Media chain

One filament, three separate hands.

An artifact is made here, kept honest by technology that is not ours, and released with evidence at a boundary we do not control. Three stages, deliberately not one machine.

FORGE

Creates

Imagination becomes media

Forge owns the generation workflow: intent, prompt and reference roles, capability selection and the provider-neutral adapter boundary.

Stage 1 of 3Owned by Forge

INTEGRITY

Evaluates

Media may transform without losing what must persist

A stage, not a product. Lineage, protected regions and evidence are evaluated here by independent technology; CropZero may implement part of it, and no part of it belongs to Forge.

Stage 2 of 3Descriptive stage — no single owner

DIAMOND

Governs

The finished artifact leaves with evidence

Forge emits a provenance handoff at the trust boundary. Enforcement, verification and policy are decided there. Forge asserts no authority beyond the payload it hands over.

Stage 3 of 3Boundary owned elsewhere

Chain of custody

A sample handoff payload. Unknowns stay unknown — nothing is inferred to look complete.

Artifact identity: art-aetheris-0007 · video
Derived from: art-aetheris-0006
Transformation: 1. low-resolution draft → 2. master upscale
Generation identity: unknownno generation step was executed in this build
Evidence digest: unknowndigests are computed outside Forge
Sidecars: none attachedno external provenance tool has run
Rights standing: unknownno rights record was supplied
Protected regions: preserved
Producer time: 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z

Capability plan

Chosen from capability metadata only. No provider endpoint is contacted.

selectedgoogle.gemini-omni-1.1-flash.video

standingcandidate

capabilities

video.interpolate.firstLastFrame
reference.multimodalContinuity

Live calls · closed by default

No live provider is configured; every request is refused before invocation.

available live adapters: 0
unconfigured live adapters: 3
offline fixtures: 3
spend ceiling: unset

refused · live_calls_disabled — Live provider calls are disabled. Set FORGE_MEDIA_LIVE_CALLS=true to opt in. (provider contacted: false)

Continuity Loom

EXPERIMENTAL — not canon

These six anchors are a working experiment, not settled product canon. They may be renamed, merged or dropped. Each anchor can hold several references; translating them for any given provider happens outside this model.

CharacterEXPERIMENTAL

Who persists across shots: likeness, wardrobe, bearing.

WorldEXPERIMENTAL

Where it persists: place, architecture, era, light.

MotionEXPERIMENTAL

How movement persists: camera behaviour, pacing, physical logic.

VoiceEXPERIMENTAL

How it sounds: timbre, delivery, language, musical identity.

StyleEXPERIMENTAL

How it is rendered: palette, grain, lensing, graphic language.

ProvenanceEXPERIMENTAL

What travels with it: source lineage, sidecars, declared rights.

Provider standing

Metadata on a watch list. Deprecated and retired entries exist so old jobs can be flagged — they are never chosen by default, and nothing here has been exercised.

Provider	Standing	Sunset	Note
OpenAI Sora video generation	deprecated	2026-09-24	No Forge-canonical replacement. Any migration is an explicit human decision.
Google Imagen 4 family	retired	2026-08-17	Provider documents a successor family; treated as provider metadata only, with no hard-coded runtime migration.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (candidate)	candidate	—	Watch-list candidate capabilities. Not wired; no live call is made from Forge in this pass.
Lyria 3.5 (candidate)	candidate	—	Watch-list music candidate. Metadata only.
Runway (candidate)	candidate	—	Watch-list candidate for start/end-frame constrained generation and scene-linear mastering with a provenance sidecar.
fal / H3 Max (candidate)	candidate	—	Multimodal continuity references (image/video/audio). Provider-specific reference limits are deliberately NOT encoded in the canonical capability interface; they belong to an adapter's translation layer.
Agentic long-video understanding (candidate, inspection)	candidate	—	Inspection capability only. Must never be treated as a renderer, even if the same vendor also renders elsewhere.
Photoshop / Firefly masked edit (external benchmark)	benchmark	—	External benchmark profile for MUST_PRESERVE region behaviour: pixels outside the mask are expected to survive unchanged. Reference target for QA comparison; not a dependency and not selectable.