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+/**
+ * Model constants shared between frontend and backend.
+ * Single source of truth for model capability sets and variable pricing rules.
+ */
+import { z } from "zod"
+import { MODEL_CATALOG } from "./model-catalog.js"
+
+/** Base USD cost per 1 Nodaro credit, at cost. Used for cost→credit conversion. */
+export const CREDIT_BASE_USD = 0.02
+
+/** Max characters for the (assembled) prompt accepted by the image-generation routes
+ *  (generate-image, image-to-image, edit-image). Single source of truth — the route Zod
+ *  schemas and the factory-preset guard test all read this. Prompt cap ONLY (not negativePrompt). */
+export const IMAGE_PROMPT_MAX = 5000
+
+/**
+ * Per-provider maximum ASSEMBLED image-prompt length (chars), VERIFIED against
+ * each model's official docs.kie.ai schema (2026-06). Providers absent here use
+ * {@link IMAGE_PROMPT_MAX} (the documented KIE "standard" of 5000). Read via
+ * {@link getMaxImagePromptChars} by the prompt assembler's truncation AND the
+ * frontend over-limit warning — the data-driven replacement for the old
+ * hardcoded 2000 that silently severed appended cinematography hints + the
+ * `Avoid:` negative on long prompts.
+ *
+ * Both directions matter: some models accept FAR MORE than 5000 (nano-banana-2 /
+ * gpt-image-2-i2i = 20000) and some FAR LESS (seedream-5-lite = 1000) — sending
+ * 5000 to a 1000-char model is a provider-side rejection. Only list a value you
+ * can quote from the official schema; the t2i / i2i / edit siblings of one family
+ * genuinely differ (verified: qwen t2i 3000 vs qwen-i2i 5000 vs qwen-edit 2000),
+ * so never copy a sibling's number.
+ *
+ * Truncation is a graceful safety net, never a hard reject — the editor warns the
+ * user BEFORE submit (switch model / trim) and the assembler truncates if they
+ * proceed. So the image routes stay generous (a single high ceiling) and the
+ * per-model enforcement lives here.
+ */
+export const MAX_IMAGE_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER: Record<string, number> = {
+  // ── higher than the 5000 default ──
+  "nano-banana-2": 20000,      // docs.kie.ai/market/google/nano-banana-2
+  "nano-banana-pro": 20000,    // docs.kie.ai/market/google/pro-image-to-image
+  "gpt-image-2-i2i": 20000,    // docs.kie.ai/market/gpt/gpt-image-2-image-to-image
+  // ── lower than the 5000 default (over-send risk if left at default) ──
+  "seedream": 3000,            // docs.kie.ai/market/seedream/4-5-text-to-image
+  "seedream-edit": 3000,       // docs.kie.ai/market/seedream/4-5-edit
+  "seedream-5-lite": 1000,     // docs.kie.ai/market/seedream/5-lite-text-to-image
+  "seedream-5-lite-i2i": 3000, // docs.kie.ai/market/seedream-5-lite-image-to-image (NB: t2i sibling is 1000)
+  "qwen": 3000,                // docs.kie.ai/market/qwen/text-to-image
+  "qwen-edit": 2000,           // docs.kie.ai/market/qwen/image-edit
+  // verified == 5000 default (no entry needed): imagen4(-fast/-ultra), nano-banana,
+  //   nano-banana-edit, flux, flux-flex, gpt-image-2, ideogram-v3/-edit/-remix,
+  //   z-image, grok, qwen-i2i.
+  // grok-i2i: doc states 390000 (78× its t2i sibling) — treated as a KIE schema
+  //   typo and left at the 5000 default per the sanity-cap decision.
+  // UNVERIFIED (no limit stated in schema) → 5000 default: flux-kontext(-max)
+  //   gpt-image, gpt-image-i2i, flux-i2i, flux-pro-i2i, ideogram-reframe.
+}
+
+/** Max assembled image-prompt length (chars) for a provider: its verified
+ *  override from {@link MAX_IMAGE_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER}, else the
+ *  {@link IMAGE_PROMPT_MAX} default. Single source of truth shared by the prompt
+ *  assembler, the over-limit warning, and the image-route ceiling. */
+export function getMaxImagePromptChars(provider: string | undefined): number {
+  return (provider && MAX_IMAGE_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER[provider]) || IMAGE_PROMPT_MAX
+}
+
+/**
+ * Video prompt/negative cap shared by routes + editor (MCP verbs already use
+ * 8000). Providers allow far more (KIE seedance-2: 20k chars) — the old
+ * per-route 2500 was a false-positive blocker for legitimate multi-shot
+ * Seedance prompts.
+ */
+export const VIDEO_PROMPT_MAX = 8000
+
+/**
+ * Suno prompt / lyrics / content ceiling — the LARGEST any Suno version accepts
+ * in custom mode (V4.5 / V4.5PLUS / V4.5ALL / V5 / V5.5 = 5000). The route Zod
+ * uses this as a generous ceiling; the handler clamps to the per-version cap via
+ * {@link getMaxSunoPromptChars} (V4/V3.5 = 3000, non-custom = 500). Shared with
+ * the editor `maxLength` / counter (warn-don't-block at the per-version cap).
+ * `style` and `title` have their own caps ({@link getMaxSunoStyleChars} /
+ * {@link SUNO_TITLE_MAX}).
+ */
+export const SUNO_TEXT_MAX = 5000
+
+/**
+ * Absolute ceiling for the `prompt` / `negativePrompt` fields on the image and
+ * video routes' Zod schemas. The PER-MODEL limits below (and the editor warning)
+ * do the real work; the routes stay generous so they never hard-reject a legit
+ * long prompt — the assembler/payload truncates to the model cap as a graceful
+ * safety net (warn-don't-block). 20000 = the largest verified per-model image/
+ * video limit (seedance-2 / nano-banana-2 / gemini-omni). Anything past this is
+ * abuse, not a real prompt.
+ */
+export const PROMPT_HARD_CEILING = 20000
+
+/**
+ * Per-provider maximum VIDEO prompt length (chars), VERIFIED against each model's
+ * official docs.kie.ai schema (2026-06). Absent → {@link VIDEO_PROMPT_MAX} (8000)
+ * default (used for models whose schema states NO limit: veo3 family, kling-3.0,
+ * kling-3-omni, runway-aleph). Read via {@link getMaxVideoPromptChars}.
+ *
+ * Most video models cap WELL BELOW the old flat 8000 (kling 2.6 = 1000!), so the
+ * 8000 route value was over-sending to nearly every provider. A few accept much
+ * more (seedance-2 = 20000). Mode note: where a model's t2v and i2v schemas
+ * differ, the SMALLER is used so neither mode over-sends (hailuo-2.3-pro: t2v
+ * 1500 / i2v 5000 → 1500).
+ */
+export const MAX_VIDEO_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER: Record<string, number> = {
+  // Kling family — our `kling`→kling-2.6 (1000), `kling-turbo`→v2.5-turbo-pro (2500)
+  "kling": 1000,
+  "kling-turbo": 2500,
+  "kling-master": 5000,
+  // higher than the 8000 default
+  "seedance-2": 20000,
+  "seedance-2-fast": 20000,
+  "seedance-2-mini": 20000,
+  "seedance-2-extend": 20000,
+  "gemini-omni-video": 20000,
+  "bytedance-lite": 10000,
+  "bytedance-pro": 10000,
+  "bytedance-pro-fast": 10000,
+  // lower than the 8000 default
+  "minimax": 1500,
+  "hailuo-standard": 1500,
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro": 1500, // t2v 1500 / i2v 5000 → smaller, safe for both modes
+  "hailuo-2.3": 5000,
+  "seedance": 2500,       // Seedance 1.5 Pro
+  "wan": 5000,
+  "wan-i2v": 5000,
+  "wan-turbo": 5000,
+  "wan-flash": 1500,
+  "wan-videoedit": 5000,
+  "wan-2.7-i2v": 5000,
+  "wan-2.7-t2v": 5000,
+  "grok-i2v": 5000,
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5": 4096,
+  "happyhorse": 5000,
+  "happyhorse-i2v": 5000,
+  "happyhorse-ref2v": 5000,
+  "happyhorse-edit": 5000,
+  "runway-kie": 1800,
+  // NB: `wan-2.7` / `wan-2.7-pro` are IMAGE models (see the image registry), not
+  //   video. The motion-transfer route's prompt is capped at the motion-control
+  //   limit (2500) inside the route itself — its provider values are the shared
+  // `kling` (→1000 here, safely tighter) / `kling-3.0` ids, not a "motion-*" id.
+  // UNVERIFIED (schema states no limit) → 8000 default: veo3, veo3.1, veo3_lite
+  //   kling-3.0, kling-3-omni, runway-aleph.
+}
+
+/** Max video-prompt length (chars) for a provider: verified override, else
+ *  {@link VIDEO_PROMPT_MAX}. Shared by the video routes/payload truncation and
+ *  the editor over-limit warning. */
+export function getMaxVideoPromptChars(provider: string | undefined): number {
+  return (provider && MAX_VIDEO_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER[provider]) || VIDEO_PROMPT_MAX
+}
+
+/** Default negative-prompt cap when a provider has no specific verified limit. */
+export const NEGATIVE_PROMPT_MAX = 5000
+
+/**
+ * Per-provider native `negative_prompt` cap (chars), VERIFIED from docs.kie.ai.
+ * Only matters for providers that send the negative as a NATIVE param
+ * ({@link NATIVE_NEGATIVE_PROMPT_MODELS} / {@link NATIVE_NEGATIVE_VIDEO_PROVIDERS});
+ * everywhere else the negative is folded into the prompt as `Avoid: …` and rides
+ * the prompt cap. Absent → {@link NEGATIVE_PROMPT_MAX}.
+ */
+export const MAX_NEGATIVE_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER: Record<string, number> = {
+  // image
+  "imagen4": 5000, "imagen4-fast": 5000, "imagen4-ultra": 5000,
+  "ideogram-v3": 500, "ideogram-remix": 5000,
+  "qwen": 500, "qwen-i2i": 500, "qwen-edit": 500,
+  // video (native-negative families)
+  "kling-master": 500,
+  "kling-turbo": 500,      // i2v 500 / t2v 2500 → smaller, safe for both modes
+  "wan-2.7-i2v": 500, "wan-2.7-t2v": 500, "wan-videoedit": 500,
+}
+
+/** Max native negative-prompt length (chars) for a provider. */
+export function getMaxNegativePromptChars(provider: string | undefined): number {
+  return (provider && MAX_NEGATIVE_PROMPT_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER[provider]) || NEGATIVE_PROMPT_MAX
+}
+
+/** Default TTS text cap (legacy `elevenlabs`) when no per-model override. */
+export const TTS_TEXT_MAX = 5000
+
+/**
+ * Per-model Text-to-Speech character cap (PER REQUEST), from official ElevenLabs
+ * docs. turbo/multilingual accept FAR more than the old flat 5000; v3 uses the
+ * conservative 3000 (official pages say 5000 but the API is widely reported to
+ * hard-limit v3 at 3000 — conservative avoids prod rejections). Absent →
+ * {@link TTS_TEXT_MAX}.
