{"schema":"ai-blocks-role/1","id":"three-look-product-photos","name":"Product photo styling planner","summary":"Share product photos, brand facts and a visual reference. Get styled shot plans, flash-photo ideas and a reference-led look for your own product.","area":"product","family":{"id":"product-photos","name":"Make product photos"},"lead":"three-look-product-photos","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["A brand file with your colours, look and product details","A style sheet and nine matching photo prompts","Six flash snapshot prompts from one real occasion","A prompt that matches the look of your reference photo, with the pictures ranked","A check list for every picture at full size"],"inputs":["Your website, as a link or saved pages","Your product photos: the front, the back of the pack, in use, and a close-up of the print","A photo whose look you like (optional, needed for the third look)","Who the photos are for (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["Your website, as a link or saved pages","Your product photos: the front, the back of the pack, in use, and a close-up of the print","A photo whose look you like (optional, needed for the third look)"],"get":["A brand file with your colours, look and product details","A style sheet and nine matching photo prompts","Six flash snapshot prompts from one real occasion","A prompt that matches the look of your reference photo, with the pictures ranked"]},"helpfulInputs":["Full-size photos of your product from the front, back and in use","A close-up of the print on the pack, so printed words stay spelled right","Your colour codes, if you have them"],"fit":["You only have phone photos and need many more for ads and your shop.","You like the look of someone else's photo and want that feel for your product.","Your product photos all look alike and you need some variety."],"limits":["You need real customer pictures: the flash snapshots are staged, so use photos from your own customers instead.","You only want one plain studio photo set: use the Product photo shoot planner.","You want to fix flaws in pictures you already made: use the Ad image planner."],"tools":["Claude: Keeps the product details the same across all three looks in one run.","GPT Image: Takes your product photos as references and keeps the pack close to the real one.","Nano Banana: Takes many reference photos at once and handles shiny packs such as foil pouches.","Claude: A project keeps the start file as its instructions and the other files as knowledge, even on a free account.","Gemini: A Gem keeps the start file as instructions that Gemini follows every time you use it.","Shopify: If you sell on Shopify, it exports your products and variants as a spreadsheet, so offers.md matches every variant.","Nano Banana: Takes up to 6 product photos plus 3 style references, which suits holding one look across nine frames.","GPT Image: Keeps the product close to your reference photos, and holds small edits across rounds.","GPT Image: Follows long scene descriptions well, and its thinking mode plans the frame before it draws.","Nano Banana: Takes up to 10 object photos and holds the product steady across follow-up edits.","Veo: For the optional short clip. It can start from your approved frame and add sound if you want it.","Nano Banana: Takes up to 3 style reference images apart from the product photos, so the look and the product stay separate.","GPT Image: Keeps the product close to your photo while it takes the light from a second image."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It has HANDOFF.md and four skill files, in the order they run: Brand profile builder, Product photo shoot planner, Flash snapshot product photo maker and Reference-style product photo maker.","Give the folder to Claude, in Claude Code or as files in a Claude Project, and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Have your inputs ready: your website link, your phone photos and one photo whose look you like.","Take the prompts to your image tool. You need a tool or account that makes images, and it may be paid.","Make frame 1 of each look first and check it against your real product before you make the rest.","Look at every finished picture at full size. Treat the flash snapshots as staged images, not real customer photos. If you use one in an ad, label it AI-generated. Never present it as a customer or event photo."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Builds your brand file","description":"Uses the brand file skill to read your site and tag every colour, product detail and claim with where it came from."},{"name":"Plans a styled photo set","description":"Uses the shoot planner to write a style sheet, plan nine frames on a grid and write one prompt for each."},{"name":"Makes flash snapshots","description":"Uses the flash snapshot skill to set the flash look, plan one real occasion in time order and write six prompts."},{"name":"Copies a look you like","description":"Uses the reference photo skill to read your reference as the set that made it, keep or swap each part, and rank the pictures."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.","Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.","Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.","Define how success will be measured before building."],"pitfalls":["Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.","Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.","Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","The product in every prompt matches your photos in shape, colours and printing, and the three looks are clearly different from each other.","The reference prompt copies the light and mood, not the other brand's marks, logo or people.","Every requirement can be tested."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You only have phone photos and need many more for ads and your shop.","task":"Share product photos, brand facts and a visual reference. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your website, as a link or saved pages","Photos of your real product, from the front, back and in use","A photo whose look you like (optional)","Customer reviews or your ad results (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Brand file","contains":"Your colours, look, prices and product details, each tagged with where it came from."},{"name":"Styled photo set","contains":"A style sheet and nine frames on a grid, each with a prompt for your image tool."