GUIDE.md

Guide

What To Try First

• Town: Little Static
• Parade weather: paper rain that apologizes
• Grand marshal: a nervous umbrella
• Street trouble: the parade route forgot its own corners
• Cabinet color: mint night
• Parade energy: 4

Then press Open cabinet.

What Makes A Good Run

• The three float cards should be visibly different from each other.
• The crowd chant should be short enough to say out loud.
• The finale should change the route, not only summarize the parade.
• The parade sound should feel like a tiny march, not a generic alert.
• The caption should be good enough to paste into a social post with the demo clip.

Cloud API Behavior

The Let the cabinet write live checkbox uses the selected Parade voice:

• Hugging Face and OpenBMB routes use HF_API_KEY or HF_TOKEN.
• NVIDIA route uses NVIDIA_API_KEY.
• Practice writer uses deterministic local generation.

If a key is missing, the provider is unavailable, or the response is empty, the app falls back to a deterministic local parade. The hidden trace records whether the run used cloud or fallback.