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User-Persona Acceptance Matrix (YSD-0109)

sound, and narrative work together; start from questions, not taxonomies; needs definitions, guided lenses, exercises.

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Compiled 2026-07-18. Maps each proposal §6 persona to their jobs, the §7 journeys that exercise them, the checklist items whose completion constitutes acceptance for that persona, and the lens/domain dependencies. This matrix is the persona-side index into the Section 22 definition of done: a persona is served only when every listed acceptance item is proven.

1. Learner filmmaker (§6.1)#

  • Jobs: understand how camera, staging, acting, editing, production design, sound, and narrative work together; start from questions, not taxonomies; needs definitions, guided lenses, exercises.
  • Journeys: §7.1 bring in a source, §7.2 deconstruct a scene, §7.6 practice and review.
  • Acceptance items: YSD-1030 walking skeleton; YSD-22001–22007 (project, rights decision, hierarchy correction, multi-level observations, real lenses, output identity, epistemic distinction); YSD-2021 StudyQuestion (question-first entry); Section 9 film lenses per the YSD-0126 selection; Section 14 exercises (YSD-22015).
  • Depends on: Hathor (narrative/shot/lighting), Aja (motion), Euterpe (sound), Metis (exercises), Sophia (anchors), Nisaba (notebook).
  • Non-negotiable: manual study must work with zero models (Gate 12, YSD-18141) — this persona is the walking-skeleton user.

2. Learner game developer (§6.2)#

  • Jobs: study mechanics, feedback, level flow, combat readability, camera, animation, UI, audio, economy, narrative, player decision-making; captured footage only for external titles, deep runtime data for own builds; connect reference systems to original decisions without assuming visually similar games share systems.
  • Journeys: §7.5 study a game system, §7.7 inspiration system, §7.8 transfer into production.
  • Acceptance items: Section 12 tiers (video-only Tier A honest for external titles — YSD-22031; instrumented Tier B/C for owned builds); YSD-2074–2077 game anchors + sync uncertainty; Gate 9 (YSD-18138); Gate 16 (YSD-18145 — lookalike mechanics never silently merged, the §6.2 constraint verbatim); YSD-22016 transfer with backlink.
  • Depends on: Bellona + product runtimes (replay/telemetry), Hathor (MDA), the YSD-0127 first-game decision (V2 is the candidate).
  • Non-negotiable: external commercial titles never get instrumented analysis (Section 21 anti-feature tests).

3. Actor, animator, or director (§6.3)#

  • Jobs: compare performances/movement at beat level; inspect face, voice, breath, posture, gaze, gesture, blocking, timing, camera relationship; rehearse alternatives; review attempts.
  • Journeys: §7.3 build an anger atlas, §7.6 practice and review.
  • Acceptance items: YSD-22004 (beat/frame/region observations); YSD-22008 (synchronized comparison 2–8 examples, YSD-22011 matrix >8); Section 10 Emotion/Performance Atlas; Section 14 practice attempts with consent (YSD-2046); Gate 7 (YSD-18136 private performance consent), Gate 8 (YSD-18137 bias/dignity), Gate 13 (YSD-18142 feedback does not mandate imitation).
  • Depends on: Aja (pose/motion), Euterpe (voice), Yemaya performance vocabulary, Iris (accommodations).
  • Non-negotiable: behavior-description only — no real-state emotion inference, gaze/fatigue/authenticity scoring excluded (YSD-4052; flagged analyzers listed in section-29-evidence.md).

4. Character, costume, and concept artist (§6.4)#

  • Jobs: high-resolution regions, silhouettes, material/garment terminology, accessory function, wear states, color relationships, historical/cultural context, design-to-story links, synthesis into an original character/world system with traceable decision history.
  • Journeys: §7.4 study a character design, §7.7 inspiration system, §7.8 transfer.
  • Acceptance items: YSD-22009 (whole-image + exact-region pinning with do-not-copy notes); YSD-22010/22012 (typed connections; original concept system with coverage/contradiction/concentration checks); YSD-22013 (creative decision with transformation + backlinks); Gate 14 (YSD-18143 transfer originality); Gate 15 (YSD-18144); YSD-4072 (source-backed cultural claims with applicability limits).
  • Depends on: Aglaea (garment/fashion semantics — needs media-region grounding added), Neith/Maya (3D asset inspection for own assets), resolution limits from RightsGrant constraints (YSD-4003/4031).
  • Non-negotiable: high-resolution crops obey grant-specific resolution limits; cultural terminology carries taxonomy authorship (YSD-4072).

5. Teacher, mentor, or team lead (§6.5)#

  • Jobs: create source-safe study sets, assign guided analyses, review evidence, comment on interpretations, publish rubrics, monitor growth without turning taste into a fake objective score.
  • Journeys: §7.6 practice and review (assigning side).
  • Acceptance items: Section 14 teaching workflows (assignment, rubric, moderation per YSD-0137 policy decision); YSD-2045 PracticeExercise with accommodations; YSD-2047 MasteryRecord explicitly separated from taste/originality scoring; YSD-4074 classroom moderation; YSD-4054 minor consent controls; YSD-22015 (exercise → attempt → evidence-linked feedback → challenge → reflection loop); audience-compatible consent before private examples enter classes (YSD-4056).
  • Depends on: Metis (rubrics/assessment), Oshun (tenancy/roles), Iris (accommodations), rights resolver (teaching action, YSD-4002).
  • Non-negotiable: no global ranking of learners' taste; mastery evidence only (YSD-4076 safe-language regression).

6. Researcher or critic (§6.6)#

  • Jobs: citable corpus, explicit interpretive claims, source lineage, comparison tables, disagreement handling, export, reproducibility across analysis versions.
  • Journeys: §7.2 deconstruct a scene (rigorous variant), §7.1 corpus building.
  • Acceptance items: YSD-2033 InterpretationClaim with counterevidence/ dissent; YSD-2111 contradictory-claim coexistence (no last-write-wins); YSD-22014 (notebook with durable citations, versions, disagreement); YSD-2036 ComparisonSet with frozen snapshot; Section 15 exports/citation formats (BibTeX/RIS/CSL primitives already in nisaba per YSD-0102); YSD-2050 AnalysisRun versioning for reproducibility; Gate 19 (YSD-18148 — impact reviews never rewrite accepted scholarly history).
  • Depends on: Nisaba (citation/notebook), Sophia (claims/provenance), immutability guarantees (YSD-0013).
  • Non-negotiable: accepted records immutable through versioned supersession; exports remain verifiable (signed, YSD-4125).

Coverage check#

Every §6 persona maps to at least one §7 journey, at least three Section 22 acceptance proofs, and at least one non-negotiable safety/integrity constraint. Items that serve every persona (rights decisions, epistemic distinction, deletion) are listed once under the persona that stresses them hardest, not repeated. The Section 22.3 completion audit should verify each persona row against shipped behavior, not against this matrix alone.