diff --git a/skills-manifest.json b/skills-manifest.json
index 39217fc336..c01aa914e5 100644
--- a/skills-manifest.json
+++ b/skills-manifest.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
       "files": 138
     },
     "faceless-explainer": {
-      "hash": "1eb3772e62dd71bb",
+      "hash": "881427da270043e3",
       "files": 24
     },
     "figma": {
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
       "files": 11
     },
     "hyperframes-core": {
-      "hash": "ec542db377d8b213",
+      "hash": "35eb12d7e0062a61",
       "files": 20
     },
     "hyperframes-creative": {
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@
       "files": 132
     },
     "pr-to-video": {
-      "hash": "01f46da1e17577ea",
+      "hash": "264e82ff07a16900",
       "files": 30
     },
     "product-launch-video": {
-      "hash": "d562efe00647c14b",
+      "hash": "b3c7ed11831f51d3",
       "files": 28
     },
     "remotion-to-hyperframes": {
diff --git a/skills/faceless-explainer/references/story-design.md b/skills/faceless-explainer/references/story-design.md
index 7e68428cd0..956d6b36af 100644
--- a/skills/faceless-explainer/references/story-design.md
+++ b/skills/faceless-explainer/references/story-design.md
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Use the exact fields required by the core storyboard format. This is the narrati
 - type: feature_showcase
 - persuasion: Progressive disclosure
 - beat: comprehension
-- blueprint: messaging-multi-phase — candidate shape from the role→blueprint menu; omit when none fits
+- blueprint: dataviz-countup — candidate shape from the role→blueprint menu; omit when none fits
 
 narrativeRole: What this frame does in the viewer's understanding.
 keyMessage: The one idea the viewer should remember.
diff --git a/skills/hyperframes-core/scripts/lib/frame-packets-core.mjs b/skills/hyperframes-core/scripts/lib/frame-packets-core.mjs
index 123b59c9fb..1a182f17ff 100644
--- a/skills/hyperframes-core/scripts/lib/frame-packets-core.mjs
+++ b/skills/hyperframes-core/scripts/lib/frame-packets-core.mjs
@@ -83,14 +83,38 @@ export function citedRules(block, ruleIds) {
   return [...new Set([...explicit, ...mentioned])].filter((id) => ruleIds.includes(id));
 }
 
-export function resourceSections(block, { animationDir, ruleIds }) {
+// visual-design.md tells the author to write the blueprint as `<id> (Reproduce)`
+// or `<id> (Adapt)` — the qualifier is direction for the frame worker, not part of
+// the filename. Parse the field into the id it names (or null for `compose`), so
+// no caller ever resolves a raw field value against the blueprints directory.
+export function blueprintId(block) {
+  const raw = field(block, "blueprint");
+  if (!raw) return null;
+  const id = raw.replace(/\s*\([^)]*\)\s*$/, "").trim();
+  return id && id.toLowerCase() !== "compose" ? id : null;
+}
+
+export function resourceSections(block, { animationDir, ruleIds, frameId }) {
   let sections = "";
-  const blueprint = field(block, "blueprint");
-  if (blueprint && blueprint.toLowerCase() !== "compose") {
-    sections += selectedFile(
-      join(animationDir, "blueprints", `${blueprint}.md`),
-      `Selected blueprint: ${blueprint}`,
-    );
+  const blueprint = blueprintId(block);
+  if (blueprint) {
+    const blueprintsDir = join(animationDir, "blueprints");
+    const path = join(blueprintsDir, `${blueprint}.md`);
+    // A blueprint that resolved to nothing used to inline an empty string, so the
+    // packet shipped without the one document the frame was designed against and
+    // the run still reported success. Name it instead — but only when the library
+    // is actually there to be named against. The animation skill installs on
+    // demand, so an absent blueprints/ is a missing install, not a bad id, and it
+    // degrades with a warning exactly like an absent rules/ (see knownRuleIds).
