Silver Fern · Projection Program · Tier 3 · Standing Rules
We are not shipping AI-generated video yet. These rules exist so that the day the samples stop looking generated, the guardrails are already law — written while nobody is in a hurry.
No generated screens, panels, dashboards, or UI of any kind. Real product visuals come from the filmkit/cardfarm renders and get composited in. A generated screen is an invented capability by definition.
The Vol. 7 dawn law extends to generated media: silhouettes, hands, gloves, boots, headlights — never a face a viewer could mistake for a person, and never the likeness of any actual person, employee, or customer.
The /hmvs-style check: artifact scan (warped geometry, impossible plants, text-like glyphs), tone review, and a horticultural-accuracy pass — a greenhouse that would make a grower wince fails the gate even if it looks cinematic to everyone else.
Not per batch, not per program — per film. The sign-off names the clips used, their prompts, and the gate results. No standing approvals.
Model, prompt, generation date, and gate verdict live in a sidecar file next to every clip forever — clip.mp4.provenance.json. If we can't say where a frame came from, we don't use the frame.
First weekday of each month: generate three shots against the same Vol. 7 Cathedral storyboards every time — glass-01 "the nave" (one-point perspective down a glasshouse aisle), dawn-01 "headlights at the gate" (black, two headlight cones, a padlock chain), ages-05 "perennial" (a fern frond's full life cycle). Same three prompts each month so the comparison is clean. Results land in ~/sync/downloads/sf-creative/videos/ai-samples/YYYY-MM/ with a one-page verdict: does it still look generated, and what artifact gave it away.
The build trigger: the month a majority verdict says a shot would survive the media-safety gate unedited, Tier 3 gets scoped as real work. Until then it stays an hour a month.