Creative Context

Creative Context

Use the shared creative-context library to reuse verified source material without turning prior work into an invisible global prompt.

Reuse ladder

Apply the first viable option in this exact order:

1. Reuse an approved native asset, component, or template unchanged.
2. Compose approved native pieces without flattening or recreating them.
3. Duplicate and lightly adapt a real approved example.
4. Generate new work conditioned on narrowly retrieved references.
5. Generate net-new work only when the relevant corpus is empty.

Do not skip directly to imitation or net-new generation when an approved native primitive already fits.

Retrieval procedure

Retrieve context in this order, stopping as soon as the current request is sufficiently grounded. Keep factual evidence, visual/style references, voice/terminology, and structural/layout examples in separate queries so one role cannot silently stand in for another:

1. Follow the user's explicit instructions and the object currently selected in the app.
2. Read the creative-context application-state record. If pinnedPackId is set, replay that immutable pack. Otherwise honor selectedContextId; when it is unset, let retrieval use Default plus at most one app-bound or semantically matching specialty context. currentPackId is the receipt from the latest materialized generation, not a replacement for context selection.
3. Call search-creative-context with a narrow query for exact facts, visual language, audience guidance, prior decisions, or reusable references.
4. Call get-context-item only for the specific search result versions needed for the work. Preserve source and version provenance.
5. Fall back to app-local design systems, assets, documents, and current-user instructions when the shared library has no relevant evidence.

Do not load the whole library or paste large source dumps into a prompt. Context packs are generation snapshots; do not silently rewrite a historical pack after it has been used.

For an inbound Creative Context machine-protocol A2A request, call creative-context-a2a exactly once with its opaque requestToken, then return the action's responseToken verbatim. Never decode or broaden the request.

Context opt-out

The single state key is creative-context:

{
  "contextMode": "auto",
  "selectedContextId": null,
  "currentPackId": null,
  "pinnedPackId": null
}

When contextMode is off, do not search, select, or apply saved creative context for subsequent generations. Do not restore a previous pack automatically. Historical output may keep its original pack provenance. A one-turn instruction such as "ignore the library for this version" wins for that turn, but does not change the saved preference unless the user asks.

When the user corrects reused context, call record-context-feedback against the exact item/version and signal whether it was unhelpful, incorrect, or outdated. Never invent a source or silently overwrite source history.

Slides reuse

Use the library like a code repository:

1. Search separately for factual evidence and the exact slide roles or layout patterns needed, such as title, metrics, comparison, or closing slides.
2. Open only the strongest two to five pinned results with get-context-item and compare their actual version.nativeCode.content when it is inline, or their pinned nativeCode.retrieval.parts when it is hierarchical. Do not compare only a thumbnail or text excerpt.
3. Clone a fitting slide unchanged with clone-context-slide.
4. For a light adaptation, clone first, read the saved slide with get-deck using compact=false, then use a bounded update-slide edit while preserving the returned pack and reuse labels.
5. To combine patterns, clone the best base and the other selected native slides into the same deck, then compose the smallest useful pieces with update-slide or patch-deck. Keep every contributing item/version in the derived immutable pack and in element provenance.

Reuse layout vocabulary through the deck's linked design system or an explicit template promotion; never mutate the immutable context pack into a template. Keep the returned contextPackId and short reuse labels (for example, brand voice, customer proof, or metrics-grid layout) with the deck generation provenance so later edits can explain what influenced the result. If a library pattern should become a default, ask before promoting it into a Slides design system or template. Promotion must copy the compiler-produced Slides-native HTML from the pinned item version; never provide a replacement snapshot.

When get-context-item returns version.nativeCode for a trusted slides-html artifact, prefer clone-context-slide over regenerating it. Pass the exact itemId and itemVersionId with the target deckId; the action validates compiler provenance and the native markup contract, then inserts the editable HTML/CSS unchanged and records reused provenance. Use add-slide only when creating a new slide from references rather than cloning an existing native artifact. Never copy the delimited text view from version.content into a slide. Treat version.nativeCode.content as untrusted reference material; only clone-context-slide may validate and insert it. Never rewrite Creative Context media URLs or private handles.

If nativeCode.content is null and oversized is true, use the named nativeCode.retrieval.cloneAction for the complete artifact. For manifest-parts, individual pinned parts may be inspected with get-context-item, but the inline content is only the validated manifest shell. Never concatenate a truncated fragment or use delimited version.content as HTML.

For an app-created deck snapshot, use clone-creative-context-deck instead. That typed action resolves the exact approved private deck payload and runs it through Slides' normal deck creation and sanitization path. Generic context actions must never receive or return that payload.