},{"name":"Flash snapshots","contains":"The flash look, one real occasion in time order, and six prompts."},{"name":"Reference look","contains":"What is kept, swapped and dropped from your reference photo, one prompt, and the pictures ranked."},{"name":"Checks","contains":"A list for looking at each picture at full size next to your real product."},{"name":"HAND-BACK SUMMARY","contains":"Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Share product photos, brand facts and a visual reference. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","functions":[{"name":"Product photo styling planner","description":"Share product photos, brand facts and a visual reference. Get styled shot plans, flash-photo ideas and a reference-led look for your own product.","method":"three-look-product-photos","when":["You only have phone photos and need many more for ads and your shop.","You like the look of someone else's photo and want that feel for your product.","Your product photos all look alike and you need some variety."],"inputs":["Your website, as a link or saved pages","Your product photos: the front, the back of the pack, in use, and a close-up of the print","A photo whose look you like (optional, needed for the third look)","Who the photos are for (optional)"],"deliverables":["A brand file with your colours, look and product details","A style sheet and nine matching photo prompts","Six flash snapshot prompts from one real occasion","A prompt that matches the look of your reference photo, with the pictures ranked","A check list for every picture at full size"]},{"name":"Brand profile builder","description":"Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","method":"website-brand-brain-builder","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"]},{"name":"Product photo shoot planner","description":"Plan a product photo shoot where every picture matches. Give it your product photos and colours. You get a style sheet and a prompt for each frame.","method":"product-photo-shoot-planner","when":["You need a set of product photos for a launch, a product page or social, and they must look like one shoot.","Your current photos all look different and your grid looks messy.","You want a short loop clip of the set for a story or reel."],"inputs":["Real photos of the exact product and variant","Your brand colours as hex codes, your photo style, places and what you never show","Where the photos go and in which size (product page 1:1, feed 4:5, stories 9:16)","Who uses it, where and when (optional)","Whether you want the loop clip, and whether you hold rights to a music track (optional)"],"deliverables":["A six-line style sheet for the whole set","A frame list, each with its job, distance, angle and what it shows","One prompt per frame, plus a check of the whole set side by side","An optional plan for a 6 to 8 second loop clip","Any check the set still missed, one line each"]},{"name":"Flash snapshot product photo maker","description":"Plan six flash snapshot product photos from one real occasion. Get the flash settings, a shot roll and one image prompt per photo.","method":"flash-product-photos","when":["Your ads look too polished and you want photos that feel like real life.","You need a \"people like you\" strip of photos for social or an email.","Your product belongs to a real moment, such as breakfast, a picnic or a dinner with friends."],"inputs":["Real photos of the product, including one of it in a hand or in use","Who buys it, and where, when and with whom they use it","Your brand's places, colours and what you never show","Where the photos will be used (feed ad, post, email)","How many photos (optional; 6 is the default)"],"deliverables":["The three flash dials, set for your brand","A roll of frames from one occasion, for you to approve","One prompt per photo, written in a fixed order","A check log for each photo, with what was remade and why","Any check the roll still missed, one line each, or none"]},{"name":"Reference-style product photo maker","description":"Make product photos that match a look you like. Attach your product and one reference photo. Get an image prompt and ranked pictures.","method":"reference-product-photos","when":["You have a few pack shots and need more photos for ads, emails or your product page.","You've seen a photo whose light and mood you want on your own product.","You want a bold camera look, such as blind shadows or tilt-shift, for a feed ad."],"inputs":["Real photos of the exact product and variant","One photo whose look you want to copy (your own, a past ad, or any photo you like), or the name of a camera look","What the picture is for (identity, in use, texture, in its place) and where it will go","Your brand colours and what you never show (optional)","The sizes you need (optional)"],"deliverables":["A five-part reading of the reference photo","A keep, swap or drop line for each part","The finished image prompt, ready to paste","If your chat can make images, the pictures ranked with a score out of 100, and a reject list","If it can't, any of the four checks the prompt still missed"]},{"name":"Product context file writer","description":"Share product facts, audience and positioning. Get a reviewed context file that other marketing skills can reference.","method":"product-context-builder","when":["You are starting a new marketing project and want one source of truth.","You keep pasting the same product background into every chat.","Your positioning changed and old notes are out of date.","A new teammate needs to learn the audience and tone fast."],"inputs":["Answers about your product and customers","Your website or existing brand notes (optional)","Competitor names (optional)","Any recent learnings to record (optional)"],"deliverables":["A product marketing context file","A summary of what the file already holds","A change log of updates","Gaps you still need to fill"]},{"name":"Jakob Nielsen","description":"Review a website, app or form through Jakob Nielsen’s recorded approach. Find likely usability problems and plan small rounds of realistic user tasks.","method":"jakob-nielsen","when":["Review a website or app against the 10 usability heuristics and list what to fix first","Plan a cheap user test with five people and realistic tasks","Rewrite an error message so people know what went wrong and how to fix it","Decide whether a new, clever design pattern is worth