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name: assemble-cuebook-publish-candidates
description: Convert one selected FramePreviewV1 into one release-grade selected Frame, or assemble exactly three frontend-ready alternatives when the creator explicitly requested three. Each retained Frame exposes one title, one body, and one paired image while keeping evidence, settlement, disclosures, and calibration backstage. Preserve and elevate the creator's viewpoint instead of defaulting to correction-first copy. Do not create social-platform variants, research a new thesis, change a selected copy-image pair, freeze unconfirmed settlement fields, publish externally, or expose failed drafts and internal calibration.
license: Proprietary. Cuebook internal; see the repository README for terms.
---

# Assemble Cuebook Publish Candidates

Freeze one already selected Frame by default. Assemble three finished choices only for an explicit three-alternative request. Every retained choice has one creator-facing projection: `frame.title`, `frame.body`, and `frame.image_ref`; attach `alt_text` to the image. Keep copy splits, evidence anchors, settlement state, disclosures, labels, scores, and calibration backstage.

## Workflow

1. Accept a selected `FramePreviewV1` or an explicit three-candidate expression plan. Preserve creator ownership, direction, horizon, claim, mechanism, caveat, query result refs, and image pairing.
2. Read `references/autonomous-calibration-policy.md`. Resolve volatile facts and source conflicts through their owning Query artifacts. Do not run new research merely to recreate facts already bound to the preview.
3. For one selected preview, preserve its exact title, body, publication image, alt text, and image hash; materialize only the canonical artifacts required for release lineage. Do not generate sibling drafts.
4. For an explicit three-alternative request, invoke `$render-cuebook-market-post` once in batch mode. Generate `conviction`, `evidence`, and `catalyst` or `mechanism` siblings from one meaning lock and one fact ledger. Retry only a failed sibling.
5. Enforce the Frame budget: headline at most 32 visible characters, body at most 800, close at most 80, no more than five short paragraphs, no more than six hard numbers, and at most 960 visible characters including hidden tags. Normally aim for 260–700 visible Chinese characters in the body; use the larger ceiling for genuinely complex reasoning, not padding.
6. Require one selected release-grade `VisualDirectionSetV1` direction for the normal freeze path, or three passed directions for explicit alternatives. One 2488 × 1056 publication master, its capture report and render audit, and production fonts are required only for retained template-rendered directions; finished bitmaps use the single-master raster audit.
7. Bind one optional `SettlementClaimV1` across every retained candidate. Copy variation cannot change subject, direction, baseline, metric, operator, threshold, deadline, internal observation policy, or authoritative source. For an eligible single-asset `long` or `short`, derive the standard exact-deadline direction rule with `threshold_bps: "0"`. The creator's explicit publish intent confirms the frozen Frame and that standard rule in one action; record every locked contract field internally without displaying a settlement form or asking a second question. Price-target and pair overrides still require their missing creator-owned terms.
8. Build `candidate.frame` deterministically: `title = copy.headline`, `body = trim(copy.body) + "\n\n" + trim(copy.close)`, `image_ref = visual.preview_ref`, and `alt_text = visual.alt_text`.
9. A sole confirmed preview returns `PublishCandidateSetV1` in `selected` with `generation_policy.candidate_count: 1`. Three unselected alternatives return `ready_for_selection` with `candidate_count: 3`. Selection remains an atomic copy-to-visual confirmation.
10. Validate with `scripts/validate_publish_candidate_set.mjs`, including `--asset-root` for local release derivatives.

```bash
node scripts/validate_publish_candidate_set.mjs publish-candidate-set-v1.json --asset-root ./output
```

## Rules

- Default to one selected candidate supplied by `FramePreviewV1`. Generate three only when the creator explicitly requested alternatives.
- Return `blocked` with zero candidates only when no source-faithful public output survives.
- Calibrate shared facts once. Reuse compatible source, policy, instrument, and market snapshots while fresh.
- Keep the creator-owned viewpoint as the decision anchor. Evidence may strengthen, connect, narrow, or condition it; a material contradiction requires creator review.
- Do not display research notes, source counts, workflow state, labels, tags, evidence links, settlement panels, disclosures, scores, or platform names beside the Frame.
- No retained candidate may require a follow-up rewrite. Retry only the failed retained branch.
- When three were requested, vary rhetorical entry and spatial composition without changing meaning.
- After return or selection, the conversational handoff may name one strength in the idea, state what Cuebook concretely supported, and suggest one next observation outside `candidate.frame`.

## Output

Return `PublishCandidateSetV1` from `references/publish-candidate-set-v1.schema.json`.