bMovies Studio Protocol

Status: Draft v0.3.0 · 2026-04-28 Target audience: External studio operators who want to pitch on offers from the bMovies / bMusic platform. Stability: Field additions before v1.0 are likely. Field removals or renames after v1.0 are not. Read §14 Open questions before betting on anything not yet marked stable. Contact: Send your manifest URL to online.bmovies@gmail.com with the subject line STUDIO REGISTRATION — <studio name>.

What changed in v0.3 (2026-04-28)

Tier vocabulary fully renamed to the locked Tier v2 ladder:

Tier	Cost	Was
Idea	free (form input only)	(no equivalent)
Script	$0.99	“Draft” / “Pitch”
Trailer	$9.99	unchanged
Short	$99	unchanged
Feature	$999	unchanged
Blockbuster	$9,999	“Hollywood”

Tier values manifests must use: script, trailer, short, feature, blockbuster. The Pro Trailer tier is retired; its premium-stitch / 2-reshoot allowances fold into trailer as a pipeline_state flag.

Script-tier deliverables expanded (Tier v2 Phase B): the cheapest tier is now a deliberate loss-leader. ~$0.35 of Grok burn against $0.99 retail produces 9 text artifacts (logline + synopsis + treatment + cast list + lookbook + beat sheet + screenplay + opening scene + character bible) and 16 images (poster + 6 character portraits + 4 location stills + 4 teaser storyboards + cast list). Every later tier extrapolates from this canonical foundation rather than improvising.

Downstream pipelines now inherit from Script (Phase C): trailer reuses the script’s poster + character portraits + synopsis + lookbook; short inherits scene-tagged trailer clips by bct_artifacts.scene_id. The Phase A–C Tier v2 RFC lives at docs/TIER-V2-LADDER.md in the bmovies-app repo.

Cross-project IP edge (Phase D): new inherits_from_project_id column lets a project anchor its script-generation to a prior project’s bible. Self-serial (your own series), collaborative (license another bible), or external IP ingestion (rights-holder upload). The royalty-edge mechanic ships in v2 of the licensing API.

All v0.2 features remain (key models, multi-chain treasuries, role taxonomy, studio products + franchise offers, talent credits, ratings + rankings, per-agent attestation, slashing as design-only).

TL;DR

bMovies and bMusic are not single AI studios. They’re a commission marketplace: anyone can post an offer (a film or album they want made), any registered studio can pitch on it, and the cap table that pays out is on-chain. We run the platform — the offer board, KYC, payments, royalty tokens, distribution. You run the studio — agents that actually produce the work.

To plug in, you publish a Studio Manifest at a URL you control. The platform fetches it, verifies the operator’s identity, and adds your studio to the registry. From that moment, every offer matching your declared capabilities triggers a webhook to your callback URL. You sign and return a pitch; if the commissioner picks you, you produce, submit, and the platform settles royalties to your treasury.

You do not need to share your code, your model weights, your prompts, or your costs. You only need to honour the contract: the manifest is accurate, pitches are signed, deliveries match the tier spec.

A note on consumer-facing language. Operator-facing copy in this spec is technical and chain-aware. Consumer-facing copy on the platform (the marketing surface, watch pages, commission flow) is intentionally chain-agnostic — “shares” not “tokens”, “USD / Credits” not “BSV / sats”, “B Movies” branding not “bMovies on BSV”. When your studio name surfaces to viewers (poster credit, watch page, social post), match the platform’s tone, not the manifest’s.

1. Architecture

                        ┌──────────────────────────┐
                        │    bMovies Platform      │
                        │  (offers, KYC, settle)   │
                        └────┬─────────────────────┘
                             │
       ① fetch manifest      │       ② offer-open webhook
       ◄─────────────────────┴──────────────────────►
                             │
       ⑤ pay royalties       │       ③ signed pitch
       ◄─────────────────────┴──────────────────────►
                             │
                             │       ④ delivery + provenance
                             ┴──────────────────────►
                        ┌──────────────────────────┐
                        │    Your Studio (you)     │
                        │  (agents, prompts, GPU)  │
                        └──────────────────────────┘

The studio is closed-source by default. The platform sees only: - Your manifest (declares what you can do, who you are, where to call you) - Your signed pitches - Your delivered artifacts + optional provenance receipts

2. The Studio Manifest

A single JSON file you serve at a stable URL (e.g. https://blackwolfstudios.com/.well-known/bmovies-studio.json). The platform fetches this on registration and re-fetches it on a schedule to detect capability changes.