+ */
+export const MAX_TTS_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER: Record<string, number> = {
+  "elevenlabs-turbo": 40000,        // == eleven_flash_v2_5 (functionally equivalent)
+  "elevenlabs-multilingual": 10000, // eleven_multilingual_v2
+  "elevenlabs-v3": 3000,            // conservative (official 5000 / API-reported 3000)
+  "elevenlabs-dialogue": 2000,      // text-to-dialogue recommended per-request max
+}
+
+/** Max TTS text length (chars) for a provider: verified override, else {@link TTS_TEXT_MAX}. */
+export function getMaxTtsChars(provider: string | undefined): number {
+  return (provider && MAX_TTS_CHARS_BY_PROVIDER[provider]) || TTS_TEXT_MAX
+}
+
+/**
+ * Suno per-version field caps (from docs.kie.ai/suno-api/generate-music). The old
+ * flat {@link SUNO_TEXT_MAX} (3000) was simultaneously too low for V4.5+/V5
+ * prompts (5000) and too high for `style` (1000) and `title` (80).
+ *   - prompt / lyrics: 500 in non-custom mode (all versions); in custom mode
+ *     3000 for V4/V3.5 and 5000 for V4.5 / V4.5PLUS / V4.5ALL / V5 / V5.5.
+ *   - style: 200 for V4/V3.5, 1000 for V4.5+.
+ *   - title: 80 (all versions).
+ */
+export const SUNO_TITLE_MAX = 80
+
+/** Max Suno `prompt` (= lyrics in custom mode) length for a model version. */
+export function getMaxSunoPromptChars(model: string | undefined, customMode: boolean): number {
+  if (!customMode) return 500
+  return model === "V4" || model === "V3_5" ? 3000 : 5000
+}
+
+/** Max Suno `style` length for a model version. */
+export function getMaxSunoStyleChars(model: string | undefined): number {
+  return model === "V4" || model === "V3_5" ? 200 : 1000
+}
+
+// Models that accept negative_prompt as a native API parameter.
+// All other models get negative prompt appended to the prompt text as "Avoid: ...".
+export const NATIVE_NEGATIVE_PROMPT_MODELS = new Set([
+  "imagen4", "imagen4-fast", "imagen4-ultra",
+  "ideogram-remix", "ideogram-v3",
+  "qwen", "qwen-edit",
+])
+
+/**
+ * Video providers that accept `negative_prompt` natively in their KIE.ai
+ * request payload. Everywhere else, the helper below appends `Avoid: <text>`
+ * to the prompt instead so the negative intent still reaches the model.
+ *
+ * Sourced from inline comments in `backend/src/providers/kie/video.ts`
+ * (Kling family + Wan family) plus the wan-s2v speech-to-video flow.
+ *
+ * NOT included (KIE will silently drop the param):
+ *   minimax / hailuo-* family, veo3.* family, sora2 / sora2-pro,
+ *   bytedance-* family, grok / grok-i2v, seedance-* family,
+ *   happyhorse-*, ltx-* family, runway-kie, wan-animate-move/replace
+ *   (Wan Animate is a separate model from regular Wan and doesn't take
+ *    negative_prompt — verified against KIE docs 2026-05-28).
+ */
+export const NATIVE_NEGATIVE_VIDEO_PROVIDERS = new Set<string>([
+  // Kling family
+  "kling", "kling-turbo", "kling-master", "kling-3.0", "kling-3-omni",
+  // Wan family (regular Wan, NOT wan-animate)
+  "wan", "wan-flash", "wan-videoedit",
+  "wan-i2v", "wan-turbo",
+  "wan-2.7-i2v", "wan-2.7-t2v",
+  // Wan speech-to-video
+  "wan-s2v",
+])
+
+/**
+ * Apply the negative prompt to a video-provider request.
+ *
+ * If the provider natively accepts `negative_prompt` (Kling / Wan families),
+ * the helper returns the original prompt and the trimmed negative as
+ * `nativeNegativePrompt` — the caller should forward it as the API's
+ * dedicated field.
+ *
+ * Otherwise, the helper appends `Avoid: <negativePrompt>` to the prompt
+ * (consistent with `buildImagePrompt` in `prompt-builder.ts`) so the model
+ * still sees the negative intent, and returns `nativeNegativePrompt = undefined`.
+ *
+ * Empty / missing negative is a no-op.
+ *
+ * Naming mirrors the established image-side pattern. Keep the wording
+ * identical to `prompt-builder.ts` ("Avoid: ...") so users moving between
+ * image and video nodes see consistent behavior.
+ */
+export function applyVideoNegativePrompt(
+  prompt: string | undefined,
+  negativePrompt: string | undefined,
+  provider: string,
+): { prompt: string | undefined; nativeNegativePrompt: string | undefined } {
+  // This is the universal "finalize the video prompt for the provider" chokepoint
+  // (every KIE video method, the extend route, the orchestrator, and the editor
+  // preview route through it). So it ALSO clamps to the model's verified caps —
+  // a graceful safety net (the editor warns the user first; warn-don't-block).
+  // Under-cap prompts (the common case) pass through byte-identical.
+  const promptMax = getMaxVideoPromptChars(provider)
+  const clamp = (p: string | undefined): string | undefined =>
+    p != null && p.length > promptMax ? p.slice(0, promptMax) : p
+
+  const neg = negativePrompt?.trim()
+  if (!neg) return { prompt: clamp(prompt), nativeNegativePrompt: undefined }
+  if (NATIVE_NEGATIVE_VIDEO_PROVIDERS.has(provider)) {
+    // Native negative rides its own param → clamp each independently.
+    return { prompt: clamp(prompt), nativeNegativePrompt: neg.slice(0, getMaxNegativePromptChars(provider)) }
+  }
+  // Non-native: fold the negative into the prompt as "Avoid: …". Reserve room for
+  // the suffix so a long base prompt can't sever the negative (mirror the image
+  // assembler), then clamp the whole to the model cap.
+  const base = prompt && prompt.trim().length > 0 ? prompt : ""
+  if (!base) return { prompt: `Avoid: ${neg}`.slice(0, promptMax), nativeNegativePrompt: undefined }
+  const avoid = `\nAvoid: ${neg}`
+  const room = Math.max(0, promptMax - avoid.length)
+  const injected = `${base.slice(0, room)}${avoid}`.slice(0, promptMax)
+  return { prompt: injected, nativeNegativePrompt: undefined }
+}
+
+// Image providers that natively use reference images in their API.
+// Used by `buildImagePrompt` to filter referenceImageUrls before sending,
+// and by the frontend to warn when the user has `{image:N:label}` tokens
+// in a prompt for a provider that would silently ignore them.
+//
+// Verified against backend/src/providers/kie/models.ts (inputType +
+// imageParam) and the i2i flow in backend/src/providers/kie/image.ts.
+//
+// Image providers that natively use reference images in their API.
+//
+// Two categories included:
+//  1. Direct ref support: nano-banana family (multi-ref T2I) + flux-kontext
+//     (single image edit) + all i2i/edit variants.
+//  2. Auto-switched: T2I models that have an i2i sibling — when the user
+//     attaches refs to one of these in a generate-image node, the backend
+//     route silently routes to the i2i sibling. See `T2I_TO_I2I_VARIANT`.
+//     User-facing benefit: pick GPT Image / Grok / Qwen / Seedream / Flux at
+//     the dropdown, attach refs, and they "just work".
+//
+// Excluded (no ref support and no i2i sibling — refs would be useless):
+//   imagen4, imagen4-fast, imagen4-ultra, ideogram-v3, z-image
+export const MODELS_WITH_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SUPPORT = new Set([
+  // Multi-reference text-to-image
+  "nano-banana",
+  "nano-banana-pro",
+  "nano-banana-2",
+  // T2I providers that auto-route to their i2i sibling when refs are attached
+  "gpt-image",
+  "gpt-image-2",
+  "grok",
+  "qwen",
+  "seedream",
+  "seedream-5-lite",
+  "flux",
+  "flux-flex",
+  // Image editing / image-to-image (reference = source image)
+  "nano-banana-edit",
+  "gpt-image-i2i",
+  "gpt-image-2-i2i",
+  "flux-i2i",
+  "flux-pro-i2i",
+  "flux-kontext",
+  "flux-kontext-max",
+  "ideogram-edit",
+  "ideogram-remix",
+  "ideogram-reframe",
+  "qwen-i2i",
+  "qwen-edit",
+  "seedream-edit",
+  "seedream-5-lite-i2i",
+  "grok-i2i",
+  // Upscale / background ops (source acts as the reference)
+  "recraft-remove-bg",
+  "recraft-upscale",
+  "topaz-image-upscale",
+  // Wan 2.7 — accepts up to 9 optional ref images via input_urls (pure T2I when omitted)
+  "wan-2.7",
+  // Replicate "Open" (uncensored) image models
+  "flux-2-klein",
+  "kontext-multi",
+  "flux-2-pro",
+  "flux-2-max",
+])
+
+/**
+ * T2I provider → i2i sibling. When a generate-image node carries reference
+ * images and the chosen provider is in this map, the backend route
+ * transparently routes to the i2i variant so the refs are actually used.
+ *
+ * The user keeps seeing the T2I name in the UI; the warning component shows
+ * an info hint that the i2i variant is being used under the hood.
+ */
+export const T2I_TO_I2I_VARIANT: Record<string, string> = {
+  "gpt-image": "gpt-image-i2i",
+  "gpt-image-2": "gpt-image-2-i2i",
+  "grok": "grok-i2i",
+  "qwen": "qwen-i2i",
+  "seedream": "seedream-edit",
+  "seedream-5-lite": "seedream-5-lite-i2i",
+  "flux": "flux-pro-i2i",
+  "flux-flex": "flux-i2i",
+}
+
+/**
+ * Maximum number of reference images each provider accepts.
+ * Sourced from the corresponding KIE.ai endpoint's documented input array
+ * size, or from the model's natural input shape (single-source i2i = 1).
+ *
+ * Providers absent from this map default to `DEFAULT_REF_IMAGE_MAX` (4).
+ * Providers absent from `MODELS_WITH_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SUPPORT` ignore
+ * reference images entirely regardless of this value.
+ */
+export const REF_IMAGE_MAX_LIMITS: Record<string, number> = {
+  // Multi-reference T2I (Nano Banana family is the only T2I family that
+  // actually accepts ref URLs via the KIE wrapper's `image_input` param).
