# Held-out set v3 (test set)

Twenty-one `dpl.plan/1` plans, each with a craft note in `notes/<name>.md`. Written on 18 October 2026 by Claude (Sonnet 5.5) acting as a film director and editor, for the v3 test set.

## What this set is for

A **test set** for the edit-readiness checker. Its plans are craft-correct: they are meant to cut together, with the details a careful planner would give (staging, line of action, spoken lines with listeners and a turning line, coverage roles, prop states, travel, journeys and sequences where there is a route or arc, sound and transitions). A later stage will inject faults into copies of these plans and run the checker over them. Nothing here is a planted fault.

## How it was made (independence)

The author wrote every plan blind to the rules. Allowed reading: `docs/dpl/DPL_PLAN_FORMAT.md`, `contracts/dpl/*.schema.json`, the `the-beacon` fixture as an example of format only, the `dpl` commands `validate`, `missing`, `schema`, `format`, `terms` and `shot-list`, general film craft, and (for plan 21) the *Tears of Steel* reference material named below. Not opened or run: any other held-out corpus or branch, other worktrees, the readiness rule code, `EDIT_READINESS.md`, `READINESS_BENCHMARK.md`, anything else under `tests/corpus/`, the readiness tests, and the commands `readiness`, `bench`, `apply` and `replan`. `dpl missing` was used the way a real planner would, to answer questions a careful plan can answer; where a question was left open it is on purpose and the plan's note says why.

The author also ran a private craft checklist over the plans (adjacent shots from one set-up at one size, subjects on the wrong side of the line, speakers seen during their lines, turning-line listeners seen within a second, hold lengths, prop states against changes, screen-direction reversals). That checklist was written from craft knowledge, not from the rules, and is not part of this repository.

## Rules for using the set

**Never use this set to tune rules.** It exists so that a rule's score on unseen plans means something. If a plan here is flagged, the finding is a result to report, not a reason to change a plan or a rule to match it. A set that has been tuned against stops being a test set; if that ever has to happen, write a new held-out set (v4) instead.

## Spread

| # | Plan | Situation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `first-date-bistro` | First date at a restaurant table |
| 2 | `heist-map-table` | Heist planning, five people round a map |
| 3 | `train-strangers-eulogy` | Two strangers side by side on a train |
| 4 | `airport-arrivals-reunion` | Family reunion at airport arrivals |
| 5 | `news-pier-reopens` | News-style piece to camera with B-roll |
| 6 | `screen-tutorial-sums` | Screen tutorial with a face-cam presenter |
| 7 | `phone-review-espresso` | Product review on a phone |
| 8 | `dog-training-recall` | Dog-training video |
| 9 | `fitness-partner-circuit` | Fitness workout |
| 10 | `dance-class-salsa` | Dance class |
| 11 | `charity-appeal-last-tin` | Charity appeal |
| 12 | `recruitment-vets-testimonials` | Recruitment video, three staff testimonials |
| 13 | `music-video-last-bus` | Narrative music video |
| 14 | `standup-open-mic-dee` | Stand-up comedy set with audience reactions |
| 15 | `theatre-rehearsal-ask-her` | Theatre rehearsal, director and two actors |
| 16 | `breakfast-toddler-banana` | Breakfast with a parent and a toddler |
| 17 | `kitchen-reno-vlog` | Kitchen renovation vlog |
| 18 | `farmers-market-two-vendors` | Two vendors interviewed at a farmers' market |
| 19 | `courtroom-cake-claim` | Courtroom-style argument with three people |
| 20 | `school-play-gingerbread-queen` | School play filmed from the audience |
| 21 | `tears-of-steel-tower-watch` | Reference-derived control: one dialogue scene of *Tears of Steel* |

Every plan passes `dpl validate` with no errors and no warnings.

## Rights note for the reference-derived plan

Plan 21 is reference-derived (CC-BY), for study and benchmark use. Attribution: (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org. *Tears of Steel* (Blender Foundation, 2012) is licensed CC-BY 3.0; its actors keep their portrait rights. The plan was written from the shot strips, the shot boundaries (`labelling/shots.json`) and the English subtitles (`source/TOS-en.srt`) only. It describes framing and staging, gives the characters role names, and paraphrases the three spoken lines; no picture, frame, subtitle text or sound from the film is copied into the repository.

All other plans are invented for this set; their characters, places and lines are fictional.