breaking user habits for","Cut a crowded page down to what users really need","Turn feedback from a survey or meeting into a plan to watch what people really do","Set up rounds of testing so each fix gets checked before the next one","Make a form or checkout easier to finish"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Jakob Nielsen would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Jakob Nielsen's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"April Dunford","description":"Work out why buyers should choose your product. Use April Dunford's positioning method to find real alternatives, buyer value and a clear sales pitch.","method":"april-dunford","when":["List the real alternatives your buyers weigh, including doing nothing","Turn a list of features into the value buyers would choose you for","Pick the customers who care most about what only you do","Find out why you win deals, and build your message on it","Separate the value that wins deals from the objections you just need to handle","Turn a bigger rival's strength into a weakness for the right buyers","Build a sales pitch that tells a story instead of walking through features","Decide what you're positioning before the team meets: one product, a suite or the whole company"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way April Dunford would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in April Dunford's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"three-look-product-photos","name":"Product photo styling planner","summary":"Share product photos, brand facts and a visual reference. Get styled shot plans, flash-photo ideas and a reference-led look for your own product.","task":"product-photos","kind":"workflow","path":"/workflows/three-look-product-photos","revision":"5c0daa98f0f40771ef9c0ee770e4f93cacef9fdd9757f7e8c183566ec6132baa","skillPath":"/skills/three-look-product-photos/SKILL.md","bundled":false,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","summary":"Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","task":"brand-file","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/website-brand-brain-builder","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","skillPath":"/skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"product-photo-shoot-planner","name":"Product photo shoot planner","summary":"Plan a product photo shoot where every picture matches. Give it your product photos and colours. 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Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue.","reuse":"Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package."},"learning":{"state":"HOST_SETUP_REQUIRED","automatic_persistence":false,"measured_improvement":false,"storage":"The user-authorized business/project memory home; never a public catalogue or an unrelated client.","index":"memory/INDEX.md","records":["memory/preferences.md","memory/corrections.md","memory/decisions.md","memory/checks.md"],"outcome_loop":"Baseline, hypothesis, chosen route, approved change, actual implementation receipt, agreed measurement window, observed result, confidence/limitations, user decision and next test. Preserve negative and inconclusive outcomes.","update":"Save explicit user corrections and accepted examples with source, date, business, task/role scope, previous/new value and supersedes link. Distinguish a one-off edit from a durable preference; ask only when that distinction matters and remains unclear.","retrieval":"Read the short index and only relevant current records. Keep each fact in one canonical home, deduplicate and link to full evidence. Supersede stale guidance without silently erasing its history.","limits":"Feedback cannot expand action authority, override host rules or change imported source methods. Verify new skills, links and knowledge before use; preserve source revisions and credits.","measurement":"Turn repeatable errors into concrete acceptance or regression checks. Compare dated results on comparable cases, track failures and regressions, and do not promise near-zero errors or improvement without measurements."},"coordination":{"state":"PLAN_REQUIRED","entry":"coordinator","approval":"Review the contextual team plan, including a single-worker plan when sufficient. Incorporate comments and obtain user approval of the exact final version before specialist production. A preparation is not an approved plan.","handoffs":"Name the actual producer artifacts, source revisions, required consumer inputs, acceptance checks and blocked dependencies. Verify the artifact content before advancing.","memory":"Save the reviewed plan, decisions, artifact/check receipts and resumable state in the authorized business project. Actual persistent storage must be verified."},"routes":[{"method":"three-look-product-photos","name":"Product photo styling planner","kind":"workflow","primary":true,"purpose":"primary","when":["You only have phone photos and need many more for ads and your shop.","You like the look of someone else's photo and want that feel for your product.","Your product photos all look alike and you need some variety."],"inputs":["Your website, as a link or saved pages","Your product photos: the front, the back of the pack, in use, and a close-up of the print","A photo whose look you like (optional, needed for the third look)","Who the photos are for (optional)"],"deliverables":["A brand file with your colours, look and product details","A style sheet and nine matching photo prompts","Six flash snapshot prompts from one real occasion","A prompt that matches the look of your reference photo, with the pictures ranked","A check list for every picture at full size"],"instruction":"skills/three-look-product-photos/SKILL.md","revision":"5c0daa98f0f40771ef9c0ee770e4f93cacef9fdd9757f7e8c183566ec6132baa","invocation":"Read the complete procedure, required inputs, real step order and stop gates. Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"],"instruction":"skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"product-photo-shoot-planner","name":"Product photo shoot planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You need a set of product photos for a launch, a product page or social, and they must look like one shoot.","Your current photos all look different and your grid looks messy.","You want a short loop clip of the set for a story or reel."],"inputs":["Real photos of the exact product and variant","Your brand colours as hex codes, your photo style, places and what you never show","Where the photos go and in which size (product page 1:1, feed 4:5, stories 9:16)","Who uses it, where and when (optional)","Whether you want the loop clip, and whether you hold rights to a music track (optional)"],"deliverables":["A six-line style sheet for the whole set","A frame list, each with its job, distance, angle and what it shows","One prompt per frame, plus a check of the whole set side by side","An optional plan for a 6 to 8 second loop clip","Any check the set still missed, one line each"],"instruction":"skills/product-photo-shoot-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"745384802bb05a131b97c18fc81550969bb0f0ce365b67e923e840afc81ad4aa","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"flash-product-photos","name":"Flash snapshot product photo maker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Your ads look too polished and you want photos that feel like real life.","You need a \"people like you\" strip of photos for social or an email.","Your product belongs to a real moment, such as breakfast, a picnic or a dinner with friends."],"inputs":["Real photos of the product, including one of it in a hand or in use","Who buys it, and where, when and with whom they use it","Your brand's places, colours and what you never show","Where the photos will be used (feed ad, post, email)","How many photos (optional; 6 is the default)"],"deliverables":["The three flash dials, set for your brand","A roll of frames from one occasion, for you to approve","One prompt per photo, written in a fixed order","A check log for each photo, with what was remade and why","Any check the roll still missed, one line each, or none"],"instruction":"skills/flash-product-photos/SKILL.md","revision":"bd04180df51adb13be64c33154fdb5d2fb38f8b504f43d886361401da8ea1522","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"reference-product-photos","name":"Reference-style product photo maker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a few pack shots and need more photos for ads, emails or your product page.","You've seen a photo whose light and mood you want on your own product.","You want a bold camera look, such as blind shadows or tilt-shift, for a feed ad."],"inputs":["Real photos of the exact product and variant","One photo whose look you want to copy (your own, a past ad, or any photo you like), or the name of a camera look","What the picture is for (identity, in use, texture, in its place) and where it will go","Your brand colours and what you never show (optional)","The sizes you need (optional)"],"deliverables":["A five-part reading of the reference photo","A keep, swap or drop line for each part","The finished image prompt, ready to paste","If your chat can make images, the pictures ranked with a score out of 100, and a reject list","If it can't, any of the four checks the prompt still missed"],"instruction":"skills/reference-product-photos/SKILL.md","revision":"df95002a5c00f67c57f8ba568f2fa68552abbf8e3ec69fd6fc058d3af81af475","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"product-context-builder","name":"Product context file writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You are starting a new marketing project and want one source of truth.","You keep pasting the same product background into every chat.","Your positioning changed and old notes are out of date.","A new teammate needs to learn the audience and tone fast."],"inputs":["Answers about your product and customers","Your website or existing brand notes (optional)","Competitor names (optional)","Any recent learnings to record (optional)"],"deliverables":["A product marketing context file","A summary of what the file already holds","A change log of updates","Gaps you still need to fill"],"instruction":"skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"2fe017f2b8b417b6dd382b110c57a4f0619bff4b1b88d50e4fbe771219d3f78b","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"jakob-nielsen","name":"Jakob Nielsen","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Review a website or app against the 10 usability heuristics and list what to fix first","Plan a cheap user test with five people and realistic tasks","Rewrite an error message so people know what went wrong and how to fix it","Decide whether a new, clever design pattern is worth breaking user habits for","Cut a crowded page down to what users really need","Turn feedback from a survey or meeting into a plan to watch what people really do","Set up rounds of testing so each fix gets checked before the next one","Make a form or checkout easier to finish"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Jakob Nielsen would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Jakob Nielsen's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/jakob-nielsen/SKILL.md","revision":"28c978e0ddcf844895ad692a43b5e2f52f71a6cb8e064ce3712e64a738df2faf","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"april-dunford","name":"April Dunford","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["List the real alternatives your buyers weigh, including doing nothing","Turn a list of features into the value buyers would choose you for","Pick the customers who care most about what only you do","Find out why you win deals, and build your message on it","Separate the value that wins deals from the objections you just need to handle","Turn a bigger rival's strength into a weakness for the right buyers","Build a sales pitch that tells a story instead of walking through features","Decide what you're positioning before the team meets: one product, a suite or the whole company"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way April Dunford would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in April Dunford's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/april-dunford/SKILL.md","revision":"aa67c73ed8450e8793b314738a1fce4264114f6c7f1e38b398eae4e1561f5746","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Claude: Keeps the product details the same across all three looks in one run.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"GPT Image: Takes your product photos as references and keeps the pack close to the real one.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Nano Banana: Takes many reference photos at once and handles shiny packs such as foil pouches.