Fingerprint: teach raea your eye

A fingerprint is your sense of good work, as raea has learned it on your Mac. It's a list of axes, the things you notice: blur, a black frame, hiss, clipping, a glow over everything, a frozen picture, and taste axes such as fake, barren or unreadable text. Each axis has a small model trained over the Edit Embedding Zoo: the encoders that run on your Mac (SigLIP 2 for pictures, CLAP for sound, YAMNet for sound events, EmbeddingGemma 2 for scripts and other text, Depth Anything 3 for depth), so nothing leaves the machine unless you share it. The zoo is the same for everyone and never changes; what you train over it is yours.

Your agents use it before they post a cut: raea fingerprint score lists the moments your fingerprint expects a note on, each named in your words, and the agent fixes them or tells you why it didn't. It tells you the axis and the moment, never a number.

#In this section

• Train your fingerprint: learning from your own renders, your notes and marks, a box on the part of a sound you mean, and a post-mortem when a project is done.
• Check a cut with it: scoring a cut, checking a fix, scripts and stills, things in a shot, and profiles of work you admire.
• Projects and teams: one fingerprint for each kind of work, which one judges a project, keeping one with a project or workspace, and sharing with a team.

#The Fingerprint page

Open Fingerprint in the sidebar. The card at the top is your mark, one column of bits for each axis, grouped by sense: pictures, sound and motion. Point at a sense to see its axes and how well each one judges. Below it, every axis says whether it knows (it's trusted, and can hold a post back until you've looked), is learning (it gives advice), or is still to learn (it only has its words). Can't judge yet lists what no axis can see, such as whether a piece works as a whole.

The name in the page's title is a menu of your fingerprints. Settings holds what one is for, what it builds on, whether it's your default, and Learn from renders.

A fingerprint's axes are a file you can read and edit, ~/.raea/fingerprints/NAME/fingerprint.ts, typed by raea/fingerprint (the SDK page). Add, remove or reword an axis there; its evidence is raea's to keep. Every command is on the CLI page.

#What it can't do yet

Axes judge two-second moments, so a fingerprint can't say whether a piece works as a whole, or judge story and pace across shots. It can say where in the frame only for blur, glitches and flat, barren surfaces; glow it can only flag. Sound axes judge the whole sound in each moment, so a box's pitch band is kept but not yet learned from. A stylised look or a held shot can read as a defect. And taste axes with only words never hold a post back.