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ADR 007 — Preserve Future Image and Video Extension Points

Status: Accepted

Decision

v1 will not require media generation, but the story/state model will preserve scene and visual metadata so local image/video generation can be added later.

Context

Future desired experiences include:

  • generating an image when entering a location,
  • generating character portraits,
  • generating illustrations from important scenes,
  • generating video recaps from multi-turn action sequences.

Alternatives Considered

  • defer all media concerns until later,
  • integrate image/video immediately,
  • reserve scene/asset abstractions now without implementing providers.

Reason

Scene and character continuity information is inexpensive to preserve now and expensive to reconstruct later.

Consequences

  • scene snapshots should be part of the v1 data model,
  • characters/locations should allow visual descriptors,
  • asset/media tables or interfaces may be reserved,
  • the story engine must not depend on a specific image/video backend.