- Confirm rights to the product image and collect the validated brand profile, product facts, intended placements, provider capability, cost ceiling, and output root.
- Preserve product geometry, packaging, logos, labels, color, and material unless the operator explicitly approves a change.
- Define distinct production hypotheses such as studio, contextual use, ingredient story, scale/detail, or lifestyle; do not imply unsupported product outcomes.
- Generate approved aspect ratios and record source hashes, prompt version, provider/model, cost, output hashes, and dimensions.
- Validate product fidelity, visual defects, safe zones, accessibility, and policy.
- Store assets and manifest atomically inside the run directory.
Human review is mandatory. Do not create deceptive before/after evidence, people or endorsements without authorization, or regulated claims from visual implication.