fix: require causal layer maps for cyberpunk image briefs

fix: require causal layer maps for cyberpunk image briefs
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Magnus Hedemark
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## Image-direction default
Build an image brief in this order:
Before drafting prose, make a **layer map**. Do not send a prompt that merely lists cyberpunk ingredients.
1. **Focal human action:** one person or small group doing something concrete.
2. **Spatial layer:** street, concourse, service deck, mall, tower threshold, transit connection, clinic, market, or orbital work zone.
3. **Material history:** two or three signs of use, repair, adaptation, or neglect.
4. **System pressure:** surveillance, a queue, a delivery deadline, access control, a vendor economy, scarcity, or a corporate perimeter.
5. **Light and weather:** choose only what supports the action. Night, rain, haze, and advertising are options, not requirements.
6. **Exclusions:** no borrowed named characters, no readable fake-brand overload, no default sexualization, and no frictionless luxury unless the contrast is the point.
1. **Foreground action:** name the person or small group, the concrete action, and the object or constraint in their hands.
2. **Middle-ground transaction:** name the witnesses, queue, desk, hatch, stall, or checkpoint where the action changes another person's options.
3. **Background system and connection:** name the distant system, then specify one visible vertical or causal connection to the foreground: a freight lift, stair, service catwalk, rail line, cable run, pneumatic tube, or access flow.
4. **Anchored material history:** place two or three repair, reuse, or neglect traces at the layers where they matter; do not leave them as a background noun list.
5. **Readable pressure:** state the access failure, queue, deadline, scarcity, or surveillance condition that viewers can see shaping the transaction.
6. **Legibility:** require foreground, middle ground, background, and their connection to remain readable in-frame. Do not use shallow depth of field, smoke, rain, signage, or lighting to hide the causal chain.
7. **Light, weather, and exclusions:** choose light/weather only to support the action. Exclude borrowed named characters, readable fake-brand overload, default sexualization, and frictionless luxury unless contrast is the point.
Use the template in [visual direction](references/visual-direction.md). For an exact canon request, offer an analytical breakdown or an original adjacent composition instead of a scene recreation.
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## Prompt template
```text
[Medium and framing] of [person or small group] [performing a concrete action]
in [specific spatial layer]. The setting shows [two material traces of accretion]
and [one operating pressure]. [Light/weather] supports [the action or mood],
while [background system] remains legible but secondary. Lived-in, maintained
and imperfect, culturally specific through [practice or relationship], not
through generic signage. Original setting and characters; no copyrighted
characters, logos, or recreated scenes; no readable gibberish text.
[Medium and framing; keep foreground, middle ground, background, and their connection legible in-frame] of [foreground person or small group] [concrete action] with [object, access point, or failure constraint] in hand. Middle ground: [named transaction, witnesses, queue, desk, hatch, stall, or checkpoint] where that action changes another person's options. Background: [system] connected visibly through [freight lift, stairs, service catwalk, rail line, cable run, pneumatic tube, or access flow]. Place [two material traces of accretion] at [their relevant layers]. The readable pressure is [deadline, queue, access failure, scarcity, or surveillance condition]. [Light/weather] reveals rather than obscures the action and connection; no shallow depth of field that turns systems into atmosphere. Culturally specific through [practice or relationship], not generic signage. Original setting and characters; no copyrighted characters, logos, recreated scenes, or readable gibberish text.
```
### Example: original adjacent image direction
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Exclude: recognizable protected characters or locations; direct cover-art composition; model-typical illegible text; default femme-fatale sexualization; unexplained weapon posing; a homogeneous crowd; pristine “future showroom” surfaces; and a generic East Asian visual shorthand for futurity.
Before delivery, inspect whether the image has one readable human action, a clear spatial hierarchy, visible material history, and an operational pressure. If it only says “cyberpunk” through purple-blue light and rain, revise the brief.
Before generation, reject and rewrite any brief that merely lists people, infrastructure, and neon atmosphere. Require a layer map with a foreground action, named middle-ground transaction, background system, visible connection, anchored material history, and readable pressure. Before delivery, inspect whether every mapped layer and connection remains legible in-frame; if the causal chain is buried by shallow depth of field, smoke, rain, signage, or spectacle, revise the brief.