brief-builder (formerly intention-builder)

What it does. Interrogates a filmmaker in numbered rounds, every question carrying a recommended answer, until nothing about the film is silently assumed: intention, ending, look and feel, camera, lens, light, palette, costume, performance, beats, sound, deliverables. Then it checks every answer against the others for contradictions and writes ONE markdown brief (PDF on request) carrying paste-ready cast, location and style tokens.

Why it exists. So you define the style, the look and what you want to say once, and never re-explain it to the next skill or the next session. Every downstream skill reads the brief first.

Generates nothing. No images, no prompts for a model. That starts at reference-builder.

Input	an idea, a vague brief, a reference film, "make it cinematic"
Output	<project>-intention.md — the brief; optional PDF
Feeds	reference-builder, action-builder, mograph-builder, remotion-builder
Spends	nothing

Files

• SKILL.md — the interview protocol, the two gate questions, the coherence pass
• references/question-tree.md — the full question bank by route (film · commercial · explainer …)
• references/look-library.md — named looks with the camera, light and palette each implies
• references/format-archetypes.md, handoff-formats.md, coherence-check.md
• scripts/lint_intention.py — lints a brief for holes and contradictions before handoff
• assets/ — brief template and PDF styling

Setup

None. Python 3 for the linter only.