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A Project Is a Folder

Last month we wrote about CC Studio as a governed pipeline of rooms. The useful product is thinner: a tree of projects, a chat, and files you can open before you take them.

A project is a folder. Work happens on a run. The first message names the run, so the thread has a job from the start.

Clicking a project opens the folder. Rename, archive, and delete live on the row. Chat is one thread. Results stack. Click opens a preview. You download after you have looked at the thing.

A folder holds the files. A chat is one thread about one job. Mix them and the brief gets lost. Expanding a project leaves the tree as a tree. A run is the chat.

The studio ships files. A self-contained page, a print or screenshot, a crop for a social size. They show up in the thread.

This is a lab build. Shareable preview links are in flight. Anonymous ones expire. A key makes them last.

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