+    if (!existsSync(blueprintsDir)) {
+      console.warn(
+        `frame-packets: no blueprints dir at ${blueprintsDir} — packets will inline no blueprint`,
+      );
+    } else if (!existsSync(path)) {
+      throw new Error(`${frameId ?? "frame"}: blueprint "${blueprint}" has no file at ${path}`);
+    } else {
+      sections += selectedFile(path, `Selected blueprint: ${blueprint}`);
+    }
   }
   for (const rule of citedRules(block, ruleIds)) {
     sections += selectedFile(
@@ -135,7 +159,7 @@ export function buildFramePackets({
   const packets = frames.map((frame) => {
     const id = frameId(frame);
     if (validateFrame) validateFrame(frame, id);
-    const packet = `# Frame packet: ${id}\n\n## Project inputs\n\n- Project: ${resolve(projectDir)}\n${designTruthLine(projectDir)}\n- RULES_DIR: ${join(animationDir, "rules")}\n\n## Assigned storyboard block\n\n${frame.block}\n${resourceSections(frame.block, { animationDir, ruleIds })}${extraSections ? extraSections(frame.block) : ""}`;
+    const packet = `# Frame packet: ${id}\n\n## Project inputs\n\n- Project: ${resolve(projectDir)}\n${designTruthLine(projectDir)}\n- RULES_DIR: ${join(animationDir, "rules")}\n\n## Assigned storyboard block\n\n${frame.block}\n${resourceSections(frame.block, { animationDir, ruleIds, frameId: id })}${extraSections ? extraSections(frame.block) : ""}`;
     const bytes = Buffer.byteLength(packet);
     if (bytes > maxPacketBytes) {
       throw new Error(`${id}: frame packet is ${bytes} bytes (limit ${maxPacketBytes})`);
diff --git a/skills/pr-to-video/scripts/workflow-guardrails.test.mjs b/skills/pr-to-video/scripts/workflow-guardrails.test.mjs
index e73dc74f64..85f5be78c5 100644
--- a/skills/pr-to-video/scripts/workflow-guardrails.test.mjs
+++ b/skills/pr-to-video/scripts/workflow-guardrails.test.mjs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ test("#1092 packets contain selected excerpts but never the full diff", () => {
   write(join(project, "frame.md"), "# compact frame tokens\n");
   write(
     join(project, "STORYBOARD.md"),
-    `---\nformat: 1920x1080\n---\n\n## Frame 1 — Diff\n\n- duration: 4s\n- src: compositions/frames/01-diff.html\n- focal: code-diff\n- blueprint: compose\n- rules: text-reveal\n\n### Source excerpt\n\n\`\`\`diff\n-oldCall()\n+newCall({ attested: true })\n\`\`\`\n\n## Frame 2 — Impact\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/02-impact.html\n- blueprint: number-lockup\n- rules: counting-dynamic-scale\n`,
+    `---\nformat: 1920x1080\n---\n\n## Frame 1 — Diff\n\n- duration: 4s\n- src: compositions/frames/01-diff.html\n- focal: code-diff\n- blueprint: compose\n- rules: text-reveal\n\n### Source excerpt\n\n\`\`\`diff\n-oldCall()\n+newCall({ attested: true })\n\`\`\`\n\n## Frame 2 — Impact\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/02-impact.html\n- blueprint: dataviz-countup\n- rules: counting-dynamic-scale\n`,
   );
 
   const result = buildFramePackets({
diff --git a/skills/product-launch-video/scripts/frame-packets.test.mjs b/skills/product-launch-video/scripts/frame-packets.test.mjs
index 30c5a493c0..6f45ef85fb 100644
--- a/skills/product-launch-video/scripts/frame-packets.test.mjs
+++ b/skills/product-launch-video/scripts/frame-packets.test.mjs
@@ -64,3 +64,81 @@ test("packet validation is atomic and leaves no partial output on overflow", ()
   );
   assert.equal(existsSync(outDir), false);
 });
+
+// ── the blueprint qualifier ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Regression: visual-design.md documents `blueprint:` as the id plus a
+// `(Reproduce)` / `(Adapt)` qualifier, and prints `dataviz-countup (Adapt)` as
+// its worked example. The resolver used the raw field as the filename, so every
+// qualified blueprint looked for a file that cannot exist and inlined "" —
+// packets shipped without the document the frame was designed against, and the
+// run still reported success. The cases above only ever used bare ids.
