CONTINUITY & IDENTITY
Pre-Spend Trust
No unchecked plan reaches production.
“Every dispatch earns permission to spend.”
Compilation Governance is the trust boundary between a finished shot plan and paid generation. Every dispatch passes deterministic checks before it can reserve a credit or reach a provider.
Named ScriptIR lint passes and PromptAuditor blockers inspect the compiled structure. Byte budgets keep payloads within their production contract. Preflight confirms that the chosen model, reference state, duration, and prompt plan agree. Blocking findings fail closed.
Only a ready plan can reserve spend, and reservation happens before dispatch. The result is an inspectable chain of decisions: what was compiled, what passed, what was blocked, what was held, and what was actually sent.
COMPILATION GOVERNANCE — Gate excerpt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IR LINTS Passed PROMPT AUDIT No blocking findings BYTE BUDGET Within contract REFERENCE Ready PREFLIGHT Plan and dispatch agree RESERVATION Held before routing ROUTING Permitted [Gate names and status only. Rule logic and provider payload redacted.]
Representative structure from a StoryDirector compilation. Sensitive grammar is intentionally omitted.
Director's Notes
A polished interface is not a production guarantee. A production guarantee is the moment the system refuses to spend on incomplete work.
Compilation Governance makes that refusal part of the architecture. Technical evaluators can see the contract: deterministic checks, bounded payloads, fail-closed routing, and money reserved only for a dispatch that has earned it.
Classification
Deterministic, fail-closed governance
Named Gates
ScriptIR lint, PromptAuditor, byte budget, reference readiness, generation preflight
Dependencies
DirectorLogic™, SRC™, Reference Identity™, ProdScale™
Outputs to
Credit reservation and provider routing
Spend Contract
Reserve before dispatch; block before spend
Experience Compilation Governance in action.