{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://neon-sprawl.local/schemas/contract-template.json",
  "title": "ContractTemplate",
  "description": "Single contract template row for catalogs (e.g. content/contracts/*_contract_templates.json). Repeatable mission skeleton keyed by zone difficulty band. See docs/decomposition/modules/E7_M4_ContractMissionGenerator.md.",
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "required": [
    "id",
    "displayName",
    "zoneDifficultyBand",
    "objectiveKind",
    "encounterTemplateId",
    "minFactionStanding",
    "completionRewardBundle"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*$",
      "description": "Immutable template key for issuance APIs and telemetry."
    },
    "displayName": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Player-facing label; safe to change without migrating instance data."
    },
    "zoneDifficultyBand": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Difficulty band used to filter eligible templates at issue time (E4.M1 live zone deferred in Slice 4 v1)."
    },
    "objectiveKind": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["encounter_clear"],
      "description": "Objective discriminator; Slice 4 v1 binds encounterTemplateId only."
    },
    "encounterTemplateId": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*$",
      "description": "Encounter template id from content/encounters (E5.M3)."
    },
    "minFactionStanding": {
      "$ref": "https://neon-sprawl.local/schemas/faction-gate-rule.json",
      "description": "Minimum faction standing required to issue this template."
    },
    "completionRewardBundle": {
      "$ref": "https://neon-sprawl.local/schemas/quest-reward-bundle.json",
      "description": "Repeat completion payout delivered via RewardRouterOperations (E7.M2); separate idempotency from quest and first-time encounter loot."
    }
  }
}