3 added, 7 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: "color-material-lighting-direction"
- description: "Design website color, material, surface, and lighting direction. Use for premium visual systems, avoiding one-note palettes, defining luxury or cinematic color without cliches, setting contrast, backgrounds, gradients, surfaces, shadows, glass, and material accents."
+ description: "Define palette, material and lighting roles."
---
# Color Material Lighting Direction
## Purpose
Make palette, surface, and lighting choices support the site concept and readability.
## Required Use
Use this skill when the trigger description applies. Keep the `SKILL.md` lean, then read `references/color-material-lighting-direction-guide.md` for concrete rules before planning or editing a meaningful website change.
- ## Operating Contract
+ ## Scoped execution
- 1. Inspect before coding when code exists.
- 2. Convert vague taste into concrete rules.
- 3. Explain planned files before major changes unless the user clearly said to proceed.
- 4. Build, inspect, polish, and verify.
- 5. Report commands run, files changed, and anything not tested.
+ Apply the [shared web contract](../website-operating-rules/references/scoped-web-contract.md) once when execution crosses phases; reuse it if already read. Load only the specialist guidance relevant to the requested surface and deliverable.
## Detailed Guide
Read `references/color-material-lighting-direction-guide.md` when this skill is active for a build, redesign, review, or implementation plan.