matier-boss

What it does

Runs the intake for a new campaign, then calls each agent in the chain in order: research, identity, character if the work needs a human model, art direction, image, motion, caption. Writes the brief, the campaign log and a memory file it updates after every handover, so a campaign that stops halfway resumes from the exact step instead of restarting. Stops at eight named intervention points and waits for a human answer at each, and enforces three rules the whole chain inherits: the identity file names the direction, only the two image agents write an image prompt, only the motion agent writes an animation prompt. It is the one agent here allowed to call other agents, and its own file records what a single spawn cost in tokens, which is the argument for not doing it casually.

When to reach for it

When a new campaign lands and nothing has been written yet, and you want the sequence run in order rather than picking agents one at a time and losing track of what owes what. Also when work comes back rejected and you need to re-enter at the right step instead of starting over.

What it needs

The rest of the chain installed under the same agent names, plus a studio rules file and a memory file it reads before anything else. Both of those are his.