# Task assets

Task payloads are grouped by data-driven manifests in `../modules/tasks/`.
Each module declares one task family, its station dependency, checkpoint-bound
scene JSON, optional initial state, thin USDA layout layer, and task-owned
metric protocol.

Scene paths are portable:

- `asset://...` resolves from the downloaded TOWER-Assets root.
- `generator://...` resolves from the separately installed generator root.
- `dataset://...` is provenance only and is never opened by the evaluator.

The Task 2/4/5/6 USDA files added in release `0.0.3` are additive
compositions over a shared station. They contain task layout prims and
overrides, not duplicated station geometry or textures. The original Task
1/2/3 staging USDA files remain descriptors until replaced by a qualified
module release.

To add a task family, create its payloads and one
`tower-asset-module-v1` document, then include that module in the next release
descriptor. No publisher registry change is required.