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name: paprika-make
description: Builds what the person asks for in three.js, React Three Fiber or WebGL with the paprika3d tools - a game, a 3D scene or a picture rebuilt in 3D, an interactive or educational piece, a product viewer or configurator, a portfolio or scroll site, a simulation, a shader demo. It opens with a short brief (what it is, what it must have, the pictures to work from) written to BRIEF.md, then builds start to finish. Use on /paprika-make <request>, "make me a 3D ...", "build a three.js ...", or any request for a new 3D page.
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# Make a three.js page

## The brief

The work goes in this order, and no page or script file is written before the brief file exists:

1. **The questions**, one at a time (below).
2. **The references**: the person's own pictures, or, when the request names none, the picks of a reference subagent started before the first question ("Finding pictures", below), which the person confirms.
3. **The brief file**, `BRIEF.md` (`paprika-loop/PROMPT.md` in a loop), written from the answers and the kept pictures with no more questions.
4. **The build.**

A few questions turn the request into `BRIEF.md`, the file the build is checked against. They go one at a time through the AskUserQuestion tool, each after the last answer so it can build on it, as multiple choice with choices drawn from the request (the tool also takes a typed answer). About four are enough, and one the request already answers is skipped. A request that decides everything (what it is, what it must have, its controls or what the visitor does, and its pictures), or a person who says to just build it, gets no questions; a request that leaves any of these open gets a question on each, so a detailed request still gets one or two. A session with no person in it, one whose tools do not include AskUserQuestion (a loop's builder or judge session, a plain `claude -p`), writes the brief from the words it has and asks nothing. When AskUserQuestion is there, a person is there to answer it, also in the session that starts a `paprika-loop`.

1. **What it is**, since the kind decides what a viewer judges the page by and what the next question asks: a game; a 3D scene (a place, or a picture rebuilt in 3D); a site, product viewer or configurator; an interactive piece (educational, a simulation, a shader demo).
2. **What that kind needs:**

   | Kind | Asked |
   |---|---|
   | Game | the mechanics, the controls, how it is won and lost, the games or things that inspire it |
   | 3D scene | which pictures, a 1:1 match or inspiration, one view or a space to move around in |
   | Site, viewer or configurator | the product or content, and what the visitor does |
   | Interactive piece | the concept or what is simulated, who it is for, and what the person controls |

3. **References**: pictures, links or things they like, each with its role (layout, style, mechanics, mood) and whether to match it or take it as inspiration. A reference is inspiration unless the person says match: people who meant a picture as inspiration pushed back hardest when the page was held to it as a target. A person with none picks from pictures a subagent finds (below).
4. **The rest**: what it must have, what to avoid, and anything the person already knows they want. The questions name no device the request does not.

**Finding pictures.** When the request and the first answer name no pictures (the request alone in a session with no person), a reference subagent starts right then: the Agent tool, `model: "sonnet"`, `run_in_background: true`, with the prompt `Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/paprika-make/refs.md and do what it says. The thing: <what it is, in the person's words>. Folder: <project folder>`. It searches while the other questions are asked, and replies with one line per pick: path, what it shows, licence, source URL. Then one AskUserQuestion call asks which to keep, multiSelect, one option per pick (its path, with what it shows and its licence as the description; four options to a question, so six picks are two questions in the one call). The kept ones become `refs/01.<ext>`, `refs/02.<ext>`, ... and the rest are deleted. A session with no person in it keeps every pick unasked.

**`BRIEF.md`** is short, sits at the project root, and its path is shown to the person:

```markdown
# <title>
## What it is
## Must have
1. <each thing the page must have: what the build is checked against, and what a paprika-loop judge scores>
## References
refs/01.jpg · <layout | style | mechanics | mood> · <inspiration | match> · <source URL>
## Inspirations and notes
## Left to the builder
<the choices the brief leaves open: yours to make, and named in the reply>
```

**Write the page whole and make this first version as impressive as you can: interesting, detailed, creative.** Take risks in the code. The paprika3d tools are good at finding and fixing what breaks, so a bold first build that needs polishing beats a safe one that needs growing. Run and polish it once it exists.

## What helps

- **The kind of page** (a game, a product viewer or configurator, a site such as a portfolio, landing or scroll story, a simulation or shader demo) decides what a viewer judges it by.
- **Shapes that work with the tools**: a plain page (one file, an import map, no build), React Three Fiber under vite when React is asked for, Rapier when the page needs physics. `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/threejs-game/templates/` (`plain.html`, `r3f.tsx`, `rapier.ts`) shows each working with the `window.__game` convention. A site is a plain page with the camera driven by the window's scroll (`references/configurator.md` covers viewers and configurators; the `scroll` step of `interact` and the `scroll` look drive a scroll page).
- **A scene from pictures**: `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/paprika-loop/builder-scene.md` holds the method (`reference` crops and samples, `refs/cameras.json`, `picture()` from `fx.js`).
- **`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/threejs-game/SKILL.md`** says what each tool shows and holds the rules the tools rely on (the `window.__game` convention, time, randomness, names).
- **What a finished page has usually been through**: for a game, each control the brief names played with `interact` and the `opening` look, and each button or menu the page shows clicked once with `interact` (a mouse step at its box from the look's `HTML over the canvas:` line); for a site or configurator, the `scroll` look when it scrolls, `perf` with `budget: "site"`, `model_audit` on each model file, and the `viewports` look when the brief names phones or tablets; for a simulation or demo, a `sheet` look over time and `perf`. For every page, the last look's picture against the brief's Must have list; a `Lighting:` or `Surfaces:` line names something a viewer sees.
- **A model the brief names**: `model_audit` reports its size and triangles, the `open` reply says whether it loaded, and a model at the wrong scale shows in `look`'s "Never visible" line.
- **Ready-made assets**: `asset_search` finds models (57,732, CC BY or CC0), PBR textures and HDRIs (CC0) in a hosted library, and puts the one picked into the project with its loading code and its credit line; `geo.js` and `fx.js` are the options with nothing to download.

## The critic

Once the page runs and has a look, start a critic: the Agent tool, `model: "opus"`, in the foreground, with the prompt `Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/paprika-make/critic.md and do what it says. The request: <BRIEF.md's What it is and Must have list>. The pictures: <paths>`. The paths are the newest look pictures, `ls -t paprika3d/runs/*/look-*.png | grep -v -e -ids -e -diff | head -6` (the `-opening` and `-sheet` ones among them when taken); the `-ids` files are colour maps, not what a viewer sees. The glitches and gaps the critic lists are closed one at a time, the way `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/threejs-game/references/lighting.md` closes a fault line (zoom, one change, look again); what to improve beyond that list comes from the brief and your own picture of the page (the scene, the HUD, menus and text a viewer reads, and each feature the brief names), worked out in your head before you look, not read off the pictures.

## The watermark

Every script and page this skill writes carries `// Made with paprika3d · https://paprika3d.com` as its first line (a `.js`, `.ts`, `.tsx`, `.jsx` or `.mjs` file; the second, under a `#!` line), or `<!-- Made with paprika3d · https://paprika3d.com -->` right after `<!doctype html>` (an HTML page). The files the plugin copies in (`geo.js`, `fx.js`, `three-runtime.js`, `game-state.js`, `physics-worker.js`) and everything in `node_modules` are left as they are.

## The reply

Four short lines: how to run the page, what it does, what to try next, and that the brief is `BRIEF.md`, so a change to it and a new ask changes course. No summary of the work.

Once per session, and not in a session with no person in it, one short last line: "Want a public paprika3d.app link? Say publish." Publish only on a yes, through the paprika-publish skill.