Control reference — every knob

Everything tunable in the system, what it defaults to, and what changing it actually does. All of these live in Strategist → Control unless noted.

Knob	Where	Default	What it does
run_time / timezone	Schedule	06:00 America/New_York	when the daily run fires (countdown shows when automation is on)
automation_on	Schedule	off	the daily scheduler. Keep OFF until the memfs volume is confirmed on prod
live	Schedule	on	off = dry-run (no paid renders)
Run now	Schedule	—	fire today's run immediately with current settings
batch	Volume	30	roster looks per day
daily_budget	Volume	$3	hard stop for the day
innovate_pct	Innovation	100	% of roster looks that push new design (two axes rotate per look)
reasoning_model	Models	gemini-2.5-flash	compose LLM. gpt-5.4-mini renders 4 models — proven; don't
image_model	Models	imagen-4-ultra	render model
aspect_ratio / images_per_prompt	Render	16:9 / 1	frame + renders per look
render_budget	Render	$1.2	per-run stop
notify	Alerts	on	batch done / off-brand spike / budget hit
lab_batch	Lab page	12	Lab experiments per day; 0 parks the lab
lab_pct	(api)	40	ad-hoc /generate lab share (scheduler uses lab_batch)
Roster dials	Roster & Mix	—	per-item "1 in N outfits" targets, retire/reactivate, add; quota-aware cadence shown per row

Config lives in strategist_config.yaml on the memfs volume — Control edits persist across redeploys; pool edits dual-write (memfs + DB).