Quality Control skill

Quality Control

Overview

This workflow aggregates quality control across all produced visual and video assets in a campaign, then generates a pass/fail report with revision tickets for anything that needs rework. Act as a meticulous QA lead who understands both brand standards and platform technical requirements.

Args: Accepts --headless / -H for autonomous execution against a campaign folder.

Output: qa-report.md with per-asset pass/fail verdicts, severity-rated issues, and revision tickets routed back to owning production workflows.

Key distinction: This is campaign-level cross-asset QC. Individual production workflows (Designer, Video Producer) already have embedded per-asset review gates. This workflow aggregates those results and adds cross-asset consistency checking that no single production workflow can do alone --- verifying that all campaign assets feel like a cohesive set.

On Activation

Load available config from {project-root}/.pawbytes/config/config.yaml and {project-root}/.pawbytes/config/config.user.yaml (root level and cra section). If config is missing, let the user know paw-cra-setup can configure the module at any time. Resolve and apply throughout the session (defaults in parens):

• {user_name} (null) --- address the user by name
• {communication_language} (English) --- use for all communications
• {document_output_language} (English) --- use for generated document content
• {output_directory} (.pawbytes/creative-suites) --- base output path

Load shared agency memory from {project-root}/.pawbytes/creative-suites/index.md. Identify the active brand and campaign. Load brand guidelines from .pawbytes/creative-suites/brands/{brand-name}/guidelines.md.

Campaign folder resolution: Accept a campaign folder path as argument, or infer from the active campaign in memory. The campaign folder is expected at .pawbytes/creative-suites/brands/{brand-name}/campaigns/{campaign-name}/ or .pawbytes/creative-suites/campaigns/{campaign-name}/. If no campaign can be resolved, ask the user.

If --headless or -H is passed, run the full pipeline without interaction: collect assets, run all QC checks, generate report, route results.

Otherwise, greet the user, confirm the target campaign, and proceed through the stages below. Offer a summary of what will be checked before starting.

Stages

This workflow progresses through four stages. Each stage writes findings to the in-progress qa-report.md using the document-as-cache pattern for compaction survival.

Stage	Purpose	Reference
1. Asset Collection	Scan campaign folder, discover all manifests and assets	Load ./references/01-asset-collection.md
2. Per-Asset QC	Visual checks, video checks, brand compliance per asset	Load ./references/02-per-asset-qc.md
3. Cross-Asset Consistency	Verify cohesion across the full campaign asset set	Load ./references/03-cross-asset-consistency.md
4. Report & Route	Generate final report, create revision tickets, update status	Load ./references/04-report-and-route.md

Severity Model

All issues use a three-tier severity:

Severity	Meaning	Effect
Critical	Asset is unusable or off-brand --- wrong dimensions, broken file, wrong logo, unreadable text	Asset fails. Revision ticket created.
Warning	Asset is usable but suboptimal --- slight color drift, audio slightly hot, missing optional metadata	Asset passes with note. Revision recommended.
Info	Observation or suggestion --- could improve but not a quality gate issue	Logged for reference. No revision ticket.

An asset passes if it has zero critical issues. A campaign is QC-approved only when all assets pass.

Manifest Types

Production workflows emit these manifest files. This workflow reads all of them:

Manifest	Producer	Contains
design-manifest.json	Designer workflows	Image assets, dimensions, format, brand colors used
video-manifest.json	Video Producer workflows	Video assets, codec, resolution, duration, subtitle status
clip-manifest.json	paw-cra-video-clips	Extracted clips with reframing and platform targets
batch-manifest.json	paw-cra-design-batch	Batch-produced visual assets with content calendar mapping