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In Kitsu's Zou server, how are shots, tasks, task statuses, review previews and review comments modelled?

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Zou v1.0.97 stores shots, assets, sequences, episodes and similar as rows of one polymorphic Entity table (entity_type_id, parent_id); a Task joins an entity, a task type and a status (unique per name, project, type and entity); statuses carry flags such as is_retake and is_feedback_request; comments attach to any object and can change a task's status; a PreviewFile (revision, validation status, JSONB annotations; unique per name, task and revision) is the reviewable artefact, not a publication. Curator qualifications: Code and docs read 2026-10-22; no server run (code reading). Limitations: Code and docs read 2026-10-22; no server run (code reading). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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      "url": "https://github.com/cgwire/zou/blob/629c4316661ede66ea6b65f166a0d7d852fd4b68/zou/app/models/entity.py",
      "note": "zou/app/models/entity.py at 629c4316 (raw), L2-11; models/task.py (raw), L40-74; models/task_status.py (raw); models/comment.py (raw), L78-115; models/preview_file.py (raw), L23-66"
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      "url": "https://github.com/cgwire/zou/blob/629c4316661ede66ea6b65f166a0d7d852fd4b68/zou/app/models/task.py",
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      "url": "https://github.com/cgwire/zou/blob/629c4316661ede66ea6b65f166a0d7d852fd4b68/zou/app/models/comment.py",
      "note": "zou/app/models/entity.py at 629c4316 (raw), L2-11; models/task.py (raw), L40-74; models/task_status.py (raw); models/comment.py (raw), L78-115; models/preview_file.py (raw), L23-66"
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      "url": "https://github.com/cgwire/zou/blob/629c4316661ede66ea6b65f166a0d7d852fd4b68/zou/app/models/preview_file.py",
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Zou v1.0.97 stores shots, assets, sequences, episodes and similar as rows of one polymorphic Entity table (entity_type_id, parent_id); a Task joins an entity, a task type and a status (unique per name, project, type and entity); statuses carry flags such as is_retake and is_feedback_request; comments attach to any object and can change a task's status; a PreviewFile (revision, validation status, JSONB annotations; unique per name, task and revision) is the reviewable artefact, not a publication. · locator: zou/app/models/entity.py at 629c4316 (raw), L2-11; models/task.py (raw), L40-74; models/task_status.py (raw); models/comment.py (raw), L78-115; models/preview_file.py (raw), L23-66 source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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