diff --git a/skill/reference/new-work.md b/skill/reference/new-work.md index 2e0c5b978..87398c9ae 100644 --- a/skill/reference/new-work.md +++ b/skill/reference/new-work.md @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Choose faces like objects from the subject's world, in the mode's register. Oper Calibration: AI-generated interfaces cluster around a few looks regardless of subject: warm cream ground, high-contrast serif display, and a terracotta or signal-red accent; near-black with one neon accent and glowing edges; broadsheet-editorial hairlines, italic display serif, and small tracked mono labels. All are legitimate when the brief calls for them; the brief always wins. Where the brief leaves the aesthetic free, landing in one of them means the self-check failed: if someone could guess your aesthetic from the category alone, or from category-plus-avoidance, rework until neither answer is obvious. Energy is not the enemy of trust: a brief's negative constraints (no gamification, no hype) rule out those devices, not exuberance, and adjectives describing the product's behavior (quiet support, calm coaching) do not dictate the surface's energy. A bookish, warm, or child-facing subject does not soften the calibration: book cloth, thread, jackets, endpapers, and shelf ephemera span the whole saturated spectrum, and cream paper is the smallest corner of that world; landing on cream plus serif for a book subject is the default wearing the subject's clothes. A brief-pinned world pins the world, not its softest rendition: the pinned world's full material range stays in play, and a rendition that matches what any model ships for that world failed the self-check at execution rather than selection. + +Your measured rendition prior: warm, bookish, family, and child-facing subjects come out as cream grounds, serif display with italic accents, and lamplight, even when the assigned direction never asked for them. Treat that first palette as already spent. Before writing code, reread your OWN-WORLD block: when it says cream, paper, parchment, ivory, or lamplight for a Persuade surface the brief did not pin, the rendition failed and you rework it from the world's saturated materials first. The same subject renders as bookcloth, thread, jacket, and endpaper color on other models; nothing about the subject requires your default. + + ## 5. Record the decision Before code, state the chosen direction as a contract in the artifact's opening comment, five short blocks, 150 words at most. THESIS: the one idea this surface owns and the category-default arrangement it refuses. OWN-WORLD: the palette and component language, specific enough to be recognizable with all content removed. STORY: what the visitor understands, believes, and does. FIRST VIEWPORT: the exact composition, what is where and at what scale, and where the primary action sits. FORM: the chosen form, its position on your ordered list, and the seed key the script printed. If a block reads like a mood, the direction is not decided yet; the finishing review audits the render against this contract.