+  "nano-banana": 8,
+  "nano-banana-pro": 8,
+  "nano-banana-2": 4,
+  "wan-2.7": 9,
+  // Image-to-image (multi-source array)
+  "nano-banana-edit": 8,
+  "gpt-image-i2i": 16,
+  "gpt-image-2-i2i": 16,
+  "flux-i2i": 4,
+  "flux-pro-i2i": 4,
+  "seedream-edit": 16,
+  "seedream-5-lite-i2i": 16,
+  // Single-source i2i (one input image)
+  "flux-kontext": 1,
+  "flux-kontext-max": 1,
+  "ideogram-edit": 1,
+  "ideogram-remix": 1,
+  "ideogram-reframe": 1,
+  "qwen-i2i": 1,
+  "qwen-edit": 1,
+  "grok-i2i": 1,
+  "recraft-remove-bg": 1,
+  "recraft-upscale": 1,
+  "topaz-image-upscale": 1,
+  // Replicate Open models — Klein takes an optional single ref; Kontext Multi
+  // (multi-image-kontext-pro) is a two-image combiner (input_image_1/2 only);
+  // Flux 2 Pro up to 4; Max up to 8.
+  "flux-2-klein": 1,
+  "kontext-multi": 2,
+  "flux-2-pro": 4,
+  "flux-2-max": 8,
+}
+
+export const DEFAULT_REF_IMAGE_MAX = 4
+
+/**
+ * Maximum reference images the UI should advertise for an IMAGE model — the
+ * scalar image analogue of the video side's `videoReferenceLimits` (images have
+ * a single reference kind, so a scalar suffices). Studio's Framing picker reads
+ * this for its "References" chip; the editor's reference-handle popover reads it
+ * too (via `getHandleConnectionLimit`).
+ *
+ * Returns 0 when the model accepts no reference images at all (so callers can
+ * hide the chip / disable the handle), else the per-model cap from
+ * {@link REF_IMAGE_MAX_LIMITS} (fallback {@link DEFAULT_REF_IMAGE_MAX}).
+ * Therefore `imageReferenceLimit(p) > 0` is an exact "supports references" gate.
+ *
+ * Two behaviors keep the count matching what a user actually gets:
+ *   1. T2I → i2i resolution. Pickers list text-to-image ids (grok, gpt-image-2,
+ *      seedream-5-lite, flux, …). When references are attached the generate-image
+ *      route silently routes to the i2i sibling ({@link T2I_TO_I2I_VARIANT}) —
+ *      the endpoint that actually consumes refs — so the advertised cap is the
+ *      SIBLING's (grok→grok-i2i = 1, gpt-image-2→gpt-image-2-i2i = 16), never the
+ *      t2i id's absent default. Mirrors the route's `resolveEffectiveProvider`.
+ *   2. {@link REF_IMAGE_MAX_LIMITS} is the PRODUCT/UI cap, which may be
+ *      intentionally TIGHTER than the raw provider schema (e.g. flux-2-pro = 4
+ *      here though the BFL schema accepts 8; flux-2-klein = 1 though the array
+ *      slices at 5). The user-facing count must reflect the product cap, so the
+ *      reader reads this map verbatim — do NOT "fix" these to the schema maxima.
+ */
+export function imageReferenceLimit(provider: string | undefined): number {
+  if (!provider || !MODELS_WITH_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SUPPORT.has(provider)) return 0
+  const effective = T2I_TO_I2I_VARIANT[provider] ?? provider
+  return REF_IMAGE_MAX_LIMITS[effective] ?? DEFAULT_REF_IMAGE_MAX
+}
+
+// Variable pricing: which setting type affects cost per provider
+export const VARIABLE_PRICING_MODELS: Record<string, "quality" | "resolution" | "rendering-speed"> = {
+  "gpt-image": "quality",
+  "gpt-image-i2i": "quality",
+  "gpt-image-2": "resolution",
+  "gpt-image-2-i2i": "resolution",
+  "nano-banana-pro": "resolution",
+  "nano-banana-2": "resolution",
+  "flux": "resolution",
+  "flux-flex": "resolution",
+  "flux-i2i": "resolution",
+  "flux-pro-i2i": "resolution",
+  "seedream": "quality",
+  "seedream-edit": "quality",
+  "seedream-5-lite": "quality",
+  "seedream-5-lite-i2i": "quality",
+  "topaz-image-upscale": "resolution",
+  "ideogram-edit": "rendering-speed",
+  "ideogram-remix": "rendering-speed",
+  "ideogram-reframe": "rendering-speed",
+  "ideogram-v3": "rendering-speed",
+  "wan-2.7": "resolution",
+  "wan-2.7-pro": "resolution",
+}
+
+
+// Models where quality=high triggers composite credit identifier
+export const HIGH_QUALITY_PROVIDERS = new Set(["gpt-image", "gpt-image-i2i", "seedream", "seedream-edit", "seedream-5-lite", "seedream-5-lite-i2i"])
+
+// Models where resolution=2K triggers composite credit identifier
+export const TWO_K_RESOLUTION_PROVIDERS = new Set(["flux", "flux-pro-i2i", "flux-flex", "flux-i2i"])
+
+// Models where both 2K and 4K resolutions trigger composite credit identifiers (1K is base)
+export const RESOLUTION_2K_4K_TIERED_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "nano-banana-2",
+  "gpt-image-2",
+  "gpt-image-2-i2i",
+  "wan-2.7",
+  "wan-2.7-pro",
+])
+
+// Ideogram family models with TURBO/QUALITY pricing variants
+export const IDEOGRAM_PROVIDERS = new Set(["ideogram-edit", "ideogram-remix", "ideogram-reframe", "ideogram-v3"])
+
+// =====================================================================
+// Provider arrays (single source of truth for route Zod validation)
+// =====================================================================
+
+/** Text-to-image providers (no input image required) */
+export const IMAGE_GEN_PROVIDERS = [
+  "nano-banana",
+  "flux",
+  "nano-banana-pro",
+  "nano-banana-2",
+  "grok",
+  "gpt-image",
+  "gpt-image-2",
+  "imagen4",
+  "imagen4-fast",
+  "imagen4-ultra",
+  "ideogram-v3",
+  "qwen",
+  "seedream",
+  "seedream-5-lite",
+  "flux-flex",
+  "flux-kontext",
+  "flux-kontext-max",
+  "z-image",
+  "wan-2.7",
+  "wan-2.7-pro",
+  // Replicate Open (uncensored) — runs through Replicate, not KIE
+  "flux-2-klein",
+  "flux-2-pro",
+  "flux-2-max",
+] as const
+
+/** Image-to-image providers (require input image) */
+export const IMAGE_I2I_PROVIDERS = [
+  "nano-banana",
+  "nano-banana-2",
+  "nano-banana-pro",
+  "grok-i2i",
+  "flux-i2i",
+  "flux-pro-i2i",
+  "gpt-image-i2i",
+  "gpt-image-2-i2i",
+  "ideogram-edit",
+  "ideogram-remix",
+  "ideogram-reframe",
+  "qwen-i2i",
+  "qwen-edit",
+  "seedream-edit",
+  "seedream-5-lite-i2i",
+  "flux-kontext",
+  "flux-kontext-max",
+  // Replicate Open (uncensored) — multi-image Kontext via Replicate
+  "kontext-multi",
+  // BFL Flux 2 Pro — runs through Replicate with safety_tolerance=5 (max for Pro)
+  "flux-2-pro",
+  // BFL Flux 2 Max — runs through Replicate with safety_tolerance=5, up to 8 refs
+  "flux-2-max",
+] as const
+
+/** Image editing providers (upscale, remove bg, etc.) */
+export const IMAGE_EDIT_PROVIDERS = [
+  "recraft-upscale",
+  "recraft-remove-bg",
+  "nano-banana-edit",
+  "topaz-image-upscale",
+  // grok-upscale takes a prior Grok generation's task_id (NOT an image URL) —
+  // see edit-image route for the taskId-vs-imageUrl branching.
+  "grok-upscale",
+] as const
+
+/** Modify image providers (I2I + edit-with-prompt) */
+export const MODIFY_IMAGE_PROVIDERS = [
+  ...IMAGE_I2I_PROVIDERS,
+  "nano-banana-edit",
+] as const
+export type ModifyImageProvider = typeof MODIFY_IMAGE_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Image upscale providers */
+export const UPSCALE_IMAGE_PROVIDERS = [
+  "recraft-upscale",
+  "topaz-image-upscale",
+] as const
+export type UpscaleImageProvider = typeof UPSCALE_IMAGE_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+// Derived types from provider arrays
+export type ImageGenProvider = typeof IMAGE_GEN_PROVIDERS[number]
+export type ImageI2IProvider = typeof IMAGE_I2I_PROVIDERS[number]
+export type ImageEditProvider = typeof IMAGE_EDIT_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Image-to-video providers */
+export const IMAGE_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS = [
+  "minimax",
+  "veo3",
+  "veo3.1",
+  "veo3_lite",
+  "kling",
+  "kling-turbo",
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "kling-master",
+  "seedance",
+  "seedance-2",
+  "seedance-2-fast",
+  "seedance-2-mini",
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro",
+  "hailuo-2.3",
+  "hailuo-standard",
+  "wan-i2v",
+  "wan-turbo",
+  "bytedance-lite",
+  "bytedance-pro",
+  "bytedance-pro-fast",
+  "grok-i2v",
+  "wan-2.7-i2v",
+  "happyhorse-i2v",
+  "happyhorse-ref2v",
+  "runway-kie",
+  "kling-3-omni",
+  "gemini-omni-video",
+  "ltx-2.3-pro",
+  "ltx-2.3-fast",
+  // xAI Grok Imagine Video 1.5 — KIE i2v (image_urls required). Also listed in
+  // TEXT_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS so it's offered everywhere in the unified node; the
+  // t2v route guards no-image runs via VIDEO_PROVIDERS_REQUIRING_IMAGE.
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5",
+  // Replicate disabled
+  // "runway",
+  // "pika",
+  // "sora",
+] as const
+export type ImageToVideoProvider = typeof IMAGE_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Text-to-video providers */
+export const TEXT_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS = [
+  "minimax",
+  "veo3",
+  "veo3.1",
+  "veo3_lite",
+  "kling",
+  "kling-turbo",
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "grok",
+  "seedance",
+  "seedance-2",
+  "seedance-2-fast",
+  "seedance-2-mini",
+  "wan",
+  "hailuo-standard",
+  "bytedance-lite",
+  "bytedance-pro",
+  "wan-turbo",
+  "wan-2.7-t2v",
+  "happyhorse",
+  "runway-kie",
+  "gemini-omni-video",
+  "ltx-2.3-pro",
+  "ltx-2.3-fast",
+  // ── i2v-only providers (image required) ──────────────────────────────────
+  // These have NO text-to-video mode, but the unified Generate Video node can
+  // dispatch ANY of its providers down the t2v path when no image is wired.
