Credit Clinic explores the consequences of one film credit
This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange . What I Built Credit Clinic is a reference-impact lab for people learning how connected content behaves. Choose a film, follow a cast or crew credit to its person document, and rehearse a change in a browser-local copy. The result shows which films depend on that person and how different changes produce…
Credit Clinic, a reference-impact lab, allows users to explore how changes to film credits affect connected content. Select a film, trace a credit, and test its impact on other films. In this experiment, removing a single credit from Ridley Scott's role in "Alien" leads to five affected films and five new unresolved references, while renaming the person preserves all linked films without altering the original source.
The tool maintains reference structure, enabling users to understand both shared dependencies and individual credit provenance. Each experiment starts from a fresh copy of the original snapshot, ensuring isolated results. The application uses Astro, browser JavaScript, and a deterministic graph module, with no write credentials or database-edit paths.
The source dataset comes from Sanity's public movie demonstration dataset, and the interface retains reference IDs while allowing name changes for clarity. The implementation and tests pass various checks, ensuring specific behaviors are evident.
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