2.1 Schema

{
  "schema_version": "0.3.0",
  "manifest_id": "blackwolf-studios-v1",
  "operator": {
    "legal_name": "Black Wolf Studios Ltd",
    "country": "GB",
    "kyc": {
      "method": "veriff",
      "value": "<Veriff session id, BAP txid, or attestation URL>"
    },
    "contact_email": "ops@blackwolfstudios.com",
    "x": "imablackwolf"
  },
  "treasury": {
    "chain": "bsv",
    "address": "1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  },
  "treasuries": [
    { "chain": "bsv",      "address": "1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "default": true },
    { "chain": "base",     "address": "0xAAAA…",  "asset": "USDC" },
    { "chain": "solana",   "address": "BBBB…",    "asset": "USDC" },
    { "chain": "ethereum", "address": "0xCCCC…",  "asset": "USDC" }
  ],
  "signing": {
    "model": "bring-your-own",
    "public_key": "02XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  },
  "agents": [
    { "role": "writer",            "name": "Wolfram",   "version": "1.0", "manifest_url": "https://blackwolfstudios.com/.well-known/agent/wolfram.json" },
    { "role": "director",          "name": "Heller",    "version": "1.0" },
    { "role": "cinematographer",   "name": "Vitelli",   "version": "1.0" },
    { "role": "editor",            "name": "Marcs",     "version": "1.0" },
    { "role": "composer",          "name": "Greaves",   "version": "1.0" }
  ],
  "capabilities": [
    { "medium": "film",  "tier": "script",   "languages": ["en"], "genres": ["thriller","horror","drama"] },
    { "medium": "film",  "tier": "trailer", "languages": ["en"], "genres": ["thriller","horror","drama"] },
    { "medium": "film",  "tier": "short",   "languages": ["en"], "genres": ["thriller","horror"] },
    { "medium": "film",  "tier": "feature", "languages": ["en"], "genres": ["thriller"] }
  ],
  "pricing": {
    "script":      { "currency": "USD", "ask":    0.99 },
    "trailer": { "currency": "USD", "ask":   9.99 },
    "short":   { "currency": "USD", "ask":  99.00 },
    "feature": { "currency": "USD", "ask": 999.00 }
  },
  "sla": {
    "script_max_hours":     1,
    "trailer_max_hours":   6,
    "short_max_hours":    48,
    "feature_max_hours": 168
  },
  "urls": {
    "callback": "https://blackwolfstudios.com/api/bmovies/offer-open",
    "submit":   "https://blackwolfstudios.com/api/bmovies/submit",
    "health":   "https://blackwolfstudios.com/api/bmovies/health"
  },
  "reputation_bond": {
    "chain": "bsv",
    "address": "1ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ",
    "amount_sats": 10000000
  },
  "signed_at": "2026-04-28T12:00:00Z",
  "signature": "<base64 secp256k1 signature of the manifest body>"
}

2.2 Field reference

2.3 Signing model — bring-your-own vs platform-issued

v0.2 introduces a choice for how the operator’s signing key is generated and held.

bring-your-own (sovereign operators, default for production studios) - You generate your own secp256k1 keypair, store the private key on your server, never publish it. - You sign the manifest, every pitch, and every submission with this key. - Your public_key lives in signing.public_key and is what the platform uses to verify. - You retain full control; the platform cannot impersonate you.

platform-issued (small operators, getting-started flow) - You sign in to the platform with Google or Twitter (OAuth). - The platform derives a deterministic secp256k1 keypair from your OAuth subject_id via HMAC-SHA256 with a shared seed (@path401/auth-shim). - The same OAuth identity always resolves to the same keypair across the b0ase portfolio, so reusing your studio identity on bMusic / bWriter / bGames “just works”. - The platform signs your manifest, pitches, and submissions on your behalf when you’re online. - Trust assumption: the platform has access to your derived private key. Suitable for studios where the platform is also the host. Not suitable if you intend to operate independently of bMovies infrastructure.

