diff --git a/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/__init__.py b/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/__init__.py
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+++ b/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/__init__.py
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+from .schema.character import Character, Appearance, Outfit, Gender
+from .generation.prompt_builder import PromptBuilder, PromptConfig
+
+__all__ = [
+    "Character",
+    "Appearance",
+    "Outfit",
+    "Gender",
+    "PromptBuilder",
+    "PromptConfig",
+]
diff --git a/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/config.yaml b/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/config.yaml
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+++ b/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/config.yaml
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+engine:
+  default_model: ""
+  default_lora: ""
+  output_dir: "outputs"
+
+generation:
+  width: 512
+  height: 768
+  steps: 30
+  cfg_scale: 7.5
+  seed: -1
+
+prompt:
+  quality_prefix: "masterpiece, best quality, highly detailed"
+  negative: "lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, text, error, missing fingers, cropped, worst quality, low quality, blurry, deformed"
diff --git a/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/outputs/.gitkeep b/media-pipeline/core/character_engine/outputs/.gitkeep
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