art-direction SKILL.md skillA

art-direction from summerengine/summer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add summerengine/summer/art-direction@git:20261010.4ade947

Pins git:20261010.4ade947 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: summerengine/summer
Path: library/skills/art-direction/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261010.4ade947, committed Oct 10, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 1, 2026
Size: 10,917 bytes
Repository stars: 86
License: MIT

Define the game's visual style — references, palette, mood, lighting plan, post-processing, do/don't list — output as an art bible at .summer/art-bible.md.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# /art-direction — Define the Visual Style

## Overview

A consistent art direction makes a low-budget game look finished. Solo developers most often lose it by mixing styles — a toon-shaded character on a photoreal terrain, a pixel UI over a smooth 3D world. This skill builds an art bible the rest of the project obeys: references, palette, mood, lighting plan, post-processing, and a do/don't list. It writes to `.summer/art-bible.md` — the file every rendering / shader / lighting / VFX skill reads later.

**Core principle:** Constraint produces style. A game with **15 colors total** looks more intentional than a game with infinite-color textures. Pick the constraint, then defend it.

## Steps

### 1. Open with references

Ask exactly this:

> Two or three references — games, films, art books, anything visual. What's the vibe?

Don't suggest. Listen. References are the single most reliable signal of what they actually want. If they say one game, ask for one more — single-reference art bibles converge into a clone of that game.

If they freeze, offer 4 axes (not games):
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add summerengine/summer/art-direction@sha256:67225159239021f5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.4ade947, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_og63fshxdezidelg.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_og63fshxdezidelg)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every 10 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261010.4ade947 latest	2026-10-10	4ade947	10,917 B	A	view · diff
git:20260911.b4df358	2026-09-11	b4df358	11,143 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.52b3365	2026-09-02	52b3365	11,268 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.548800b	2026-09-02	548800b	11,271 B	A	view · diff
git:20260901.0837e7a	2026-09-01	0837e7a	11,279 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10917 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

summerengine/summer · 86 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_og63fshxdezidelg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=summerengine/summer/art-direction
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/67225159239021f5abc100da65d7f35bf87b3bf2ec41d729b8e9a487d22156b4

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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