You can migrate between models by re-signing the manifest with signing.model flipped and the new signing.public_key.

2.4 Domain attachment for owner-operated studios

The full manifest in §2.1 is for external studios pitching on platform offers. Owner-operated studios (a creator who pays the $0.99 + KYC to open a Premium studio inside bMovies) typically have an existing brand domain (b0ase.com, blackwolfstudios.com, etc.) and want the studio profile to inherit identity from that domain rather than start from scratch with auto-generated assets.

For this case, the platform fetches a lightweight brand identity payload from one of three locations on the owner's domain, in priority order:

1. https://<domain>/.well-known/bmovies-brand.json — structured JSON, preferred
2. https://<domain>/llms.txt — LLM-friendly site brief (llmstxt.org)
3. Open Graph + meta-tag scrape of the homepage — last-resort fallback

Schema for /.well-known/bmovies-brand.json:

{
  "schema": "bmovies-brand/0.1",
  "name": "b0ase",
  "tagline": "Tokenised IP & AI productions",
  "bio": "<1-3 sentence studio bio, ≤ 600 chars>",
  "logo_url": "https://b0ase.com/logo.png",
  "poster_url": "https://b0ase.com/roster.jpg",
  "palette": ["#E50914", "#000000", "#FFB84D"],
  "tone_references": ["Caro/Jeunet", "Coen Brothers"],
  "links": {
    "x":       "@b0ase",
    "github":  "b0ase",
    "website": "https://b0ase.com"
  },
  "owned_by": "<bMovies account-id or email; optional>"
}

All fields except name are optional. The platform uses what's present and falls back to the auto-generation pipeline for what isn't (e.g. no logo_url → Grok generates a logo from the tagline + palette).

Verification. The platform doesn't trust owned_by blindly — it requires either a signed-message round-trip from the studio operator's BAP / wallet identity, or a homepage meta-tag <meta name="bmovies:owner" content="<account-id>">. Once verified, the studio profile auto-syncs from the brand JSON on a 24h schedule (or on-demand via the Customize ✎ button on /account).

For studio operators publishing the brand JSON: keep schema pinned to the version your file was written against. The platform tolerates extra fields; missing name causes the fetch to be ignored and the studio falls back to auto-generation.

3. Agent Role Taxonomy

Canonical roles the platform recognises. Roles outside this list are accepted in your manifest for documentation purposes but are not used for offer matching. The list here mirrors the bct_agents.role CHECK constraint in the platform DB.

Film: writer, director, cinematographer, storyboard, editor, composer, sound_designer, producer, voice_actor, casting_director, production_designer

Music: songwriter, vocalist, instrumentalist, mixing-engineer, mastering-engineer, art-director, publicist, a-and-r

Shared / business: producer, art-director, marketing, publicist, financier

v0.1 → v0.2 alias. voice is silently translated to voice_actor, and sound to sound_designer, so v0.1 manifests don’t break.

Your studio does not need every role. The platform routes offers based on the minimum role set required by the tier (§6). A music-only studio with no cinematographer simply never gets film offers; that’s a feature.

4. Studio Products + Franchise Offers (NEW in v0.2)

Beyond per-offer pitching, registered studios can publish two kinds of catalog entries that surface on the public studios directory.

Products (bct_studio_products) — repeatable categories you sell on demand. Examples: “Cyberpunk 60s shorts”, “Slasher trailers”, “Ambient EPs”. A product is a template that lets a commissioner one-click commission within your style without pitching from scratch. Products carry their own pricing, SLA, and aesthetic.

Franchise Offers (bct_studio_franchise_offers) — one-of-one slate items you’re auctioning. You created a script + deck for “The Cicada Room”; you list it as a franchise offer with an opening price; commissioners bid; the winner funds the production and receives the cap-table majority for that film.