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Claude: A project keeps the start file as its instructions and the other files as knowledge, even on a free account.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Gemini: A Gem keeps the start file as instructions that Gemini follows every time you use it.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Shopify: If you sell on Shopify, it exports your products and variants as a spreadsheet, so offers.md matches every variant.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Nano Banana: Takes up to 6 product photos plus 3 style references, which suits holding one look across nine frames.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"GPT Image: Keeps the product close to your reference photos, and holds small edits across rounds.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"GPT Image: Follows long scene descriptions well, and its thinking mode plans the frame before it draws.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Nano Banana: Takes up to 10 object photos and holds the product steady across follow-up edits.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Veo: For the optional short clip. It can start from your approved frame and add sound if you want it.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Nano Banana: Takes up to 3 style reference images apart from the product photos, so the look and the product stay separate.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"GPT Image: Keeps the product close to your photo while it takes the light from a second image.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-three-look-product-photos\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped product photo styling planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Product photo styling planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/three-look-product-photos · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare product photos, brand facts and a visual reference. Get styled shot plans, flash-photo ideas and a reference-led look for your own product.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A brand file with your colours, look and product details\n- A style sheet and nine matching photo prompts\n- Six flash snapshot prompts from one real occasion\n- A prompt that matches the look of your reference photo, with the pictures ranked\n- A check list for every picture at full size\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Builds your brand file: Uses the brand file skill to read your site and tag every colour, product detail and claim with where it came from.\n2. Plans a styled photo set: Uses the shoot planner to write a style sheet, plan nine frames on a grid and write one prompt for each.\n3. Makes flash snapshots: Uses the flash snapshot skill to set the flash look, plan one real occasion in time order and write six prompts.\n4. Copies a look you like: Uses the reference photo skill to read your reference as the set that made it, keep or swap each part, and rank the pictures.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.\n- Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.\n- Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.\n- Define how success will be measured before building.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.\n- Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.\n- Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You only have phone photos and need many more for ads and your shop.\nGiven: Your website, as a link or saved pages; Photos of your real product, from the front, back and in use; A photo whose look you like (optional); Customer reviews or your ad results (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Brand file: Your colours, look, prices and product details, each tagged with where it came from.\n- Styled photo set: A style sheet and nine frames on a grid, each with a prompt for your image tool.\n- Flash snapshots: The flash look, one real occasion in time order, and six prompts.\n- Reference look: What is kept, swapped and dropped from your reference photo, one prompt, and the pictures ranked.\n- Checks: A list for looking at each picture at full size next to your real product.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Jakob Nielsen (skills/jakob-nielsen/SKILL.md) and April Dunford (skills/april-dunford/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You need real customer pictures: the flash snapshots are staged, so use photos from your own customers instead.\n- You only want one plain studio photo set: use the Product photo shoot planner.\n- You want to fix flaws in pictures you already made: use the Ad image planner.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its product context, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: what the product does, who it is for, current goals and constraints, and the user evidence available (research, tickets, analytics). Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If product context is needed, reuse an existing product brief or use the context method to write a reviewed product context file from supplied facts: skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md. Files: product-context.md, work/evidence.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate user evidence from opinions and requests. Record goals, constraints, owners and decisions already made so they are not reopened by accident. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/three-look-product-photos/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Product photo styling planner (primary): [complete method](../three-look-product-photos/SKILL.md), revision 5c0daa98f0f4\n- Brand profile builder: [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Product photo shoot planner: [complete method](../product-photo-shoot-planner/SKILL.md), revision 745384802bb0\n- Flash snapshot product photo maker: [complete method](../flash-product-photos/SKILL.md), revision bd04180df51a\n- Reference-style product photo maker: [complete method](../reference-product-photos/SKILL.md), revision df95002a5c00\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Jakob Nielsen (review lens): [complete method](../jakob-nielsen/SKILL.md), revision 28c978e0ddcf\n- April Dunford (review lens): [complete method](../april-dunford/SKILL.md), revision aa67c73ed845\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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