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relational-production-protocol — RISE Specification

A ceremony-style protocol for entering and closing creative production sessions — extends @medicine-wheel/ceremony-protocol so technology serves relationship rather than extracting from it (Research is Ceremony).

Version: 0.1.0 (draft) Package: @medicine-wheel/ceremony-protocol (new production module) Document ID: rispec-relational-production-protocol-v1 Last Updated: 2026-06-21

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Desired Outcome

A creator and their agents enter production as ceremony:

• A ProductionSession opens with an intention, participants, and a stage.
• The session advances through four stages mapped to existing CeremonyPhases: pre-production→opening, on-set→council, post-production→integration, closure→closure.
• Each stage carries a typed protocol (intent-setting, agent briefing, cluster seeding, observational logging, pause check-ins, quality review, closure reflection, agent-memory update, gratitude).
• Closure requires having passed through the stages — ceremony cannot be skipped.

Creative Intent

What this enables: The Relational Production Protocol from episode 066 becomes executable. It reuses the ceremony-protocol phase machinery (CeremonyState, nextPhase) so production sessions are first-class ceremonies, not ad-hoc runs.

Structural Tension: Between extractive “make it faster” production and relationally-accountable production. Resolved by a staged protocol that gates closure on having honored each phase.

Types (@medicine-wheel/ceremony-protocol/production)

type ProductionStage = 'pre-production' | 'on-set' | 'post-production' | 'closure';

interface ProductionProtocolStep { prompt: string; honors: string; }
interface ProductionProtocolStage {
  stage: ProductionStage;
  ceremonyPhase: CeremonyPhase;
  steps: ProductionProtocolStep[];
}

interface ProductionSession {
  id: string; intention: string; participants: string[];
  stage: ProductionStage; openedAt: string; closedAt?: string;
  stagesHonored: ProductionStage[];
  reflections: string[];
}

API

• RELATIONAL_PRODUCTION_PROTOCOL: ProductionProtocolStage[] — the four-stage script.
• openProductionSession(intention, participants): ProductionSession.
• advanceProductionStage(session): ProductionSession — moves to the next stage, records it honored.
• closeProductionSession(session, reflections): ProductionSession — refuses to close unless all stages were honored; records reflections + closedAt.

Dependencies

• @medicine-wheel/ontology-core (CeremonyPhase)
• existing ceremony-protocol/index.ts (CeremonyState, nextPhase, phase framing)

Advancing Patterns

• Ceremony cannot be skipped — closure is gated on honored stages.
• Reuse, don’t fork — maps onto existing CeremonyPhase, no parallel phase system.
• Renaud thread — Wilson’s Research Is Ceremony (2008) made operational for film, as the conversation with Nicolas Renaud shaped it.

Quality Criteria

• ✅ A session opens, advances through all stages, and closes with reflections.
• ✅ Closing an un-honored session is refused with a clear reason.
• ✅ Protocol content matches the four-stage checklist drafted in episode 066.

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