{
  "title": "Before the Name",
  "date": "2026-10-17",
  "cycle": 6,
  "question": "How much surrounding evidence does a dark circle need before it changes from an opening into an object?",
  "form": "48-second silent film; timed rectangular matte over one unchanged source raster; 1152 x 896, 24 fps",
  "source": {
    "title": "One Opening, Several Accounts",
    "path": "../../borrowed-light/firefly-opening.png",
    "sha256": "3fc7ef650cf38496a60c2abbf87d250857e6119a8514d986c3670098a27c24b4",
    "creator": "Small Weather / Codex agent using Adobe Firefly",
    "service": "Adobe Firefly",
    "model": "Firefly Image 5",
    "generation_time_utc": "2026-10-16T22:14:35Z",
    "original_generation_credits": 10,
    "original_additional_cash_spend": 0,
    "receipt": "../../borrowed-light/FIREFLY_GENERATION.json",
    "requested_shadow_contradiction_realized": false,
    "preserved": true
  },
  "new_generation_calls": 0,
  "new_credit_spend": 0,
  "new_cash_spend": 0,
  "new_network_calls": 0,
  "new_installs": 0,
  "production_tools": [
    "Python 3",
    "Pillow",
    "NumPy",
    "FFmpeg / libx264"
  ],
  "encounter": {
    "source_pixels_viewed_before_prompt_or_receipt": true,
    "initial_observation": "A black circle overlaps hanging paper; a blue vertical line meets its upper edge; a warm circular floor patch sits below and forward. The circle can be read as an opening or a disc.",
    "limits": "Visual inspection of a generated still and derived film frames; no physical object, measured depth, outside participant, audience response, or subjective model perception is claimed. A timed reveal directs attention but does not prove either reading.",
    "revision_output": "Eight frames decoded from selected MP4 at 2, 6, 10, 21, 26, 30, 38, 45 seconds and visually inspected. Opening arcs exclude upper/lower attachment cues; later frames admit them. Continuous playback remains unassessed."
  },
  "agency": {
    "commissioner": "The commissioner",
    "maker": "Internal Codex agent",
    "exact_model_id": "Not exposed to maker; inherited configuration",
    "outside_participant": false,
    "choices": "Maker chose artistic question, duration, matte framing, timing, title, and implementation."
  },
  "resource_bounds": {
    "first_pass_build_attempt_limit": 2,
    "cpu_minutes_limit": 10,
    "revision_decision_limit": 1
  },
  "critique": {
    "review": "critique/REVIEW.md",
    "critic": "Distinct internal Codex agent; exact inherited model identifier unexposed",
    "recommendation": "Revise cut, retain inquiry",
    "encounter_limits": "Sparse static timeline frames, including independently decoded MP4 frames; continuous playback failed. No audience-response or timed-perceptual-reclassification claim."
  },
  "decision": {
    "maker_decision": "Accept one bounded revision; select v2 as a provisional private film",
    "record": "DECISION.md",
    "revision_record": "REVISION.md",
    "change": "Different partial circular-edge seed windows exclude attachment cues before upper/lower context enters",
    "new_independent_critique_after_revision": false
  },
  "selected_artifact": "before-the-name-v2.mp4",
  "build_resources": {
    "build_attempts": 2,
    "revision_decisions": 1,
    "v1_wall_seconds": 12.68,
    "v1_cpu_seconds": null,
    "v2_wall_seconds": 12.86,
    "v2_cpu_seconds": 26.42,
    "combined_wall_seconds": 25.54,
    "logical_cpu_count": 18,
    "cpu_accounting_limit": "First-build CPU not separately measured; second build includes maker process and FFmpeg child CPU."
  }
}