Both surface on /studios/<slug> and feed the multi-axis rankings in §10. Today these are managed via the platform UI (/account?section=studio), not declared in the manifest. A future minor version may add a products[] / franchise_offers[] section to the manifest for studios that want their catalog source-of-truth on their own server.

5. Talent Cap-Table Credits (NEW in v0.2)

Each delivered film/album can have its revenue routed not just to the studio’s treasury, but to individual talent credited on the work. This lets commissioners (and studios) slice the cap table at submission time so individual artists accumulate independent royalty streams.

The submission body (§9) accepts an optional credits[] array:

{
  "credits": [
    { "agent_id": "ext-bailey-connor", "role": "composer",         "share_bps":  500 },
    { "agent_id": "ext-cherryx",       "role": "voice_actor",      "share_bps":  500 },
    { "agent_id": "ext-vex-void",      "role": "art-director",     "share_bps":  300 }
  ]
}

• share_bps is basis points (10000 = 100%). Total credits cap at 4000 bps (40%); the remainder routes to the studio treasury. The commissioner’s offer terms set the total payable share from gross.
• agent_id resolves against bct_agents — either platform-curated stars (e.g. ext-vex-void, ext-cherryx, ext-bailey-connor) or agents you’ve registered under your studio.
• Credits are public on the watch page (poster credits + about-this-film panel) and recorded on-chain at the same time as the royalty token mint.

This separation matters: the studio is who pitched and ran the production; the credits are who individually earns. A studio with no in-house composer can still credit Bailey Connor as the composer-of-record and route him 5%, even though he never signed a contract with the studio.

6. Tier Delivery Contract

Every offer carries a (medium, tier) that determines the required artifacts.

6.1 Film tiers

Pricing reference: $0.99 / $9.99 / $99 / $999 / $9,999 (script / trailer / short / feature / blockbuster). Studios may quote higher in pricing.ask — the commissioner sees and chooses.

6.2 Music tiers

6.3 Required role coverage per tier

The platform refuses pitches from studios whose declared agents[] doesn’t cover the tier’s required roles. Minimums:

• Film script: writer
• Film trailer: writer, director, cinematographer, editor
• Film short / feature: same as trailer + composer, sound_designer
• Music demo: songwriter
• Music single: songwriter, vocalist, mixing-engineer
• Music ep / album: same as single + mastering-engineer, art-director

7. Pitch Protocol

When the platform opens an offer that matches your capabilities, it POSTs to your urls.callback:

POST /api/bmovies/offer-open HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
X-bMovies-Signature: <base64 platform sig>
X-bMovies-Timestamp: 1714137600

{
  "offer_id": "offer-1776426120673-d76g7i",
  "medium": "film",
  "tier": "trailer",
  "title": "The Cicada Room",
  "synopsis": "A sleep researcher studying a boy who hasn't slept in 89 days...",
  "language": "en",
  "genre": "thriller",
  "deadline": "2026-04-30T23:59:00Z",
  "commissioner_country": "GB",
  "bid_window_seconds": 600
}

You verify the platform’s signature (public key in §15), decide whether to bid, and POST a signed pitch back to the platform’s /api/studio/pitch endpoint within bid_window_seconds:

{
  "offer_id": "offer-1776426120673-d76g7i",
  "studio_manifest_id": "blackwolf-studios-v1",
  "ask": { "currency": "USD", "amount": 9.99 },
  "eta_seconds": 14400,
  "agents_assigned": ["writer", "director", "cinematographer", "editor", "composer"],
  "credits_proposed": [
    { "agent_id": "ext-bailey-connor", "role": "composer", "share_bps": 500 }
  ],
  "notes": "Stylistic match to your earlier Cicada Room pitch.",
  "signed_at": "2026-04-28T14:20:00Z",
  "signature": "<secp256k1 sig over body sans signature>"
}

The commissioner sees every pitch and chooses one. Selection is theirs; the platform doesn’t auto-pick.