+
+test("a qualified blueprint resolves to the same body as the bare id", () => {
+  const project = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "plv-blueprint-qualified-"));
+  write(join(project, "frame.md"), "# tokens\n");
+  write(
+    join(project, "STORYBOARD.md"),
+    `---\nformat: 1920x1080\n---\n\n## Frame 1 — Adapted\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/01-adapted.html\n- blueprint: device-surface-showcase (Adapt)\n\n## Frame 2 — Reproduced\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/02-reproduced.html\n- blueprint: device-surface-showcase (Reproduce)\n\n## Frame 3 — Bare\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/03-bare.html\n- blueprint: device-surface-showcase\n`,
+  );
+
+  const packets = buildFramePackets({ projectDir: project });
+  const blueprintSections = packets.map((packet) => {
+    const body = readFileSync(packet.path, "utf8");
+    const start = body.indexOf("## Selected blueprint:");
+    assert.notEqual(start, -1, `${packet.frameId} inlined no blueprint`);
+    return body.slice(start);
+  });
+
+  assert.match(blueprintSections[0], /## Selected blueprint: device-surface-showcase\n/);
+  // The qualifier is direction for the worker, not a different document: all
+  // three frames must inline byte-identical blueprint bodies.
+  assert.equal(new Set(blueprintSections).size, 1);
+});
+
+test("a qualified `compose` still selects no blueprint", () => {
+  const project = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "plv-blueprint-compose-"));
+  write(join(project, "frame.md"), "# tokens\n");
+  write(
+    join(project, "STORYBOARD.md"),
+    `---\nformat: 1920x1080\n---\n\n## Frame 1 — Freeform\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/01-freeform.html\n- blueprint: compose (Adapt)\n`,
+  );
+
+  const [packet] = buildFramePackets({ projectDir: project });
+
+  assert.doesNotMatch(readFileSync(packet.path, "utf8"), /## Selected blueprint/);
+});
+
+test("a blueprint with no file fails the run instead of shipping an empty section", () => {
+  const project = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "plv-blueprint-missing-"));
+  const outDir = join(project, ".hyperframes", "frame-packets");
+  write(join(project, "frame.md"), "# tokens\n");
+  write(
+    join(project, "STORYBOARD.md"),
+    `---\nformat: 1920x1080\n---\n\n## Frame 1 — Typo\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/01-typo.html\n- blueprint: device-surface-showcses\n`,
+  );
+
+  assert.throws(
+    () => buildFramePackets({ projectDir: project, outDir }),
+    /01-typo: blueprint "device-surface-showcses" has no file/,
+  );
+  assert.equal(existsSync(outDir), false);
+});
+
+test("an uninstalled animation skill degrades with a warning, it does not fail the run", () => {
+  // hyperframes-animation installs on demand, so an absent blueprints/ means the
+  // library isn't there yet — not that the frame named a bad id. Matches how an
+  // absent rules/ already behaves.
+  const project = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "plv-blueprint-uninstalled-"));
+  write(join(project, "frame.md"), "# tokens\n");
+  write(
+    join(project, "STORYBOARD.md"),
+    `---\nformat: 1920x1080\n---\n\n## Frame 1 — Hook\n\n- duration: 3s\n- src: compositions/frames/01-hook.html\n- blueprint: dataviz-countup (Adapt)\n`,
+  );
+
+  const [packet] = buildFramePackets({
+    projectDir: project,
+    animationDir: join(project, "absent-animation-skill"),
+  });
+
+  assert.doesNotMatch(readFileSync(packet.path, "utf8"), /## Selected blueprint/);
+});