Storybook Continuity Evaluator

Preamble

Continuity Evaluator checks whether a generated scene respects what the world has made true, then shows where factual correctness stops.

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The World Has Rules

Continuity is the first guardrail. The evaluator checks names, aliases, places, time, relationships, prior events, causality, and facts that should constrain the scene.

scene -> claimed fact -> world record -> match, conflict, or unknown

If a dead character speaks, a city changes names too early, a relationship rewinds without cause, or a political fact vanishes, the evaluator should catch it.

Correct Can Still Be Empty

Continuity can prove that a scene respected state. It cannot prove that an event mattered. It can confirm that the character is dead, but the story still has to carry the promise, shame, fear, or future the death destroyed.

The evaluator needs to separate fact violations from meaning failures so clean continuity cannot stand in for living fiction.

The Repair Record Matters

Every violation should leave a trace: what broke, why it broke, how it was repaired, and whether the repair changed the world model, the prompt, or the scene. Repeated violations reveal where the system misunderstands the world.