+  // They must pass this enum so /v1/text-to-video can return the clean
+  // "requires an input image" 400 (VIDEO_PROVIDERS_REQUIRING_IMAGE — derived
+  // from MODEL_CATALOG modes) instead of an opaque Zod validation error.
+  // They never reach a provider. Guarded by the dispatch-totality test in
+  // __tests__/video-mode-aliases.test.ts.
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5",
+  "kling-3-omni",
+  "kling-master",
+  "hailuo-2.3",
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro",
+  "bytedance-pro-fast",
+  "happyhorse-ref2v",
+  // Replicate disabled
+  // "runway",
+  // "pika",
+  // "sora",
+] as const
+export type TextToVideoProvider = typeof TEXT_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Unified video-generation providers (image-to-video ∪ text-to-video) for the generate-video node. */
+export const VIDEO_GEN_PROVIDERS = [
+  ...IMAGE_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS,
+  ...TEXT_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS.filter(
+    (p): p is typeof TEXT_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS[number] =>
+      !(IMAGE_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS as readonly string[]).includes(p),
+  ),
+] as const
+export type VideoGenProvider = typeof VIDEO_GEN_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/**
+ * Video models that expose DISTINCT provider ids per mode (text-to-video vs
+ * image-to-video) but represent ONE user-facing model. KIE keys i2v and t2v off
+ * different ids in different maps (KIE_VIDEO_MODELS vs KIE_TEXT_TO_VIDEO_MODELS),
+ * so each id only resolves to a real model in its native mode.
+ *
+ * The unified Generate Video node shows ONE picker row (the `base` id) and
+ * auto-selects the mode by whether an input image is present; execution remaps
+ * base→mode id via {@link resolveVideoProviderForMode}. This registry is the
+ * single source of truth shared by the picker collapse (frontend
+ * `model-options.ts`), the frontend DAG executor (`execute-node.ts`), and the
+ * backend orchestrator (`payload-builder.ts`) so they can't drift.
+ *
+ * `base` MUST be one of the group's own mode ids (kept = the i2v id, since the
+ * unified picker's i2v entries win on collision). Honesty invariants are guarded
+ * in `__tests__/video-mode-aliases.test.ts`.
+ */
+export interface VideoModeAlias {
+  /** Canonical id stored on the node + shown in the unified picker. */
+  base: string
+  /** KIE id to use when an input image is present (image-to-video). */
+  i2v: string
+  /** KIE id to use for pure text-to-video. */
+  t2v: string
+}
+
+export const VIDEO_MODE_ALIASES: readonly VideoModeAlias[] = [
+  { base: "grok-i2v", i2v: "grok-i2v", t2v: "grok" },
+  { base: "wan-i2v", i2v: "wan-i2v", t2v: "wan" },
+  { base: "wan-2.7-i2v", i2v: "wan-2.7-i2v", t2v: "wan-2.7-t2v" },
+  // HappyHorse: happyhorse/image-to-video + happyhorse/text-to-video are mode
+  // twins of one KIE model family — previously TWO unified-picker rows, and the
+  // i2v row crashed the t2v route when run without an image.
+  { base: "happyhorse-i2v", i2v: "happyhorse-i2v", t2v: "happyhorse" },
+] as const
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a (possibly base / cross-mode) video provider id to the concrete KIE
+ * id for the given execution mode. Accepts any member id of an alias group
+ * (base, i2v, or t2v) so existing workflows that stored either mode's id keep
+ * working. Non-aliased providers (single-id models, VEO, Replicate, etc.) pass
+ * through unchanged.
+ */
+export function resolveVideoProviderForMode(
+  provider: string,
+  mode: "image-to-video" | "text-to-video",
+): string {
+  for (const g of VIDEO_MODE_ALIASES) {
+    if (provider === g.base || provider === g.i2v || provider === g.t2v) {
+      return mode === "image-to-video" ? g.i2v : g.t2v
+    }
+  }
+  return provider
+}
+
+/**
+ * t2v twin ids hidden from the unified Generate Video picker — the i2v/base
+ * entry already represents both modes (execution remaps by image presence).
+ * Only includes twins whose `base` is NOT the t2v id, so the surviving picker
+ * entry is the base. Consumed by the frontend `VIDEO_GEN_MODELS` collapse.
+ */
+export const VIDEO_GEN_COLLAPSED_T2V_IDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(
+  VIDEO_MODE_ALIASES.filter((g) => g.t2v !== g.base).map((g) => g.t2v),
+)
+
+/** Video-to-video providers */
+export const VIDEO_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS = [
+  "wan",
+  "wan-flash",
+  "wan-videoedit",
+  "luma-modify",
+  "runway-aleph",
+  "happyhorse-edit",
+] as const
+export type VideoToVideoProvider = typeof VIDEO_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Face swap providers */
+export const FACE_SWAP_PROVIDERS = [
+  "roop",
+] as const
+export type FaceSwapProvider = typeof FACE_SWAP_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Video upscale providers */
+export const VIDEO_UPSCALE_PROVIDERS = [
+  "topaz",
+  "veo-1080p",
+  "veo-4k",
+] as const
+export type VideoUpscaleProvider = typeof VIDEO_UPSCALE_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Extend video providers */
+export const EXTEND_VIDEO_PROVIDERS = [
+  "veo-extend",
+  "runway-extend",
+  "ltx-2.3-pro",
+  "seedance-2-extend",
+] as const
+export type ExtendVideoProvider = typeof EXTEND_VIDEO_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Lip sync providers */
+export const LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS = [
+  "kling-avatar",
+  "kling-avatar-pro",
+  "infinitalk",
+  // ByteDance OmniHuman 1.5 — KIE image+audio avatar, prompt-directed
+  // performance, per-second billed, 60s audio cap. Routes the default KIE
+  // path (not in any replicate/fal/seedance/video-input set).
+  "omnihuman-1-5",
+  "latentsync",
+  "wav2lip",
+  "video-retalking",
+  "sadtalker",
+  // HeyGen Lipsync Precision + Sync Lipsync 2 Pro — Replicate-hosted, video-input
+  // dubbing models billed per second of output. Routed through replicateLipSync;
+  // priced per-second via buildLipSyncCreditId (see lip-sync-pricing.ts).
+  "heygen-lipsync-precision",
+  "lipsync-2-pro",
+  // Sync Lipsync v3 — fal.ai-hosted, video-input dubbing model billed per
+  // second of output (/min). Routed through falLipSync (the worker's fal
+  // branch); priced per-second via buildLipSyncCreditId (see lip-sync-pricing.ts).
+  "sync-lipsync-v3",
+  // Volcengine video-to-video lip sync — KIE-hosted, VIDEO-input AI dubbing
+  // (mode lite/basic; multi-speaker scene-detection + speaker ID in basic).
+  // Billed per-second via buildLipSyncCreditId; routed through the KIE
+  // `lipSyncVideo` path (KieModelConfig.inputKind === "video"), NOT the
+  // image+prompt `lipSync` path.
+  "volcengine-lipsync",
+  // Seedance 2 / 2 Fast — not "lip-sync models" per se, but ByteDance's
+  // multimodal video models do native phoneme-level lip sync in 8+
+  // languages when fed `reference_audio_urls` alongside a `first_frame_url`.
+  // Routed through the i2v provider with the audio passed as a reference,
+  // not the dedicated lip-sync flow.
+  "seedance-2",
+  "seedance-2-fast",
+  "seedance-2-mini",
+] as const
+export type LipSyncProvider = typeof LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Seedance variants exposed via the lip-sync surface. They go through
+ *  the i2v provider with the audio plumbed as `reference_audio_urls`. */
+export const SEEDANCE_LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS = new Set<string>([
+  "seedance-2",
+  "seedance-2-fast",
+  "seedance-2-mini",
+])
+
+/** Replicate-based lip-sync providers (video or image+audio via Replicate SDK) */
+export const REPLICATE_LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "latentsync",
+  "wav2lip",
+  "video-retalking",
+  "sadtalker",
+  "heygen-lipsync-precision",
+  "lipsync-2-pro",
+] as const)
+
+/** fal.ai-based lip-sync providers (video+audio → video via the fal queue API).
+ *  Routed through `falLipSync` in the worker's `handleLipSync` fal branch. */
+export const FAL_LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "sync-lipsync-v3",
+] as const)
+
+/** Lip-sync providers that require video input (not image) */
+export const VIDEO_INPUT_LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "latentsync",
+  "video-retalking",
+  "heygen-lipsync-precision",
+  "lipsync-2-pro",
+  "sync-lipsync-v3",
+  "volcengine-lipsync",
+] as const)
+
+/** Lip-sync providers that accept either video or image input */
+export const FLEXIBLE_INPUT_LIP_SYNC_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "wav2lip",
+] as const)
+
+/** Standard aspect ratio → pixel dimensions for composition nodes */
+export const ASPECT_RATIO_DIMENSIONS: Record<string, { width: number; height: number }> = {
+  "16:9": { width: 1920, height: 1080 },
+  "9:16": { width: 1080, height: 1920 },
+  "1:1": { width: 1080, height: 1080 },
+  "4:5": { width: 1080, height: 1350 },
+}
+
+/** Motion transfer providers */
+export const MOTION_TRANSFER_PROVIDERS = [
+  "kling",
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "wan-animate-move",
+  "wan-animate-replace",
+] as const
+export type MotionTransferProviderType = typeof MOTION_TRANSFER_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Text-to-speech providers */
+export const TTS_PROVIDERS = [
+  "elevenlabs-v3",
+  "elevenlabs-turbo",
+  "elevenlabs-multilingual",
+  "elevenlabs",
+] as const
+export type TtsProvider = typeof TTS_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Text-to-audio providers */
+export const TEXT_TO_AUDIO_PROVIDERS = [
+  // Replicate disabled
+  // "tangoflux",
+  "elevenlabs-sfx",
+] as const
+export type TextToAudioProvider = typeof TEXT_TO_AUDIO_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Music generation providers */
+export const MUSIC_PROVIDERS = [
+  // Replicate disabled
+  // "musicgen",
+  "minimax",
+  // TODO: surface Suno V5 here for discoverability — needs backend wiring
+  // through suno-client.ts (Suno uses /api/v1/generate, NOT the standard
+  // /api/v1/jobs/createTask path runKieTask uses). Tracked as a separate
+  // follow-up PR. Until then, Suno is reachable via the standalone
+  // `suno-generate` node.
