# 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`.