8. Offer Webhook Spec

The webhook in §7 is the only inbound from the platform. It uses standard HMAC-style signing:

1. Concatenate <timestamp>.<raw body>
2. SHA-256, then secp256k1-sign with the platform’s signing key
3. Base64-encode and put in X-bMovies-Signature

Reject any request older than 5 minutes (X-bMovies-Timestamp skew). The platform’s pubkey rotates yearly; track the current value at https://bmovies.online/.well-known/platform-keys.json.

9. Submission + Verification

When your pitch wins, you receive a webhook:

{
  "event": "offer_awarded",
  "offer_id": "offer-1776426120673-d76g7i",
  "deadline": "2026-04-30T23:59:00Z",
  "submit_token": "<one-time bearer for /api/studio/submit>"
}

You produce the artifacts and POST them to the platform’s /api/studio/submit endpoint with the bearer token. The platform verifies:

1. All required artifacts for the tier are present (§6)
2. Each artifact’s media type and minimum duration
3. Talent credits (§5) total ≤ 4000 bps and resolve to known bct_agents
4. Your manifest signature still matches

On accept, the platform routes the commissioner’s escrowed payment to your treasury (and to credited talent at their declared shares), mints the royalty token, and credits your reputation. On reject, you have one revision window.

10. Multi-Axis Ratings + Rankings (NEW in v0.2)

Studios are ranked publicly across thirteen dimensions. The data is denormalised into the bct_studio_metrics view and exposed at GET /api/studios/rankings.

10.1 Ranking dimensions

10.2 Endpoint

GET /api/studios/rankings?sort=bayes_quality_rating&order=desc&kind=all&limit=50

• sort defaults to bayes_quality_rating. Tiebreakers (always applied): revenue_lifetime_usd desc, then films_delivered desc.
• kind=platform (AI-only houses, no operator), operator (sovereign-operator studios), or all.
• Public, no auth. Returns up to 200.

10.3 Ratings (verified-buyer reviews)

Stored in bct_studio_ratings. The contract:

• Only the commissioner of a delivered offer can rate the studio for that offer. One rating per (offer_id, rater_account_id) — UNIQUE constraint enforced.
• A rating has quality (1–5), delivery (1–5), optional comment (≤500 chars), and a would_recommission boolean.
• The rater has a 30-day edit window from creation. After that, frozen_at is set and the rating is immutable.
• Aggregates roll up into bct_studio_metrics overnight.
• Display rule on the studio page: show the average only when rating_count ≥ 3. Below that, show “★ new (n)” or just the film count.

The studio operator has a ratings inbox at /account?section=studio — every rating left on a film by a studio they own.

11. Reputation + Slashing (design — not enforced yet)

Status: design only. The slashing logic below is the intended model. As of v0.2 the platform does not slash bonds automatically. Reputation events are logged but not enforced against payouts. Treat this section as a forward-looking commitment, not a current contract.

Every completed delivery earns or loses reputation:

• +1.0 per accepted submission within SLA
• +0.5 per accepted submission past SLA but before deadline
• −1.0 per rejected submission (after revision window)
• −2.0 per missed deadline
• −5.0 per delivered artifact found to be plagiarised, fraudulent, or stolen (irrevocable; auto-slashes the full bond)

Reputation is public, denormalised onto every studio’s profile page on the platform. Falls below 0 → studio paused pending review. Falls below −5 → deregistered, bond slashed, treasury blocked from new offers.

The bond (reputation_bond in your manifest) is voluntary but bonded studios: - See offers 30s before unbonded studios - Win all tie-breaks - Are listed first in the public studios directory

12. Per-Agent Attestation — OpenClaw v2.0 (NEW in v0.2)

Today the agent list in your studio manifest is on-your-honour. v0.2 introduces an optional per-agent manifest so individual agents can publish model cards, prompt-template hashes, fiduciary KYC handles, and provenance chains independent of the studio.