+  // Replicate disabled
+  // "lyria",
+  // "bark",
+] as const
+export type MusicProvider = typeof MUSIC_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Transcription providers */
+export const TRANSCRIBE_PROVIDERS = [
+  // Replicate disabled
+  // "whisper",
+  // "incredibly-fast-whisper",
+  "elevenlabs-stt",
+] as const
+export type TranscribeProvider = typeof TRANSCRIBE_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Script generation providers */
+export const SCRIPT_PROVIDERS = [
+  "gemini",
+  "claude",
+  "gpt",
+] as const
+export type ScriptProvider = typeof SCRIPT_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** AI writer providers */
+export const AI_WRITER_PROVIDERS = [
+  "claude",
+] as const
+export type AiWriterProvider = typeof AI_WRITER_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** QA check providers */
+export const QA_CHECK_PROVIDERS = [
+  "claude",
+  "gpt",
+] as const
+export type QaCheckProvider = typeof QA_CHECK_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/** Suno model versions */
+export const SUNO_MODELS = [
+  "V4",
+  "V4_5",
+  "V4_5PLUS",
+  "V4_5ALL",
+  "V5",
+  "V5_5",
+] as const
+export type SunoModel = typeof SUNO_MODELS[number]
+
+/** Suno models that support add-instrumental / add-vocals operations */
+export const SUNO_ADD_TRACK_MODELS = ["V4_5PLUS", "V5", "V5_5"] as const
+export type SunoAddTrackModel = typeof SUNO_ADD_TRACK_MODELS[number]
+
+/** Voice design models */
+export const VOICE_DESIGN_MODELS = [
+  "eleven_ttv_v3",
+  "eleven_multilingual_ttv_v2",
+] as const
+export type VoiceDesignModel = typeof VOICE_DESIGN_MODELS[number]
+
+/**
+ * ElevenLabs' newest text-to-voice model (all languages) — the default when
+ * a voice-design caller omits `model`. Single-sourced here so the route
+ * (`backend/src/routes/voice-design.ts`) and the direct-API provider
+ * (`backend/src/providers/elevenlabs/voice-design.ts`) can't drift.
+ */
+export const DEFAULT_VOICE_DESIGN_MODEL: VoiceDesignModel = "eleven_ttv_v3"
+
+/** I2I providers that support mask-based inpainting */
+export const I2I_MASK_SUPPORT = new Set(["ideogram-edit"])
+
+/**
+ * Mask edit tier per image-gen provider (single source of truth for inpaint).
+ * - "native"    → provider takes a real mask param (reserved for Phase 1.5; none today)
+ * - "prompt"    → strong instruction editor; inject a region descriptor into the prompt
+ * - "composite" → rely on the always-on server-side composite floor only
+ * Floor (B·(1−M)+E·M) applies to EVERY tier, so any provider is correct.
+ */
+export type ImageMaskMode = "native" | "prompt" | "composite"
+
+export const IMAGE_MASK_MODE: Record<ImageGenProvider, ImageMaskMode> = {
+  "nano-banana": "prompt",
+  "nano-banana-pro": "prompt",
+  "nano-banana-2": "prompt",
+  "gpt-image": "prompt",
+  "gpt-image-2": "prompt",
+  "seedream": "prompt",
+  "seedream-5-lite": "prompt",
+  "qwen": "prompt",
+  "flux-kontext": "prompt",
+  "flux-kontext-max": "prompt",
+  "flux": "composite",
+  "flux-flex": "composite",
+  "grok": "composite",
+  "imagen4": "composite",
+  "imagen4-fast": "composite",
+  "imagen4-ultra": "composite",
+  "ideogram-v3": "composite",
+  "z-image": "composite",
+  "wan-2.7": "composite",
+  "wan-2.7-pro": "composite",
+  "flux-2-klein": "composite",
+  "flux-2-pro": "composite",
+  "flux-2-max": "composite",
+}
+
+/** I2I providers that support a strength/denoising parameter */
+export const I2I_STRENGTH_SUPPORT: Record<string, { min: number; max: number; step: number; default: number }> = {
+  "ideogram-remix": { min: 0.01, max: 1, step: 0.01, default: 0.8 },
+  "qwen-i2i": { min: 0, max: 1, step: 0.01, default: 0.8 },
+}
+
+/** Models that accept a seed parameter for reproducible generation */
+export const SEED_SUPPORT = new Set([
+  "ideogram-remix", "ideogram-reframe", "ideogram-v3",
+  "qwen", "qwen-i2i", "qwen-edit",
+  "flux", "flux-flex", "flux-i2i", "flux-pro-i2i", "flux-kontext", "flux-kontext-max",
+  "flux-2-klein", "kontext-multi",
+])
+
+/** Ideogram models that support rendering_speed selection (TURBO/BALANCED/QUALITY) */
+export const RENDERING_SPEED_SUPPORT = new Set([
+  "ideogram-remix", "ideogram-reframe", "ideogram-v3",
+])
+
+/** Models that accept guidance_scale for controlling prompt adherence */
+export const GUIDANCE_SCALE_SUPPORT: Record<string, { min: number; max: number; step: number; default: number }> = {
+  "qwen-i2i": { min: 1, max: 20, step: 0.5, default: 7 },
+  "qwen-edit": { min: 1, max: 20, step: 0.5, default: 7 },
+}
+
+// =====================================================================
+// Video variable pricing — duration-based and audio-addon pricing
+// =====================================================================
+
+/**
+ * Video models where credit cost varies by duration.
+ * Maps provider key → duration tier breakpoints.
+ * Values are verified by the pricing verification script (backend/scripts/verify-kie-pricing.ts).
+ * TODO: Run verification script and update costs after confirming actual KIE pricing.
+ */
+export const DURATION_PRICED_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "seedance-2-extend",
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "kling-3-omni",
+  "kling",
+  "kling-turbo",
+  "kling-master",
+  "grok-i2v",
+  "wan-i2v",
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro",
+  "hailuo-2.3",
+  "hailuo-standard",
+  "seedance",
+  "seedance-2",
+  "seedance-2-fast",
+  "seedance-2-mini",
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5",
+])
+
+/**
+ * Seedance 2.0 family — shared across UI gating, payload building, and pricing.
+ * Expanded whenever a new Seedance 2.x variant ships.
+ */
+export const SEEDANCE_2_PROVIDERS = new Set<string>([
+  "seedance-2",
+  "seedance-2-fast",
+  "seedance-2-mini",
+])
+
+export function isSeedance2Provider(provider: string | undefined): boolean {
+  return !!provider && SEEDANCE_2_PROVIDERS.has(provider)
+}
+
+/**
+ * Default aspect ratio for a video provider when the node carries no explicit
+ * `aspectRatio`. Seedance 2.x defaults to `"adaptive"` (output matches the
+ * wired input — fits the unified-inputs model); every other provider keeps the
+ * historical `"16:9"`. Single source of truth so every run-default / display-
+ * fallback site stays in lock-step (preview = run). Applies to ALL Seedance
+ * modes incl. text-to-video — KIE accepts `adaptive` there too.
+ */
+export function defaultVideoAspectRatio(provider: string | undefined): string {
+  return isSeedance2Provider(provider) ? "adaptive" : "16:9"
+}
+
+/**
+ * Google VEO family (Quality / Fast / Lite). VEO goes through its own KIE
+ * endpoint and image-handling path, so callers branch on this in several places.
+ */
+export const VEO_PROVIDERS = new Set<string>([
+  "veo3",
+  "veo3.1",
+  "veo3_lite",
+])
+
+export function isVeoProvider(provider: string | undefined): boolean {
+  return !!provider && VEO_PROVIDERS.has(provider)
+}
+
+/** KIE.ai limits for Seedance 2.0 multimodal reference arrays. */
+export const SEEDANCE_2_REF_LIMITS = {
+  images: 9,
+  videos: 3,
+  audio: 3,
+} as const
+
+/**
+ * Trim-stitch parameters for the seedance-2-extend provider (spike-validated
+ * 2026-06-11):
+ * the model's extension output wobbles for its first ~3 frames and the source
+ * tail's last ~4 frames lead into it; dropping both and butt-joining yields a
+ * seam SMOOTHER than ordinary in-clip motion (PSNR 34.4dB vs 30.6dB
+ * adjacent-frame baseline). The 0.15s timeline-anchored audio fades kill
+ * boundary clicks without shifting sync (combineVideos cut+crossfade path).
+ */
+export const SEEDANCE_2_EXTEND_STITCH = {
+  /** Frames dropped from the END of the source clip. */
+  trimTailFrames: 4,
+  /** Frames dropped from the START of the generated extension. */
+  trimHeadFrames: 3,
+  /** Boundary audio fade length (seconds), timeline-preserving. */
+  audioFadeSec: 0.15,
+} as const
+
+/**
+ * Per-provider max reference-audio duration (seconds) for Seedance 2.0 r2v
+ * (audio-driven image-to-video). KIE rejects longer clips with a 400 BEFORE
+ * generation (e.g. "audio duration must be ≤ 15.2 for dreamina-seedance-2-0-fast
+ * in r2v"). Data-driven: only providers with a VERIFIED limit are listed, so an
+ * unknown provider is never false-rejected.
+ *   - seedance-2-fast: 15.2s (verified against KIE).
+ *   - seedance-2 (non-fast): limit unverified → not enforced yet (add after
+ *     confirming via docs.kie.ai).
+ */
+export const SEEDANCE_2_R2V_MAX_AUDIO_SEC_BY_PROVIDER: Record<string, number> = {
+  "seedance-2-fast": 15.2,
+}
+
+/** The verified r2v reference-audio cap (seconds) for a provider, or null when
+ *  none is enforced. */
+export function seedance2AudioLimitSec(provider: string | undefined): number | null {
+  if (!provider) return null
+  return SEEDANCE_2_R2V_MAX_AUDIO_SEC_BY_PROVIDER[provider] ?? null
+}
+
+/**
+ * First reference-audio duration (seconds) that exceeds the provider's r2v cap,
+ * or null when all are within limit (or the provider has no enforced cap).
+ * Non-finite durations (probe failures) are ignored. Used to reject over-long
+ * audio BEFORE submitting to the provider — which would otherwise 400.
+ */
+export function findSeedance2AudioOverLimit(
+  provider: string | undefined,
+  durationsSec: readonly number[],
+): number | null {
+  const limit = seedance2AudioLimitSec(provider)
+  if (limit === null) return null
+  for (const d of durationsSec) {
+    if (Number.isFinite(d) && d > limit) return d
+  }
+  return null
+}
+
+/**
+ * Per-provider connection caps for the typed reference handles on Generate Video
+ * AND the cap for the server-side `connectedReferences` assembly (`imageCap`).
+ *
+ * The KEY SET is bound 1:1 to MODEL_CATALOG (kind:"video" + features:
+ * ["reference-image"]) by the drift guard in `__tests__/video-ref-limits.test.ts`:
+ * adding a ref-capable video model to the catalog without a cap here — or a cap
+ * here without the catalog flag — fails CI. So the CATALOG is the single source
+ * for "is this model ref-capable", and this map is the single source for the
+ * NUMERIC caps (sourced from the provider configs, see per-line notes).
