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The Battery · Method
The instrument, in full.
The Battery is the fixed instrument behind every edition: 25 prompts, three independent takes of each, and a blind panel of human raters scoring every take against the published rubric.
Each prompt isolates one craft question — a reflection that must hold a room, a cut that must preserve a hand, a long camera move that must survive without a warp. The prompts are short. The craft questions are not.
The structure
- Prompts
- 25, numbered P01–P25
- Takes
- 3 per prompt — 75 takes per model, per edition
- Architecture
- 19 Core prompts feed the Realism Index; 6 Frontier probes (KUL, ATM, CRO, STI, DIR, CTRL) are scored on their own protocols and published as separate columns, never in the Index.
- Duration
- Class S = 8s (20 prompts) · Class X = 12s (5 multi-beat prompts)
- Duration caps
- Models below target run at their max in 8–12s with a public “duration-capped” flag; sub-target duration is never penalized on the realism axes.
- Axes
- COPPHYANAPHOCAMTEMSPAEMOCodes only — the long axis names are not published.
The rubric
1–2Broken3–4Uncanny5–6Passable in cuts7–8Broadcast-adjacent9–10Indistinguishable
The prompt roster
The grid below is the Battery’s real structure — every prompt, every take — shown before the frames exist. Prompt names and per-take durations publish at Edition 1 grading; the wells fill when the takes do.
P01Published at Edition 1
P01TAKE 2/3
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P02Published at Edition 1
P02TAKE 1/3
P02TAKE 2/3
P02TAKE 3/3
P03Published at Edition 1
P03TAKE 1/3
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P03TAKE 3/3
P04Published at Edition 1
P04TAKE 1/3
P04TAKE 2/3
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P05Published at Edition 1
P05TAKE 1/3
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P06Published at Edition 1
P06TAKE 1/3
P06TAKE 2/3
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P07Published at Edition 1
P07TAKE 1/3
P07TAKE 2/3
P07TAKE 3/3
P08Published at Edition 1
P08TAKE 1/3
P08TAKE 2/3
P08TAKE 3/3
P09Published at Edition 1
P09TAKE 1/3
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P10Published at Edition 1
P10TAKE 1/3
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P11Published at Edition 1
P11TAKE 1/3
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P12Published at Edition 1
P12TAKE 1/3
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P13Published at Edition 1
P13TAKE 1/3
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P14Published at Edition 1
P14TAKE 1/3
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P15Published at Edition 1
P15TAKE 1/3
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P16Published at Edition 1
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P17Published at Edition 1
P17TAKE 1/3
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P18Published at Edition 1
P18TAKE 1/3
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P19Published at Edition 1
P19TAKE 1/3
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P20Published at Edition 1
P20TAKE 1/3
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P21Published at Edition 1
P21TAKE 1/3
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P22Published at Edition 1
P22TAKE 1/3
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P23Published at Edition 1
P23TAKE 1/3
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P24Published at Edition 1
P24TAKE 1/3
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P25Published at Edition 1
P25TAKE 1/3
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