mascot-candidate-renderer

# Mascot Candidate Renderer Render the fixed A/B/C candidate set; do not add useful-looking extras. ## Input contract For the first pass require an intake-ready brief, three complete art-direction records and a valid fixed `output_contract`; no user approval of text directions is required. For a revision require the affected label, complete revised art-direction record and valid one-item revision contract. Validate both through the first existing helper path: `../../scripts/workflow_state.py` in the source monorepo, or `../mascot-ip-studio/scripts/workflow_state.py` when this node is installed as a top-level Skill. ## Render contract 1. Build prompts with the repository helper at `../mascot-design-director/scripts/design_director.py`. 2. Preserve subject, declared subject class, artistry plan, recognition plan, anatomy plan, scene-capability plan, silhouette, proportion, signature feature, memory hook, personality, palette, material and explicit keep/avoid locks. 3. Generate exactly A/B/C as three separate complete 1:1 IP images, one per art direction, directly after planning. During revision regenerate only the affected label. 4. Never make an anchor image, turnaround, three-view sheet, alternate-pose sheet or derivative pack. Never import such a bundle from another image/character Skill. 5. Each candidate has one complete uncropped full-body subject, safety margins, no hand-held prop, backpack, scene, text, logo, watermark or second subject. Its support structures and manipulation appendage must be separately visible and readable; equivalent non-human hands such as claws, wing-hands, fins or tentacles are allowed when they visibly support gripping. Render the canonical presentation front-primary with only a slight turn and an upright self-supported stance defined by the direction; do not add a human bipedal skeleton. Preserve one global natural-or-redesigned surface system; an optional tail must be singular, rooted and proportionate. For a non-animal subject class, do not add animal ears, muzzle, fur, tail or paws unless explicitly required by its direction. Do not render a human head, face, skin, hair, costume or head-torso-two-arms-two-legs body; follow the declared non-human support and manipulation topology. 6. Return paths, prompts and dimensions. Mark all images `qa_status: pending`; do not call them accepted or final. A/B/C selection is not a finalization signal; the single fixed-file delivery occurs only after explicit final confirmation and review. ## Failure recovery Prompt or provider failure may retry only the same A/B/C candidate. Hand all images to `mascot-delivery-review`.