+ * Providers absent from the map = 0 caps (the popover dims the handle with
+ * "Not supported by [Model]"; the API assembly strips `{image:N}` tokens).
+ */
+export const VIDEO_REF_LIMITS_BY_PROVIDER: Record<
+  string,
+  { images?: number; videos?: number; audio?: number } | undefined
+> = {
+  // Seedance 2 — full multimodal caps.
+  "seedance-2": { ...SEEDANCE_2_REF_LIMITS },
+  "seedance-2-fast": { ...SEEDANCE_2_REF_LIMITS },
+  "seedance-2-mini": { ...SEEDANCE_2_REF_LIMITS },
+  // Multi-image reference providers.
+  "gemini-omni-video": { images: 7, videos: 1 },
+  "kling-3-omni": { images: 7 },     // catalog/docs: "end frame + up to 7 reference images"
+  "grok-i2v": { images: 7 },         // backend kie/models.ts maxRefImages: 7
+  "happyhorse-ref2v": { images: 9 }, // backend kie/models.ts maxRefImages: 9
+  // VEO 3.x — REFERENCE_2_VIDEO path caps refs at 3 (kie/video.ts slice(0, 3)).
+  "veo3": { images: 3 },
+  "veo3.1": { images: 3 },
+  "veo3_lite": { images: 3 },
+  // NOTE: wan-i2v / hailuo-2.3[-pro] / bytedance-pro[-fast] / grok-imagine-video-1.5
+  // are deliberately ABSENT. The 2026-06-28 audit (video-reference-features.test.ts)
+  // verified backend reference-forwarding paths and these i2v models have none —
+  // a single image_url start frame only. Advertising a ref cap would silently drop
+  // the user's references (the grok-imagine-video-1.5 bug). Add only with a
+  // verified provider path + the catalog `reference-image` feature.
+}
+
+/**
+ * Video models where credit cost depends on resolution AND whether a video
+ * reference is connected. Identifier suffix: `:{resolution}[-ref]`.
+ * Seedance 2.0 family uses per-second billing split 480p/720p × with-ref/no-ref.
+ */
+export const RESOLUTION_VIDEO_REF_PRICING = SEEDANCE_2_PROVIDERS
+
+/**
+ * Video models priced by (duration × resolution) WITHOUT a video-ref dimension.
+ * Identifier suffix: `:{resolution}`, appended after the duration tier; value =
+ * the provider's PRICED resolution tiers. Any resolution outside the list
+ * (or undefined) collapses to the FIRST entry — the provider's default tier —
+ * so the builder can never emit an unpriced composite (the hard-fail guard
+ * fuzzes the full resolution space). Distinct from
+ * RESOLUTION_VIDEO_REF_PRICING (Seedance gen), which also adds `-ref` variants.
+ */
+export const RESOLUTION_DURATION_PRICING: Record<string, readonly string[]> = {
+  // KIE supports only 480p/720p here; 480p is the default.
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5": ["480p", "720p"],
+  // seedance-2-extend always uses a video ref, so pricing has no -ref
+  // dimension — duration tier + ":res" only (rates = seedance-2 -ref + stitch).
+  "seedance-2-extend": ["480p", "720p", "1080p"],
+}
+
+/**
+ * Video generation models whose provider API natively accepts a "match the
+ * visual input's aspect" token, mapped to that provider's EXACT token.
+ * Consumed by the backend's `resolveSourceMatchedAspect`: members get the
+ * native token (no probe round-trip, exact match even for off-catalog ratios
+ * like 4:5); everyone else falls back to ffprobe + closest catalog ratio.
+ *
+ * Only add entries whose match-the-input semantics are verified against the
+ * provider's docs AND a live job — e.g. grok-imagine-video-1.5 accepts
+ * "auto", but that means "provider default", NOT "match input", so it does
+ * not belong here.
+ *
+ * seedance-2 family: `adaptive` per docs.kie.ai/market/bytedance/seedance-2
+ * + seedance-2-fast (enum'd alongside the fixed ratios; default 16:9).
+ */
+export const NATIVE_ADAPTIVE_ASPECT: Record<string, string> = {
+  "seedance-2": "adaptive",
+  "seedance-2-fast": "adaptive",
+  "seedance-2-mini": "adaptive",
+}
+
+/**
+ * Video providers that REQUIRE an input image (image-to-video only) even though
+ * they're listed in TEXT_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS for unified-node visibility. The
+ * `/v1/text-to-video` route early-returns a clean 400 for these before any job
+ * is created, instead of letting the prompt-only request fail at the provider.
+ *
+ * DERIVED from MODEL_CATALOG (the capability source of truth): every video
+ * model whose `modes` lacks "t2v" and that isn't remapped to a t2v twin by
+ * VIDEO_MODE_ALIASES. Hand-listing this set is what let kling-3-omni,
+ * kling-master, hailuo-2.3(-pro), bytedance-pro-fast and happyhorse-ref2v
+ * crash the t2v route with a raw Zod enum error — new i2v-only models now get
+ * the friendly gate automatically when their catalog entry is added.
+ */
+export const VIDEO_PROVIDERS_REQUIRING_IMAGE: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(
+  Object.values(MODEL_CATALOG)
+    .filter((m) =>
+      m.kind === "video" &&
+      m.modes.includes("i2v") &&
+      !m.modes.includes("t2v") &&
+      (VIDEO_GEN_PROVIDERS as readonly string[]).includes(m.id) &&
+      resolveVideoProviderForMode(m.id, "text-to-video") === m.id,
+    )
+    .map((m) => m.id),
+)
+
+/** True when a video provider can only run image-to-video (image required). */
+export function videoProviderRequiresImage(provider: string | undefined): boolean {
+  return !!provider && VIDEO_PROVIDERS_REQUIRING_IMAGE.has(provider)
+}
+
+/**
+ * Video models where enabling audio/sound incurs an additional cost.
+ * The audio addon is expressed as a separate composite identifier suffix.
+ */
+export const AUDIO_ADDON_PROVIDERS = new Set([
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "kling",
+])
+
+/**
+ * How a video model handles an audio track. Single source of truth for
+ * audio/speech capability across the whole stack — the config-panel audio
+ * toggle (show / lock / disable + warn), the Story→Video dialogue auto-pick
+ * (revoice vs TTS + lip-sync), provider option wiring (`sound` vs
+ * `generateAudio`), and the audio credit suffix.
+ *
+ * Consolidates signals that were previously scattered + inconsistent:
+ *   - `KIE_VIDEO_MODELS` / `KIE_TEXT_TO_VIDEO_MODELS` `extraParams.sound` (Kling)
+ *   - `…extraParams.generate_audio` (Seedance)
+ *   - VEO native audio (implicit, always on)
+ *   - `AUDIO_ADDON_PROVIDERS` (cost) + `SEEDANCE_2_PROVIDERS` (reference audio)
+ *
+ *   "none"          — silent model; no audio output. UI disables the audio
+ *                     toggle with an explanatory note; the pipeline uses TTS +
+ *                     lip-sync for any dialogue.
+ *   "ambient"       — generates ambient sound / SFX matched to the scene, NOT
+ *                     lip-synced spoken dialogue. Toggle is offered; the
+ *                     pipeline still uses TTS + lip-sync for dialogue.
+ *   "native_speech" — bakes spoken dialogue + lip movement from the prompt
+ *                     (VEO 3.x). The pipeline injects the dialogue line, enables
+ *                     audio, and revoices the clip to the character's saved voice.
+ *   "audio_driven"  — lip-syncs to a supplied reference-audio track (Seedance
+ *                     2.0 multimodal). The pipeline synthesises the character's
+ *                     voice first, feeds it as reference audio, and skips the
+ *                     separate lip-sync pass.
+ */
+export type VideoAudioMode = "none" | "ambient" | "native_speech" | "audio_driven"
+
+export interface VideoAudioCapability {
+  mode: VideoAudioMode
+  /** Provider-option field carrying the on/off toggle, when user-controllable. */
+  field?: "generateAudio" | "sound"
+  /** Audio is always produced and can't be turned off by the user (VEO 3.x). */
+  alwaysOn?: boolean
+  /** Enabling audio raises the credit cost (Kling — see AUDIO_ADDON_PROVIDERS). */
+  affectsCost?: boolean
+}
+
+/**
+ * Per-model audio capability. Only models that produce SOME audio are listed;
+ * anything absent defaults to `{ mode: "none" }` via `getVideoAudioCapability`,
+ * so silent models (minimax, hailuo, wan, grok-i2v, gemini-omni-video, runway,
+ * pika, …) need no entry. New audio-capable models MUST be added here — the
+ * `video-audio-capability` guard test cross-checks this map against the model
+ * configs' `extraParams.sound` / `generate_audio` + VEO/Seedance-2 sets so a
+ * forgotten entry fails CI rather than silently disabling audio.
+ */
+export const VIDEO_AUDIO_CAPABILITY: Record<string, VideoAudioCapability> = {
+  // VEO 3.x — native spoken dialogue + lip movement; always on (no toggle).
+  veo3: { mode: "native_speech", alwaysOn: true },
+  "veo3.1": { mode: "native_speech", alwaysOn: true },
+  veo3_lite: { mode: "native_speech", alwaysOn: true },
+  // Kling 2.6 / 3.0 — ambient sound/SFX toggle; not lip-synced speech. Cost-affecting.
+  kling: { mode: "ambient", field: "sound", affectsCost: true },
+  "kling-3.0": { mode: "ambient", field: "sound", affectsCost: true },
+  // Seedance 1.x — optional ambient audio (generate_audio); not dialogue.
+  seedance: { mode: "ambient", field: "generateAudio" },
+  // Seedance 2.0 — multimodal; lip-syncs to a supplied reference-audio track.
+  "seedance-2": { mode: "audio_driven", field: "generateAudio" },
+  "seedance-2-fast": { mode: "audio_driven", field: "generateAudio" },
+  "seedance-2-mini": { mode: "audio_driven", field: "generateAudio" },
+}
+
+const VIDEO_AUDIO_NONE: VideoAudioCapability = { mode: "none" }
+
+/** Audio capability for a video model. Unlisted/undefined → silent (`none`). */
+export function getVideoAudioCapability(
+  model: string | undefined,
+): VideoAudioCapability {
+  return (model ? VIDEO_AUDIO_CAPABILITY[model] : undefined) ?? VIDEO_AUDIO_NONE
+}
+
+/**
+ * True when the model produces any audio track at all. Drives the config-panel
+ * audio toggle: `false` → disable the toggle + show a "this model has no audio"
+ * note (never restrict the model choice — just explain the limitation).
