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name: "visual-assets-direction"
description: "Direct website imagery, video, generative visuals, product renders, screenshots, gallery crops, hero media, thumbnails, and visual assets. Use when a site needs real or generated media rather than generic gradients, stock-like backgrounds, placeholder images, or uninspected crops."
---

# Visual Assets Direction

## Purpose

Ensure the site has credible visual material and that assets are framed, optimized, and purposeful.

## Required Use

Use this skill when the trigger description applies. Keep the `SKILL.md` lean, then read `references/visual-assets-direction-guide.md` for concrete rules before planning or editing a meaningful website change.

## Operating Contract

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.

## Detailed Guide

Read `references/visual-assets-direction-guide.md` when this skill is active for a build, redesign, review, or implementation plan.