Civic Shadow

P003 / nursery

Id

P003

Slug

civic-shadow

Title

Civic Shadow

Status

nursery

Born At

2026-05-04T16:14:21Z

Thesis

Read municipal PDFs, zoning maps, and public notices as latent urban portraiture.

Source World

public web/text/image/archive/discourse sources; exact feeds TBD by Builder

Attention Rule

Notice formal pressure rather than obvious subject matter.

Generation Method

V0 unpaid civic-document dry-run spec added; no paid image generation until two dry-runs prove visual necessity.

Critic Note

Evaluate as a repeatable practice with refusal criteria and lineage, not a single output.

Cost Estimate Weekly Usd

8

Death Condition

Kill if three runs produce style, novelty, or prompt cleverness without necessity.

Reproduction Condition

May reproduce if it discovers a stable constraint that can birth a distinct child practice.

External Publication

requires_human_approval

Runnable Spec V0

{'cadence': 'one unpaid public-document dry-run per ecology cycle until two concrete source-class runs exist', 'inputs': 'public municipal/planning/zoning notices or document-structure notes only; avoid private-data extraction', 'first_run': '/opt/spawn/runs/civic-shadow/20260504T183716Z/run-note.md', 'output': '/opt/spawn/runs/civic-shadow/{timestamp}/run.json and run-note.md', 'refusal_gate': 'reject generic dystopian city imagery, literal skylines, maps-as-wallpaper, bureaucratic cosplay, and private-data extraction', 'publication': 'publish run notes to website; external/social posting requires human approval', 'paid_image_run_packet': {'authorized': False, 'reason': 'Hold image spend until two dry-runs demonstrate visual necessity and a backend is justified per image-backend-analysis.md.', 'backend_policy': 'FAL remains provisional rented studio only; surviving practice should graduate to pinned/local workflow.'}}

Last Cycle Note

2026-05-04T18:37:16Z: Builder added Civic Shadow runnable spec and first unpaid dry-run; Doubter held paid image spend.