Glossary

Look — one generated image: three models, three complete outfits, one designer's aesthetic, one colorway.

Manifest — the dealt recipe for a look before any text is written: the designer, colorway, and the three model outfits chosen from the roster.

Roster — the curated pools the engine draws from: designers, colorways, garment bodies, hair styles, and outfit templates. Managed in Strategist → Control.

Outfit template — a pattern for one model's outfit: which garment category is the hero (jacket, dress, top, vest) and which slots get filled around it.

Hero garment — the featured garment of a model's outfit. Its silhouette is always spliced verbatim into the prompt; innovation happens around it.

Scene template — the locked stage: seamless white backdrop, three models evenly spaced, ultrawide 16:9, full-length framing. Identical on every look by design; a validator flags any drift.

Innovation axes — the eight directions the engine invents along: collar architecture, closure systems, panel mapping, hem geometry, layering logic, texture pairing, hardware language, surface treatment. Two rotate per look.

Anti-repetition fence — construction phrases mined from recent looks that the next look is told not to reuse. Keeps "novel" from converging on yesterday's phrasing.

Grade — Shawn's verdict on a look or a single garment: outlier (winner), catalyst (spark worth evolving), on-brand (meets the bar), off-brand (violates the brand), ugly (unusable render), delete.

Birth certificate — the complete DNA record created when a look grades outlier / catalyst / on-brand: prompt, garments, designer×colorway, graded model slot, notes. The Lab's seeds.

Seed — a birth certificate waiting in the Lab's queue.

Kill phrase — a short banned phrase learned from an off-brand grade. Lands in the negative prompt of future renders and in the sanitizer.

Note — a learned observation scoped to a designer, colorway, garment, or universal. Type recipe = guidance the composing LLM reads; type kill_phrase = hard ban.

The Lab — the evolution arm: clones proven recipes, blends winning garment bodies into new hybrids, and runs frontier experiments. Has its own daily quota, separate from roster generation.

Evolution chain — seed → the experiments it spawned → the grades the descendants earned. Visible on the Lab tab.

memfs — the file-backed knowledge store: markdown files for pools, notes, vocabulary, and brand rules. Git-versioned on a persistent volume. The body of a file is the memory; the engine reads these files when composing.

Negative prompt / Avoid line — the exclusion list a render receives: base brand bans + the look's specific exclusions + learned kill phrases, as short noun phrases.

Segmentation / hitmap — per-garment masks over a rendered image so ReviewHub can attribute a click (and a grade) to one garment on one model.

Pipeline events — the observability table: every stage of the pipeline records ok/fail with the reason. Powers the Status panel and health alerts.