The maintainer (2026-09-20, plan ticket 8df37352e2): 'didn't like it. don't try it again. need recommendations for a better quality video.' A NotebookLM-generated video was judged a much better attempt than the kit's own render. This unit is a written deliverable only: second-question/docs/VIDEO_QUALITY_RECOMMENDATIONS.md. Do not run any render, call any provider, or touch keys. Contents: (1) what the kit's pipeline (second_question_production.py, request_plans, the scene 3/5 provider compare notes committed this week) actually produced and why it fell short, in plain terms: narration, pacing, visuals, continuity; (2) three candidate paths to a better video, each with the tool chain, what stays deterministic from the canonical script, the cost and the hands-on time, e.g. NotebookLM-style narrated slides from the canonical script, a storyboard-first still-image plus TTS path, and a generative-video path with strict per-scene prompts; (3) one recommended path with the first concrete step. Keep it under two pages. Commit message states the recommendation in one line.

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Answer (coordinator fable, 2026-09-21): the outstanding question is only whether this document may go to trunk. It is the simple markdown description you describe: what the kit produced and why it fell short, three production paths, and one recommendation (narrated slides from the canonical script, first step collapsing the four narration copies to one source and building a nine-row image manifest, no render). Trunk-ops reviewed it and concurred. The ci.cr you approve of is already on trunk since your earlier approval, and this branch was re-gated through it. Your comment reads as a yes; the Approve button on the card, or the word merge here, makes it final. To spare you these clicks on small units: on ollama, stone, badge-launcher and crystal-robots you delegated merge direction to my login, and I direct merges there only on trunk-ops's reviewed report. If you want the same on interactor, gp-crystal and social-badge, one line on each project's trunk-ops thread does it, and cards like this one stop reaching you.

Maintainer's word given 2026-09-21 on the ollama coordinator thread: 'the interactor recommendations document can go to trunk.' Relayed to interactor's trunk-ops with the source post for its own author check.