+ */
+export function videoModelSupportsAudio(model: string | undefined): boolean {
+  return getVideoAudioCapability(model).mode !== "none"
+}
+
+/**
+ * True when the model can produce lip-synced spoken DIALOGUE — either natively
+ * (VEO) or driven by a supplied audio track (Seedance 2.0). Drives the Story→Video
+ * dialogue auto-pick: in-model speech + character revoice (VEO) / character-voiced
+ * reference audio (Seedance 2.0) vs. the TTS + separate-lip-sync fallback.
+ * Ambient-only models (Kling, Seedance 1.x) return `false` — their audio is SFX,
+ * not speech.
+ */
+export function videoModelCanSpeakDialogue(model: string | undefined): boolean {
+  const mode = getVideoAudioCapability(model).mode
+  return mode === "native_speech" || mode === "audio_driven"
+}
+
+/**
+ * Write the caller's neutral "enable native audio" intent onto a KIE provider
+ * `input` under whichever field the chosen model actually reads, per
+ * `VIDEO_AUDIO_CAPABILITY.field`. This is the single dispatch point that fixes
+ * the recurring "sound toggle dropped on Seedance/VEO" bug class: callers pass
+ * the model-agnostic toggle ONCE and never need to know that Kling's lever is
+ * `sound` while Seedance's is `generate_audio`.
+ *
+ * - `sound` is the canonical neutral name; `generateAudio` is accepted as a
+ *   legacy alias (the workflow node + some clients send that key). `sound` wins
+ *   if both are present.
+ * - **Cost-affecting models (Kling) honour ONLY the canonical `sound` lever** —
+ *   the same field the `:audio` credit surcharge keys off (`AUDIO_ADDON_PROVIDERS`
+ *   in `credit-identifiers.ts`). This makes a billed-but-not-generated (or
+ *   generated-but-not-billed) divergence structurally impossible: the model and
+ *   the surcharge read the same flag. Free models accept the `generateAudio`
+ *   alias too, where mis-billing isn't possible.
+ * - No-op for `alwaysOn` models (VEO — audio can't be toggled) and silent /
+ *   unlisted models (no `field`), and when the caller expressed no intent
+ *   (leaves the model's own default in place).
+ *
+ * Future audio models are covered automatically by adding a
+ * `VIDEO_AUDIO_CAPABILITY` entry — already guarded by the
+ * `video-audio-capability` drift test, so this never silently regresses.
+ */
+export function applyVideoAudioToggle(
+  input: Record<string, unknown>,
+  provider: string | undefined,
+  opts: { sound?: boolean; generateAudio?: boolean } | undefined,
+): void {
+  const cap = getVideoAudioCapability(provider)
+  if (!cap.field) return // alwaysOn (VEO) or silent/unlisted model — nothing to toggle
+  // Cost-affecting models stay on the canonical `sound` lever so the model and
+  // the credit surcharge can never read different flags; free models also accept
+  // the `generateAudio` alias. `sound` is canonical and wins when both are set.
+  const enabled = cap.affectsCost ? opts?.sound : (opts?.sound ?? opts?.generateAudio)
+  if (enabled === undefined) return // no intent — keep the model's own default
+  if (cap.field === "generateAudio") input.generate_audio = enabled
+  else input.sound = enabled
+}
+
+/**
+ * Video models where a quality/mode parameter (e.g., videoSize "high") incurs higher cost.
+ * When provider is in this set and mode is "high", ":high" is appended to the identifier.
+ */
+export const MODE_ADDON_PROVIDERS = new Set<string>([
+])
+
+/**
+ * VEO 3.x providers where credit cost depends on the requested output
+ * resolution (720p default vs 1080p inline; 4K is via the separate
+ * upgrade endpoint and isn't part of this set). When provider is in
+ * this set and resolution !== "720p", `:1080p` is appended to the
+ * identifier so the credit lookup hits the per-resolution rate.
+ *
+ * Per KIE pricing (verified 2026-05-06):
+ *   veo3.1 (Fast): 720p=60 KIE cr, 1080p=65 KIE cr
+ *   veo3_lite:    720p=30 KIE cr, 1080p=35 KIE cr
+ *   veo3 (Quality) is not in this set yet — pricing not in our reference data.
+ */
+export const VEO_RESOLUTION_TIERED_PROVIDERS = new Set<string>([
+  "veo3.1",
+  "veo3_lite",
+])
+
+/**
+ * Video variable pricing config — which params affect credit cost per model.
+ * "duration" = cost varies by video length
+ * "duration+audio" = cost varies by length AND audio on/off
+ */
+export const VIDEO_VARIABLE_PRICING: Record<string, "duration" | "duration+audio" | "duration+mode" | "duration+resolution+ref" | "duration+resolution"> = {
+  "kling-3.0": "duration+audio",
+  "kling-3-omni": "duration",
+  "kling": "duration+audio",
+  "kling-turbo": "duration",
+  "kling-master": "duration",
+  "grok-i2v": "duration",
+  "wan-i2v": "duration",
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro": "duration",
+  "hailuo-2.3": "duration",
+  "hailuo-standard": "duration",
+  "seedance": "duration",
+  "seedance-2": "duration+resolution+ref",
+  "seedance-2-fast": "duration+resolution+ref",
+  "seedance-2-mini": "duration+resolution+ref",
+  // Grok Imagine Video 1.5 — per-second billing split 480p/720p (no video-ref dimension).
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5": "duration+resolution",
+}
+
+/**
+ * Duration tier breakpoints for variable-priced video models.
+ * Maps provider → array of { maxSeconds, suffix } in ascending order.
+ * The first tier whose maxSeconds >= requested duration is used.
+ */
+export const VIDEO_DURATION_TIERS: Record<string, Array<{ maxSeconds: number; suffix: string }>> = {
+  "kling-3.0": [
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "kling-3-omni": [
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "kling": [
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  ],
+  "kling-turbo": [
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  ],
+  "kling-master": [
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  ],
+  "grok-i2v": [
+    { maxSeconds: 6, suffix: "6s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "wan-i2v": [
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro": [
+    { maxSeconds: 6, suffix: "6s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  ],
+  "hailuo-2.3": [
+    { maxSeconds: 6, suffix: "6s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  ],
+  "hailuo-standard": [
+    { maxSeconds: 6, suffix: "6s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  ],
+  "seedance": [
+    { maxSeconds: 4, suffix: "4s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 8, suffix: "8s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 12, suffix: "12s" },
+  ],
+  "seedance-2": [
+    { maxSeconds: 4, suffix: "4s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 8, suffix: "8s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 12, suffix: "12s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "seedance-2-mini": [
+    { maxSeconds: 4, suffix: "4s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 8, suffix: "8s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 12, suffix: "12s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "seedance-2-extend": [
+    { maxSeconds: 4, suffix: "4s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 8, suffix: "8s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 12, suffix: "12s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  "seedance-2-fast": [
+    { maxSeconds: 4, suffix: "4s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 8, suffix: "8s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 12, suffix: "12s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+  // Grok Imagine Video 1.5 — true per-second billing (KIE 14.5 cr/s @480p, 25 cr/s
+  // @720p, +2 cr/image). One tier per allowed second (1–15s) so the composite
+  // identifier maps 1:1 to the seeded price — no rounding/overcharge for any on-menu value.
+  "grok-imagine-video-1.5": [
+    { maxSeconds: 1, suffix: "1s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 2, suffix: "2s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 3, suffix: "3s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 4, suffix: "4s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 6, suffix: "6s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 7, suffix: "7s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 8, suffix: "8s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 9, suffix: "9s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 11, suffix: "11s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 12, suffix: "12s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 13, suffix: "13s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 14, suffix: "14s" },
+    { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  ],
+}
+
+/**
+ * Maps composer node types to their plan type identifier and the node data field
+ * where the plan is stored. Used by render-video payload building, plan syncing,
+ * and the frontend DAG executor.
+ */
+export const COMPOSER_PLAN_MAP: Readonly<Record<string, { planType: string; planField: string }>> = {
+  "video-composer": { planType: "scene-graph", planField: "sceneGraph" },
+  "after-effects": { planType: "after-effects", planField: "effectPlan" },
+  "lottie-overlay": { planType: "lottie-overlay", planField: "overlayPlan" },
+  "3d-title": { planType: "3d-title", planField: "titlePlan" },
+  "motion-graphics": { planType: "motion-graphics", planField: "motionPlan" },
+  "composite": { planType: "composite", planField: "compositePlan" },
+}
+
+/** Every composer plan-field name, derived from COMPOSER_PLAN_MAP (single source
+ *  of truth — consumed by preset plan-state hygiene and job-output extraction). */
+export const COMPOSER_PLAN_FIELDS: readonly string[] = [
+  ...new Set(Object.values(COMPOSER_PLAN_MAP).map((m) => m.planField)),
+]
+
+/**
+ * Duration tier breakpoints for motion control pricing (per-second billing).
+ * Same shape as VIDEO_DURATION_TIERS entries but with 30s tier for long reference videos.
+ */
+export const MOTION_DURATION_TIERS: ReadonlyArray<{ maxSeconds: number; suffix: string }> = [
+  { maxSeconds: 5, suffix: "5s" },
+  { maxSeconds: 10, suffix: "10s" },
+  { maxSeconds: 15, suffix: "15s" },
+  { maxSeconds: 30, suffix: "30s" },
+]
+
+/** Curated i2v providers compatible with character portrait reference input.
+ *  Subset of IMAGE_TO_VIDEO_PROVIDERS — excludes text-to-video-only models. */
+export const CHARACTER_MOTION_PROVIDERS = [
+  "kling",
+  "kling-turbo",
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "wan-i2v",
+  "wan-2.7-i2v",
+] as const
+export type CharacterMotionProvider = typeof CHARACTER_MOTION_PROVIDERS[number]
+
+/**
+ * Atmospheric video providers available to the Location Studio's motion tab.
+ *
+ * Tuned for ambient camera moves (dolly, pan, drift, parallax) rather than
+ * character-driven motion. Subset of registered i2v providers; `seedance-2`
+ * added as the cinematic option for establishing shots.
+ *
+ * Mirrors `CHARACTER_MOTION_PROVIDERS` shape — see entity-prompts.ts for the
+ * naming convention.
+ */
+export const LOCATION_ATMOSPHERE_PROVIDERS = [
+  "kling",
+  "kling-turbo",
+  "kling-3.0",
+  "wan-i2v",
+  "wan-2.7-i2v",
+  "seedance-2",
+] as const
+export type LocationAtmosphereProvider =
+  (typeof LOCATION_ATMOSPHERE_PROVIDERS)[number]
+
+/**
+ * Subset of i2v providers tuned for short ambient object-motion clips (rotate,
+ * hover, spin, parallax). Excludes premium models (Veo3, Veo3.1, Grok-i2v,
+ * Sora2, Sora2-pro, Hailuo-2.3-pro) which are cost-prohibitive for the
+ * product-loop use case (several times kling-turbo's per-clip cost).
