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- Copy *_gallery_*.png into comics/gallery after each --story run
- Expand ultra-realistic rendering instructions in image prompts
- Add gallery copy test; document comics/ in gitignore; sample vocab batch asset
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Define Archiver, ModelLister, and StoryRunner interfaces in their packages.
gui.New returns App; Application carries an injectable Archiver from Config.
cmd/totalrecall wires default implementations via runDeps for tests and DI.
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Introduce internal/httpctx with non-zero http.Client timeouts for go-openai
and google.golang.org/genai, shared image download client, and
WithTimeoutUnlessSet for operation-level deadlines when callers use Background.
Wire NewOpenAIClient/NewGenAIClient everywhere clients are constructed.
Apply Search timeouts for DALL-E and Nano Banana, provider audio timeouts,
model-list timeouts, Veo operation timeouts, story page download context,
and single-word CLI processing cap.
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Two-part fix for missing dialogue bubbles:
1. Panel script prompt: each panel description must include quoted Bulgarian
dialogue for the character to speak/think. At least 3 of 4 panels per page
must have speech or thought text in the description.
2. Image prompt: added MANDATORY SPEECH BUBBLES block requiring at least 3 of 4
panels to contain a bubble, describing exact white-background/black-outline
style for speech and cloud-shape for thought bubbles, all text Bulgarian Cyrillic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Previously story text was split mechanically into 5 sections and each panel
was guessed from raw prose — causing repeated compositions and incoherent plots.
Now GenerateFull requests a 20-entry panel visual script (P1-A…P5-D) from Gemini
in the same API call as the story and bible. Each panel gets an explicit 1-2 sentence
description of WHO/WHAT/WHERE/expression, written in chronological story order.
buildStoryPagePrompt now uses these descriptions to drive the image model directly
("Draw each panel EXACTLY as described") instead of "scene N from the excerpt".
Falls back to excerpt-driven prompts when the script is absent or incomplete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Add --narrate flag (default false); narration is now opt-in to save TTS quota
- Add VARIETY MANDATE to story page prompts: each panel must differ in camera
angle, pose, location, lighting, and foreground — prevents repeated compositions
- Wire NarrateEnabled through RunnerConfig and main.go
- Update README: --narrate flag, updated output file table, narrator voice examples
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Extract audio coordination (voice selection, config assembly, attribution
writing) into audio_coordinator.go, card directory management into
card_store.go, and image downloading/searcher construction into
image_downloader.go. processor.go shrinks from ~1119 to ~575 lines,
each file now has a single clear responsibility. Also apply go fmt to
all touched files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Replace fixed 10s retry pause with pageRetryBase × attempt (15s→30s→45s→60s)
and increase max retries from 3 to 5. Extracted shared retryPage() helper used
by both generateStoryPage and generatePageWithRetry to keep retry logic DRY.
Gallery pages that fail due to Gemini rate limits now recover automatically
instead of being silently skipped after just 30 seconds of retries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- loadOrGenerate() in artist.go skips API calls for pages already on disk,
loading bytes for the reference chain. Re-runs now only generate missing
pages instead of regenerating the whole comic.
- --story-slug flag forces the output directory slug so a repair run writes
to the same directory as the original (e.g. --story-slug ai-jungle-quest).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The strict LOCATION rule (all 4 panels must show the exact same location)
prevented natural scene progression within a page's story excerpt. Removed
so characters can move through the environment across panels on a single page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Ultra-realistic mode now picks from a dedicated realisticStyles pool
(DSLR photography, cinematic stills, hyper-realistic) instead of the
comicStyles pool. This prevents "comic strip" language from dominating
the model's output when photorealistic rendering is requested.
README updated: 12-page comic count (5 gallery pages), rendering mode
description clarified to show both pools and the 50/50 random default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Add explicit LOCATION rule to story page prompt: all panels must show only
the location described in that page's excerpt, not any other story location
- Strengthen excerpt label so model illustrates only the current excerpt
- Bump version to 0.16.0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Replace all "heroine/her" references in gallery poses with gender-neutral "main character/them"
- Explicitly instruct model to preserve character gender, not invent new characters
- Support multiple main characters in gallery page instruction
- Fix cover and back cover orientation: remove "portrait orientation" (canvas is 16:9 landscape)
- Bump version to 0.15.0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Increase galleryPageCount from 3 to 5 (12 total pages per comic)
- Add 2 new gallery poses: profile close-up and power stance full-body
- Fix gallery prompt: explicitly state single 16:9 landscape image, no grid/panels
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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README
- Random 50/50 rendering mode per run (ultra-realistic or standard comic style)
- --no-ultra-realistic flag forces standard comic style when set
- renderingRequirement const centralised and applied to all image prompts via DRY renderReq() method
- Log rendering mode chosen at generation time
- Update README: correct page count (10), output filenames, all --story flags documented
- Bump version to 0.13.0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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vocabulary/theme files
- Add renderingRequirement const applied to all prompts (cover, story pages, back cover, gallery)
- Write <slug>_comic_vocabulary.txt with vocabulary words and story text for learning
- Write <slug>_theme.txt recording the --story-theme used for easy reproduction
- Enforce adult (18+) characters in generator to avoid content policy blocks on revealing clothing
- Add cover/back cover retry logic (same pageMaxRetries as story pages)
- Bump version to 0.12.0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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TTS chunks
- Increase story pages from 3 to 5 (10 total with cover/gallery/back)
- Add 3 text-free gallery pages with close-up heroine poses before back cover
- Add retry logic to cover and back cover generation (same as story pages)
- Enforce adult (18+) characters in generator prompt to avoid content policy blocks
- Reduce TTS chunk size from 200 to 100 words to stay under 1-minute quality threshold
- Increase TTS timeout from 2 to 3 minutes to avoid spurious deadline exceeded errors
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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subfolder, 16:9
- Iterative image chaining: each page receives cover + prev page as pixel-level
reference (multimodal) so the model copies appearance directly, not from text alone
- --story-theme flag overrides random genre pick per run
- Gemini now generates a short comic title (---COMIC TITLE--- separator) used as
the output slug; all files named <slug>_cover.png, <slug>_page_1.png, etc.
