Improve visual cue heroes for color real estate and Gemini safety.

Ban hex codes from image prompts to stop Nano Banana swatch strips, require crisp deep focus and set-dressed surfaces inside close product-world scenes, and add wordless and real-estate inspection retries. The Gemini wrapper now converts JPEG bytes to PNG and infers AQ.-prefixed keys.

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Abdul Wahab
2026-09-01 10:00:42 +05:00
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Loaded when a pipeline needs image generation and the harness has **no usable na
## The setup, already answered
- **Key**: `IMAGE_GEN_API_KEY` in `.impeccable/.env` at the project root. The wrapper reads that file itself; never `source` it, never export the key by hand, never rename the variable. Never delete or truncate that file either, cleanup included: it is the user's stored credential, not run output, and a wiped key turns the next run's silent keyless path into a stalled question.
- **Provider**: `IMAGE_GEN_PROVIDER` in the same file: `bfl` (FLUX / Black Forest Labs) or `gemini` (Google Nano Banana), both built into the wrapper; any other value routes to a custom wrapper (below). Loose spellings from earlier runs (`flux`, `google`, `nano-banana`) normalize to the built-ins, and a missing provider line is inferred from the key's shape (Google keys start with `AIza`; anything else runs as `bfl`), so a misworded or absent line is never a reason to stop and ask.
- **Provider**: `IMAGE_GEN_PROVIDER` in the same file: `bfl` (FLUX / Black Forest Labs) or `gemini` (Google Nano Banana), both built into the wrapper; any other value routes to a custom wrapper (below). Loose spellings from earlier runs (`flux`, `google`, `nano-banana`) normalize to the built-ins, and a missing provider line is inferred from the key's shape (Google keys start with `AIza` or `AQ.`; anything else runs as `bfl`), so a misworded or absent line is never a reason to stop and ask.
- **Wrapper**: `{{scripts_path}}/image-gen.mjs`, shipped with the skill. Do **not** write a new wrapper for a built-in provider, edit this one, or fall back to raw `curl`/`fetch` calls; every known failure mode below is already handled inside it. Wrappers left by earlier runs under other names (`flux-gen.mjs`, project-local copies) are superseded by the shipped one.
- **No smoke test.** A funded key plus the shipped wrapper is a working path; the first real generation is the test, and the wrapper turns transient failures into internal retries rather than failed calls.
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ Run it from the project root (that is where it finds `.impeccable/.env`). It pri
- **Model**: `gemini-3.1-flash-image` by default; a `IMAGE_GEN_MODEL` line in `.impeccable/.env` overrides it, and the wrapper retries the `-preview` sibling once when Google's model naming drifts.
- **Size**: the wrapper pins aspect ratio 1:1, so output is always square; Gemini picks the pixel size for its tier (1024 by default) and ignores `--width`/`--height`. A 1024 square passes the pipelines' square gate as a "nearest supported square"; do not upscale it.
- **Format**: Gemini frequently returns JPEG bytes regardless of the `--out` filename; the wrapper converts them, so the written file is always a real PNG. Do not re-check or re-convert it.
- **Protocol**: synchronous; one call returns the image inline, no polling. Moderation arrives as an imageless response, which the wrapper turns into a clear error, not as an HTTP failure.
- **Text rendering**: Gemini paints text well and eagerly, so a prompt that mentions codes, numbers, or labels tends to get them rendered onto the image (hex codes come back as a printed swatch strip). The calling pipeline's prompt rules ([visual-cues.md](visual-cues.md)'s HERO PROMPT skeleton) keep those out of prompts; follow them, not looser habits from other models.
**Any other provider**: the user names it, so the integration cannot be pre-shipped. Write `.impeccable/image-gen.mjs` implementing the same CLI (same flags, print the absolute output path on success, non-zero exit with the error on stderr, transient retries handled inside), set `IMAGE_GEN_PROVIDER` to the provider's name, and the shipped wrapper delegates to it automatically; calling pipelines keep using the shipped command unchanged. Build it from the provider's API docs, and give it square output; do **not** modify the shipped wrapper to add the provider inline.