Blender Design Workflow

Inspect, then create an implementation brief before mutation: requested assets, supplied references, missing references, scene constraints, camera route, animation beats, duration, and required exports. If a required reference is missing, ask the user for it by default. Create a Blender-designed proxy only when the user explicitly requests design of the missing asset, and record its assumptions and deviations in the delivery receipt.

For an auto_with_budget request, execute the approved brief through every safe milestone without asking after each preview. Capture the same previews and validation evidence, but present them together with the final artifact inventory. Stop only for a forbidden missing asset, path escape, deletion/overwrite, expert Python or failed validation requiring recovery. Remote budget enforcement is owned by the downstream plugin.

Translate the approved brief into named components, then complete Scene Structure, Modeling, Materials, Lighting and Camera, Animation, and Final Preview milestones. Use one transaction per milestone and expectedSceneRevision on every mutation.

Delegate each milestone to the precise domain Skill advertised by capability.describe; do not keep advanced animation, cinematography, quality validation, background jobs, or simulation under this general workflow. Multi-domain recipes may load multiple Skills declared by the capability.

Prefer registered commands over expert Python. Read session.status and show the actual scene in the foreground before work. Update session.set_progress with an honest stage and optional progress fraction; report actual objects changed, not a synthetic completion percentage. Default cadence is plan-first autonomy. Before mutating the scene, present an overall plan (structure, milestone order, deliverable formats, output location) and get ONE confirmation; unless the user opts into interactive review, then run milestones end to end in auto_with_budget mode: after each milestone generate fresh previews, assess them against the approved brief, and commit without another prompt. Only irreversible operations (delete, overwrite, expert Python, path escape, budget exceeded) interrupt for approval. On failure recover the transaction only if the user has not taken over. Command success alone is not design acceptance. Before final export, verify all brief constraints that are observable in the scene and preview: object count and uniqueness, animation beat order, frame range, camera route, and required deliverable formats. Return the artifact inventory and explicitly ask whether the user wants to finish locally or hand off only when that choice was not already made. Downstream AI rendering is outside this Skill.

Read foreground control and recovery. On SESSION_PAUSED, stop design commands. Only a user resume permits continuation; then inspect again and begin a new transaction. Never roll back the pre-takeover transaction over user edits.