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name: make-real-cards
description: Create front and back cards from a photo with Snapshot templates or AI, or turn user-selected and ChatGPT-generated artwork into physical trading cards, sports cards, oversized prints or slabs. Use when someone wants to print, order or preview a physical collectible from an image.
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Use Snapshot's MCP tools to save artwork, show a physical product preview, and let the customer complete checkout.

Follow Snapshot's website flow: select artwork and a back, choose the product/quantity/finish, preview, **Add to cart**, then **View cart** or keep creating. Use those familiar customer-facing labels. The studio is simply the Snapshot preview embedded in ChatGPT; there is no separate staff approval or review submission. Do not tell customers that a skill requires approval or ask for a second chat confirmation of choices they already supplied.

Act when the user asks about making a physical item, printing, ordering or previewing a physical product. Creating or editing a digital image alone does not authorize an import or a commerce offer. Snapshot is for adult collectors, parents and authorized team organizers; do not target children under 13.

## Create a card from a photo

First distinguish a subject photo from a finished flat card design. Respect a workflow the customer already chose; ask which workflow they want only when it is unclear.

- **Snapshot static template:** call snapshot_templates with kind `static`. Show the available styles and use the selected template's exact ID, field keys, required values and supported options. Call snapshot_create_card with kind `static`, the actual photo, customer-provided fields, optional supported logo/stats/colors/variant, and a card name. This uses the website template renderer to save the front and back together. Photo preparation uses Snapshot's background-removal provider; static rendering does not consume the AI card-generation allowance.
- **Snapshot AI generator:** call snapshot_templates with kind `ai`. After the customer selects a style and supplies the required fields, call snapshot_create_card with kind `ai`. This sends the selected photo and entered details to Snapshot's existing AI provider and uses the same account allowance as the website. Use snapshot_creation_status for progress and show the front and back choices in the studio. The customer selects both and clicks **Save front and back** (snapshot_choose_card is app-only). Never choose those images on their behalf or preview an unfinished card.
- **ChatGPT-generated or uploaded finished design:** use the Artwork workflow below. Snapshot imports the actual selected front and back without applying another template.

Do not invent details, infer facts from a face, ask for unsupported fields or guess template IDs. Return only information provided by the customer or the tool. Optional fields can be omitted. These photo workflows produce both sides; do not force customers through a second back-creation flow unless they ask to replace a side.

Keep the returned creation ID. Check snapshot_creation_status about every ten seconds, for at most five minutes, then offer **Check progress** or **My creations**. Omitting creation_id lists recent creations. Use snapshot_resume_creation only for a returned draft or failed creation. A pending or ambiguous job must be recovered, not submitted again. A ready creation returns its artwork ID for the existing preview and cart flow. Never claim success without that result.

## Artwork

Pass the actual authorized image through the tool's file parameter. A file needs download_url and file_id; do not invent a URL, send a chat transcript, or substitute a screenshot of the conversation. If the host cannot pass a generated image directly, open snapshot_catalog and use the studio's file picker/upload, or ask the customer to attach the image. Some desktop views have no file picker: say so plainly and request the actual attachment; never claim a website upload compl

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