- All comic output stored under comics/<slug>/ subdirectory
- Aspect ratio changed to 16:9 (ThinkPad X1 Gen 9 screen fit; 16:10 not supported)
- Bulgarian language rule moved to top of every prompt for stronger compliance
- Dynamic story-specific cover masthead + publisher logo badge matching story genre
- --story-theme "a thrilling space..." forces genre without touching random pool
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- buildConclusion() calls gemini-2.5-flash (same SystemInstruction pattern)
to write a 3-4 sentence Bulgarian cinematic epilogue (~40-60 words, ~15-30s)
that reflects the story's emotion rather than recapping the plot
- narrateConclusion() narrates it as a separate TTS chunk and appends it to
the chunk list before final concatenation; failure is non-fatal
- Narrator struct now stores apiKey for the text-generation call
- Single-chunk path simplified: Rename instead of unnecessary concatenation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Gemini TTS voice quality degrades noticeably over long single-call texts.
Split the story into ~200-word paragraph-aligned chunks, narrate each
separately, then concatenate with ffmpeg's concat demuxer (copy codec,
no re-encoding). Short stories (single chunk) still use one call.
Temp files are written to a OS temp dir and cleaned up automatically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Bible prompt now requires EXACT age for each character (e.g. "8-year-old girl")
and explicitly states age must not change across any page, cover, or back cover
- Story page consistency rules now call out AGE APPEARANCE alongside face and clothing
- Cover prompt: "Do NOT invent new characters or use generic stand-ins" — only
story characters with matching age/face/clothing may appear
- Back cover prompt: same restriction, plus "same age, same face, same clothing,
same animals as in the interior pages"
- Both covers updated with: "a child must never look older or younger than defined"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cover/back improvements:
- Front cover: MANDATORY TITLE instruction makes 'BULGARIAN VOCABULARY ADVENTURE'
dominate the top 20% of the cover in bold masthead lettering
- Back cover: Gemini generates a 2-3 sentence English marketing blurb that is
embedded verbatim in the blurb-box instruction (italic display type)
- Both covers now specify Silver-Age / Bronze-Age comic production layout
(price box, barcode strip, cover lines)
Animal consistency:
- Character bible prompt now treats animals as named characters — specifies exact
breed, fur colour/pattern, markings, and eye colour; instructs model never to
substitute a generic animal or change markings between pages
- Story page prompts add explicit animal consistency rule alongside human rules
Bible/blurb reliability:
- Switch helper calls to same SystemInstruction + user-content pattern that the
story generator uses successfully with gemini-2.5-flash
- Increase MaxOutputTokens to 8192 and timeout to 90s to match story generator
- Retry pause extended to 15s for free-tier RPM recovery between rapid calls
- Removed deprecated gemini-2.0-flash model references
PDF generation (new internal/story/pdf.go):
- AssembleComicPDF() combines all 5 images into comic.pdf via ImageMagick convert
- Pages are in reading order: cover → story pages → back cover
- Non-fatal: warns if ImageMagick is not installed, never blocks the pipeline
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Add comic_cover.png and comic_back.png flanking the 3 story pages
- Switch story pages to 3:4 portrait aspect ratio for standard comic proportions
- Request 9-panel (3×3) grid layout in every story page prompt
- Generate a Gemini character bible before image generation to lock characters,
clothing, and setting across all 5 pages — clothing only changes if the story
explicitly directs it
- Fix nil-writer panic in cover warning path
- Fix undefined comicPageCount reference in runner.go
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Generate a Gemini character bible before panel image generation
- Bible describes each character (name, age, hair, eyes, clothing) and
setting; it is prepended to every panel prompt to lock visual consistency
- Revert to 3 separate comic_page_N.png files (4:3 aspect ratio)
- bibleMaxTokens=2048 to avoid Gemini 2.5 Flash thinking-token starvation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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narration
- Replace 3 separate comic pages with one 9:16 tall comic_strip.png
- Prompt explicitly requests 3 vertically stacked panels with consistent characters
- Add AspectRatio field to SearchOptions; NanoBanana uses it when set
- Make cinematic narration instruction more dramatic (movie trailer narrator style)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Generates a ~500-word Bulgarian vocabulary story from a batch file
- Produces 3 comic pages via NanoBanana (90% ultra-realistic style)
- Art style chosen randomly per run; override with --story-style
- Cinematic Gemini TTS narration saved as story_narration.mp3
- Random voice from curated pool (Charon, Fenrir, Enceladus, Algieba, Aoede, Schedar)
- Override narrator voice with --narrator-voice
- Falls back to story_tts_todo.txt if narration fails
- No new API key required — reuses existing GOOGLE_API_KEY
- Bump version to 0.9.4
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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