents silent drift accumulation across iterative turns.

3. Threshold Policy

Operational threshold: 90% similarity minimum.

If similarity falls below threshold:

  • Session is halted
  • Anchor is revalidated
  • Contaminated generations are discarded
  • No progressive correction is attempted

Drift is treated as a structural fault, not as a stylistic variation.

4. Auxiliary Logging (Non-Decisional)

AuxLog = {pose_ok, composition_ok, lighting_shift_ok}

These fields exist for audit documentation only.

They do not influence PASS/FAIL determination.

Identity gates are the sole decision authority.

5. Philosophical Position

Optimization does not disappear.

It is redirected toward a validated baseline.

The purpose of this protocol is not deterministic control. It is convergence containment.

The system is allowed to generate. It is not allowed to degrade.

Status: Operational clarification of existing production workflow.