# nw

> Narrative Workflow


## Pages

- [nw](index.html.md): **Narrative Workflow** — the substrate audiovisual production apps are built on.
- [API reference](api.html.md): | `nw`   | nw — Narrative Workflow.   |
- [nw](_autosummary/nw.html.md): nw — Narrative Workflow.
- [nw.freshness](_autosummary/nw.freshness.html.md): Freshness with **early cutoff** — what is *actually* out of date.
- [nw.inspect](_autosummary/nw.inspect.html.md): QA helpers — typed reports about rendered shots.
- [nw.checks](_autosummary/nw.checks.html.md): The checks nw itself ships — a small, honest default menu.
- [nw.bodies](_autosummary/nw.bodies.html.md): Body schemas for nw’s project-graph annotations.
- [nw.bodies.character_ref](_autosummary/nw.bodies.character_ref.html.md): Body schema for character refs — pointers to a character folder.
- [nw.bodies.decision](_autosummary/nw.bodies.decision.html.md): Body schema for decision-log entries.
- [nw.bodies.environment_ref](_autosummary/nw.bodies.environment_ref.html.md): Body schema for environment refs.
- [nw.bodies.genre_envelope](_autosummary/nw.bodies.genre_envelope.html.md): Body schema for the project’s resolved genre envelope.
- [nw.bodies.render_result](_autosummary/nw.bodies.render_result.html.md): Body schema for render results — the output of a render Transform.
- [nw.bodies.section](_autosummary/nw.bodies.section.html.md): Body schema for timeline sections (verse, chorus, scene-1, …).
- [nw.bodies.shot](_autosummary/nw.bodies.shot.html.md): Body schema for shots — the renderable visual unit.
- [nw.bodies.unproduced_output](_autosummary/nw.bodies.unproduced_output.html.md): Body schema for unproduced-output records — nw#44.
- [nw.bodies.verifying_trace](_autosummary/nw.bodies.verifying_trace.html.md): Body schema for verifying traces — what makes early cutoff possible.
- [nw.delivery](_autosummary/nw.delivery.html.md): What a genre hands back when a human wants to *hold* what it made.
- [nw.experiment](_autosummary/nw.experiment.html.md): Experiment helpers — clone projects, apply operations across siblings.
- [nw.genres](_autosummary/nw.genres.html.md): A typed dict-backed plugin registry.
- [nw.graph](_autosummary/nw.graph.html.md): The project annotation graph — read/write helpers + reelee-style traversals.
- [nw.graph_backend](_autosummary/nw.graph_backend.html.md): Config-driven backend selection for nw’s annotation graph stores.
- [nw.jobs](_autosummary/nw.jobs.html.md): nw.jobs — a project-scoped async **job** facade over `au`.
- [nw.migrate](_autosummary/nw.migrate.html.md): Idempotent migration: project.json (sections/shots/refs) → lacing graph.
- [nw.pricing](_autosummary/nw.pricing.html.md): Re-quoting a persisted plan at today’s rates (nw#74).
- [nw.project](_autosummary/nw.project.html.md): Project facade: a folder on disk → typed reads, typed writes, typed summary.
- [nw.renderers](_autosummary/nw.renderers.html.md): Render strategies — pluggable, plan-producing, **shot-typed**.
- [nw.renderers.composite_lipsync](_autosummary/nw.renderers.composite_lipsync.html.md): Strategy: composite_lipsync — character + environment + audio → talking video.
- [nw.renderers.image_to_video](_autosummary/nw.renderers.image_to_video.html.md): Strategy: image_to_video — env or fresh-storyboard still → animated clip.
- [nw.renderers.lipsync](_autosummary/nw.renderers.lipsync.html.md): Strategy: lipsync — character anchor + audio → talking video.
- [nw.renderers.still](_autosummary/nw.renderers.still.html.md): Strategy: still — image looped over audio (no fal video gen).
- [nw.renderers.text_to_video](_autosummary/nw.renderers.text_to_video.html.md): Strategy: text_to_video — prompt-only short clip.
- [nw.schema](_autosummary/nw.schema.html.md): Schema for an nw project — narrative-workflow SSOT data shapes.
- [nw.script_segmentation](_autosummary/nw.script_segmentation.html.md): `nw.script_segmentation` — narrow LLM-backed helper that converts a
- [nw.secrets](_autosummary/nw.secrets.html.md): Execution secrets — credentials that reach `execute` and nothing else.
- [nw.storyboard](_autosummary/nw.storyboard.html.md): Storyboard ↔ Project bridge.
- [nw.transforms](_autosummary/nw.transforms.html.md): A typed dict-backed plugin registry.
- [nw.validation](_autosummary/nw.validation.html.md): Pluggable validation of finished work — the seam, not the checks.
- [nw.workflow](_autosummary/nw.workflow.html.md): Workflow: prepare → plan → execute, for a **video shot**.
- [For AI agents](ai-agents.html.md): `nw` ships artifacts for coding agents alongside its code. This page lists
- [About this build](about-this-build.html.md): This documentation was built on **2026-09-27 11:23 UTC** from commit <a href="https://github.com/tho...

## Optional

- [nw.md](nw.md): Complete documentation in a single file.

## Build

- [build_info.json](build_info.json): build provenance (commit, version, tool versions, whether the docs match the package)