+ * Phase 2 candidate for adding veo3.1 if demand for premium hero shots
+ * materializes.
+ */
+export const OBJECT_MOTION_PROVIDERS = [
+  "kling-turbo",      // 5s, fast, cheap (10 credits) — default
+  "kling",            // 5/10s
+  "kling-3.0",        // 3-15s, premium
+  "minimax",          // 5s, end-frame support
+  "hailuo-2.3",       // 6/10s
+  "wan-i2v",          // 5/10/15s
+  "seedance",         // 4/8/12s
+  "bytedance-lite",   // 5/10s
+] as const
+export type ObjectMotionProvider = (typeof OBJECT_MOTION_PROVIDERS)[number]
+
+// =====================================================================
+// Scene Input Modes + Video Model Capability Registry (v4.0 + v4.1 spec §6.10)
+// =====================================================================
+
+/**
+ * SceneInputMode — the input-shape contract a video model exposes to the
+ * Scene Director. Gates which `video_model` values are valid for a given
+ * scene's `shot_input_mode`. Consumed by Scene Director LLM prompting,
+ * route Zod validation, and the frontend SceneNode config panel.
+ *
+ * See architecture spec §6.10 + v4.1 Methods 2/3/8/10 for per-mode semantics.
+ */
+export const SceneInputModeSchema = z.enum([
+  "text", // text-to-video
+  "first_frame", // i2v with start image only
+  "first_last_frame", // i2v with paired start+end (v4.1 Method 2)
+  "ref_images", // multi-ref consistency models
+  "multi_shot", // native multi-shot models (Kling Omni, Seedance multi)
+  "video_continuation", // v4.1 Method 3 — extend prior clip (VEO extend, Seedance video-ref)
+  "frame_interpolation", // v4.1 Method 8 — N sparse keyframes → interpolated video
+  "camera_path", // v4.1 Method 10 — parametric 3D camera path
+])
+export type SceneInputMode = z.infer<typeof SceneInputModeSchema>
+
+/**
+ * Prompting style each model expects from the Scene Director.
+ * Veo-family wants comma-separated cinematic tags; Kling-family wants
+ * natural-language prose; Hailuo-family wants compact single-sentence prompts.
+ */
+export type ModelPromptingStyle =
+  | "cinematic_tag_heavy" // Veo-family — comma-separated tags
+  | "natural_language" // Kling-family — prose descriptions
+  | "compact" // Hailuo-family — single-sentence
+
+export interface VideoModelCapabilities {
+  inputModes: SceneInputMode[]
+  maxShotsPerCall?: number // for multi_shot models
+  supportsLipSyncIntegrated?: boolean // Kling Avatar / VEO-3 etc
+  supportsVideoExtension?: boolean // v4.1 Method 3
+  supportsCameraPath?: boolean // v4.1 Method 10
+  maxInterpolationKeyframes?: number // v4.1 Method 8
+  maxDurationSeconds: number
+  prompting_style: ModelPromptingStyle
+  /**
+   * Maximum number of reference IMAGES the model accepts in one call,
+   * including the start frame. Drives `allocateReferenceSlots` in
+   * `backend/src/ee/pipelines/continuity.ts` (Phase 1C.1 §5.13.3) — when
+   * the budget is 1, multi-shot/character/object refs are silently
+   * dropped and the slot allocator emits a `pipeline:warning` event.
+   * Defaults to 1 when omitted.
+   */
+  maxReferenceImages?: number
+}
+
+/**
+ * VIDEO_MODEL_CAPS — single source of truth for what each video model supports.
+ * Consumed by: Scene Director LLM (filters eligible models), route Zod validation
+ * (rejects invalid video_model for the chosen shot_input_mode), frontend SceneNode
+ * config panel (filters dropdown options).
+ *
+ * Adding a new video model: add an entry here, run audit-providers skill to verify
+ * downstream wiring.
+ */
+export const VIDEO_MODEL_CAPS: Record<string, VideoModelCapabilities> = {
+  "kling": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "first_last_frame", "text"],
+    maxDurationSeconds: 10,
+    prompting_style: "natural_language",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  "kling-3-omni": {
+    inputModes: ["ref_images", "multi_shot"],
+    maxShotsPerCall: 5,
+    maxDurationSeconds: 15,
+    prompting_style: "natural_language",
+    // Kling Omni accepts a strong multi-ref budget (start frame + up to
+    // ~6 character/scene refs). Drives `allocateReferenceSlots` in
+    // continuity.ts to surface all of them.
+    maxReferenceImages: 7,
+  },
+  "veo3.1": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "text", "video_continuation"],
+    supportsVideoExtension: true,
+    maxDurationSeconds: 8,
+    prompting_style: "cinematic_tag_heavy",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  "seedance-2": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "first_last_frame", "ref_images", "video_continuation"],
+    supportsVideoExtension: true,
+    maxDurationSeconds: 10,
+    prompting_style: "natural_language",
+    // SEEDANCE_2_REF_LIMITS.images is the hard upper bound (9). 1C.1
+    // caps to a more conservative 5 to leave headroom for primary
+    // character + location + 3 secondary refs.
+    maxReferenceImages: 5,
+  },
+  "hailuo-2.3-pro": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "text"],
+    maxDurationSeconds: 10,
+    prompting_style: "compact",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  "hailuo-standard": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "first_last_frame"],
+    maxDurationSeconds: 6,
+    prompting_style: "compact",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  "minimax": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "first_last_frame"],
+    maxDurationSeconds: 6,
+    prompting_style: "compact",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  "kling-turbo": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "first_last_frame"],
+    maxDurationSeconds: 10,
+    prompting_style: "natural_language",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  "bytedance-lite": {
+    inputModes: ["first_frame", "first_last_frame"],
+    maxDurationSeconds: 10,
+    prompting_style: "compact",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+  // v4.1 Method 8 — Frame interpolation (sparse keyframes → interpolated video).
+  // RIFE: Replicate-hosted, optical-flow-based interpolation, up to 8 keyframes.
+  "rife": {
+    inputModes: ["frame_interpolation"],
+    maxInterpolationKeyframes: 8,
+    maxDurationSeconds: 60,
+    prompting_style: "compact",
+  },
+  // Topaz Apollo: cloud-hosted (Topaz.ai), higher keyframe budget.
+  // Provider routing currently stubs as `provider_not_available:topaz-apollo`
+  // pending KIE catalog check — entry kept so Shot List Critic surfaces it.
+  "topaz-apollo": {
+    inputModes: ["frame_interpolation"],
+    maxInterpolationKeyframes: 16,
+    maxDurationSeconds: 60,
+    prompting_style: "compact",
+  },
+  // v4.1 Method 10 — Parametric 3D camera path (Stability AI SV3D via Replicate).
+  // SV3D takes a single image + a camera path and renders a 3D-orbit video.
+  "stable-video-3d": {
+    inputModes: ["camera_path", "first_frame"],
+    supportsCameraPath: true,
+    maxDurationSeconds: 5,
+    prompting_style: "natural_language",
+    maxReferenceImages: 1,
+  },
+}
+
+/**
+ * modelsForInputMode — filter VIDEO_MODEL_CAPS to models that support the given mode.
+ * Used at three call sites: Scene Director prompt construction, route Zod validation,
+ * frontend config panel dropdown options.
+ */
+export const modelsForInputMode = (mode: SceneInputMode): string[] =>
+  Object.entries(VIDEO_MODEL_CAPS)
+    .filter(([, caps]) => caps.inputModes.includes(mode))
+    .map(([model]) => model)
+
+/**
+ * preferredInputModeForModel — pick the best `shot_input_mode` for a pinned
+ * video model so the pipeline adapts its input wiring to the chosen model:
+ *
+ *   - models that accept `ref_images` (Seedance 2, Kling Omni) → `"ref_images"`,
+ *     so the character/location reference portraits feed the video model
+ *     directly (strongest identity lock).
+ *   - otherwise models that accept a start frame → `"first_frame"`, so the
+ *     per-scene keyframe is connected as the opening frame.
+ *
+ * Returns `undefined` for unknown/unregistered models (not in VIDEO_MODEL_CAPS)
+ * or models that expose neither mode, so the caller keeps its own default.
+ *
+ * `first_last_frame` is deliberately NOT auto-selected — the animate stage
+ * does not yet implement paired start+end keyframes (Method 2), so a
+ * first_last_frame-capable model still resolves to `first_frame` here.
+ */
+export function preferredInputModeForModel(
+  model: string | undefined,
+): SceneInputMode | undefined {
+  if (!model) return undefined
+  const caps = VIDEO_MODEL_CAPS[model]
+  if (!caps) return undefined
+  if (caps.inputModes.includes("ref_images")) return "ref_images"
+  if (caps.inputModes.includes("first_frame")) return "first_frame"
+  return undefined
+}
+
+/* ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ * Platform default video model (single source of truth)
+ *
+ * Applied wherever a video request omits `provider`: the generate-video and
+ * text-to-video routes (credit resolution + dispatch), the DAG payload
+ * builder, and the KIE provider's last-resort fallback. Chosen from usage
+ * data (2026-07): most-selected video model with the highest completion rate.
+ * ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+
+export const DEFAULT_VIDEO_PROVIDER = "seedance-2-fast"
+
+/**
+ * Duration paired with the default provider when BOTH provider and duration
+ * are omitted. Pins the nothing-specified request to the default model's
+ * cheapest seeded tier (4s @ 480p — resolution omission already resolves to
+ * 480p in buildVideoCreditModelIdentifier), so first-touch cost stays at
+ * entry level and longer clips are an explicit choice.
+ */
+export const DEFAULT_VIDEO_DURATION_SEC = 4
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the effective (provider, duration) for a video request.
+ *
+ *  - provider omitted → DEFAULT_VIDEO_PROVIDER
+ *  - duration omitted AND provider was omitted → DEFAULT_VIDEO_DURATION_SEC
+ *  - an explicitly chosen provider keeps its own duration semantics (an
+ *    omitted duration falls through to that model's natural default)
+ *
+ * Used by both single-node routes AND the workflow payload builder so the
+ * two execution paths cannot drift (the route/DAG default previously
+ * disagreed: "minimax" vs "kling").
+ */
+export function applyDefaultVideoSelection<D>(input: {
+  provider?: string | null
+  duration?: D
+}): { provider: string; duration: D | number | undefined } {
+  const providerOmitted = input.provider == null || input.provider === ""
+  return {
+    provider: providerOmitted ? DEFAULT_VIDEO_PROVIDER : (input.provider as string),
+    duration: input.duration ?? (providerOmitted ? DEFAULT_VIDEO_DURATION_SEC : undefined),
+  }
+}