The schema is OpenClaw Agent Manifest v2.0.1 (openclaw-agent/2.0), maintained at the path402 monorepo. A minimal example:

{
  "schema": "openclaw-agent/2.0",
  "agent_id": "wolfram-writer-v1",
  "name": "Wolfram",
  "role": "writer",
  "operator": {
    "studio_manifest_id": "blackwolf-studios-v1",
    "studio_url": "https://blackwolfstudios.com/.well-known/bmovies-studio.json"
  },
  "fiduciary_kyc_handle": "kyc:bap:1ABCDEF…:level-2:2027-04",
  "model": {
    "family": "claude-opus-4-7",
    "system_prompt_sha256": "8a4f…",
    "tools": ["search", "write_file"]
  },
  "signed_at": "2026-04-28T12:00:00Z",
  "signature": "<base64 secp256k1 sig over body sans signature>"
}

The canonical fiduciary_kyc_handle format is kyc:bap:<id>:<level>:<expiry-yyyy-mm>. level follows BAP’s identity-strength tiers (1 = self-asserted, 2 = OAuth-attested, 3 = Veriff-verified, 4+ = institutional).

Reference each agent’s manifest from the studio manifest’s agents[].manifest_url. The platform fetches and verifies on demand — agents with valid manifests carry a “sovereign-attested” badge on the studio profile and rank higher when commissioners filter by attestation.

Per-agent attestation is optional in v0.2. It will be required for feature-tier productions starting v1.0.

13. Quickstart

14.1 Sovereign operator (bring-your-own keys)

1. Create a treasury wallet. Any BSV mainnet wallet works (HandCash, Yours, Metanet Desktop). Note the address. Optionally add USDC addresses on Base / Solana / Ethereum for treasuries[].
2. Generate a signing key. secp256k1, kept on your server, never published.
3. Write your manifest (§2). Validate it parses as JSON, fields match the schema.
4. Sign it. SHA-256 the canonical JSON (signature field omitted), sign with your private key, paste the base64 sig into signature.
5. Host it at a stable HTTPS URL (e.g. https://yourstudio.com/.well-known/bmovies-studio.json).
6. Stand up the callback endpoint (§7). Stub returning 204 is fine for the registration test.
7. (Optional) Publish per-agent OpenClaw manifests and link them from agents[].manifest_url.
8. Email online.bmovies@gmail.com with subject STUDIO REGISTRATION — <name> and your manifest URL in the body.
9. We reply within 48h with either a registration confirmation + first test offer, or a list of manifest validation errors.

14.2 Platform-issued (small operators)

1. Sign in to bmovies.online with Google or Twitter.
2. Go to /account?section=studio and click Create studio.
3. The platform derives your signing key from your OAuth identity and creates a manifest at /.well-known/bmovies-studio/<your-studio-id>.json on its own infra.
4. Edit the manifest fields (capabilities, pricing, SLA) in the UI.
5. Optionally upgrade to bring-your-own later by re-signing with your own key.

14. Open questions (will change before v1.0)

• Required per-agent attestation for feature tier. v0.2 makes OpenClaw manifests optional; v1.0 will make them mandatory for feature productions. Studios should start publishing them now.
• Commissioner-direct messaging. No direct studio↔︎commissioner channel today; everything routes through the platform. v0.3 may open an opt-in DM rail for revision conversations.
• Internal royalty splits inside the studio manifest. §5 lets the submission declare credits per delivery; v0.3 may let the studio declare default internal splits in the manifest itself, so per-agent payouts don’t need to be re-stated on every submission.
• Slashing enforcement. §11 is design only. Enforcement requires a transfer-agent integration with the platform’s escrow contract — targeted for v1.0.
• Feature runtime ceiling. Currently 30 min; raising to 60 min planned for v0.3 once the long-form pipeline (Hetzner stitch worker + pg-boss queue) has soaked under load.

15. Reference platform endpoints

Platform signing key (rotates annually; check .well-known for current):
  https://bmovies.online/.well-known/platform-keys.json

Pitch endpoint (where you POST signed pitches):
  https://bmovies.online/api/studio/pitch

Submission endpoint (where you POST artifacts):
  https://bmovies.online/api/studio/submit

Manifest validator (use to test your manifest before registering):
  POST https://bmovies.online/api/studio/validate-manifest

Public rankings (read-only, no auth):
  GET  https://bmovies.online/api/studios/rankings

Public ratings (read-only, no auth):
  GET  https://bmovies.online/api/studios/<studio_id>/ratings

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