[jeremieLouvaert]

Summary

A few tools still resolved paths against the current working directory instead of the repo root, so running them from outside the repo (e.g. a Claude Code session started in another project with OpenMontage invoked by absolute path) wrote projects/ into the caller's folder or failed to find remotion-composer. This routes them through the existing lib/paths.py, which is already the single source of truth for REPO_ROOT / PROJECTS_DIR.

Related issue

None filed; found while running OpenMontage alongside another project.

Changes

• tools/analysis/video_analyzer.py: default output_dir is PROJECTS_DIR / "_analysis" / ... (also honours OPENMONTAGE_PROJECTS_DIR now)
• tools/character/character_animation.py: default output_path is under PROJECTS_DIR
• tools/video/remotion_caption_burn.py: look up remotion-composer at REPO_ROOT only, so a stray remotion-composer/ in the cwd can't shadow the repo's
• scripts/scaffold_atelier_project.py: --root defaults to the repo instead of ., and the progress printing no longer raises ValueError when cwd is outside the repo

Explicit inputs (output_dir, output_path, --root) behave exactly as before.

Testing

• pytest tests on this branch: 1828 passed, 12 skipped, 3 xfailed (Windows 11, Python 3.12)
• From a different working directory: python <repo>/scripts/scaffold_atelier_project.py some-slug now creates <repo>/projects/some-slug; on main the same command creates ./projects/some-slug in the caller's folder
• From a different working directory, RemotionCaptionBurn()._find_remotion_root() returns <repo>/remotion-composer

Checklist

• The change is focused on a single logical concern.
• I ran the relevant tests locally (make test-contracts / make test) where applicable.
• I updated docs/README if behavior or usage changed. (No usage change; only defaults now anchor to the repo.)
• No unrelated files (build artifacts, local config) are included in the diff.

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[calesthio]

Thank you for making default paths independent of the caller's working directory. Reviewed all four changed files against main 63d1087a; defaults now use the canonical repository/projects roots and explicit caller paths remain usable. Validation: 10 character/caption contract and workspace tests passed. An additional actual scaffold run from a different working directory succeeded and exercised the safe path reporting. Composer dependencies are absent, so no full Remotion render was run.