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:20261025.1fd730e

Pins git:20261025.1fd730e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
summerengine/summer
Path
plugins/claude/skills/art-direction/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261025.1fd730e, committed Oct 25, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 19, 2026
Size
11,736 bytes
Repository stars
90
License
MIT

Define the game's visual style (palette, mood, lighting, post) as an art bible in .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@sha256:45384454dc6d5237

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.1fd730e, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every day.

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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 (11736 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 · 90 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xsdqz25shtlppjin
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=summerengine/summer/art-direction
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/45384454dc6d52376c35bcfbb81ee8104886f3722bb8a007c05103ed79fb1f8f

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