{"id":53933,"plugin_id":"plugins_6ac91f9f567c8191a862273f4c937890","kind":"skill","collection_source":"plugin_package","comparison_source":null,"observed_at":"2026-10-24T13:55:21.540Z","digest":"e53e079b5f553d8b9380ff0435ade78bd3ee94026d400de55a8005d8189f1be5","against":null,"payload":{"description":"Work out what makes a room in a photo look the way it does, and turn it into a reusable style the user can apply to their own room. Use when the user shares inspiration images, a Pinterest board, a hotel or magazine photo and asks \"how do I get this look\", \"what style is this\", wants to copy a room they saw, or wants to combine elements from several images (the sofa from one, the colours from another).","included_files":[{"relative_path":"references/decoding-rules.md","size_in_bytes":3587},{"relative_path":"references/styles-index.md","size_in_bytes":4391}],"name":"decode-a-look","skill_md_contents":"---\nname: decode-a-look\ndescription: Work out what makes a room in a photo look the way it does, and turn it into a reusable style the user can apply to their own room. Use when the user shares inspiration images, a Pinterest board, a hotel or magazine photo and asks \"how do I get this look\", \"what style is this\", wants to copy a room they saw, or wants to combine elements from several images (the sofa from one, the colours from another).\n---\n\nTurn one or more inspiration images into a style description that would work in a different room, then, if the user wants, apply it to theirs. The job is abstraction: say what produces the look, not what happens to be standing in the picture.\n\nThe user's explicit instructions win over the defaults here.\n\n## 1. Sort the images\n\n- **Inspiration images** show the look to decode.\n- **The user's own room**, if included, is the target. It is never a source of style.\n\nIf it is unclear which is which, ask. If the user wants particular things from particular images (\"this sofa, those colours\"), note which element comes from which image.\n\n## 2. Decode\n\nDescribe the look one level above the furniture, as a designer would if they were not allowed to name a single product. Read `references/decoding-rules.md` and fill these fields:\n\n- **Name** — two or three words, specific. Not a designer's or a brand's name.\n- **Essence** — one or two sentences: what the room feels like and what produces that feeling.\n- **Palette** — two to four base colours that cover most of the room, one to three accents used sparingly, and the balance between them. Give approximate hex values.\n- **Contrast** — how strong, and between what.\n- **Negative space** — how full the room is.\n- **Shapes** — the dominant geometry and silhouettes.\n- **Materials** — four to seven, each with its finish.\n- **Texture and pattern** — how textures mix; the scale and density of any pattern.\n- **Light** — its warmth, and whether it is even or pooled, high or low.\n- **Composition** — symmetry, rhythm, where the eye lands first.\n- **Signature** — at most two gestures that make the look recognisable.\n- **Avoid** — up to six things that would break it.\n\nWith several images, look for what they share and decode that. Say which images were outliers and why. With many images (a whole board), work through them in groups and merge: keep what repeats, drop what appears once.\n\n## 3. Say what cannot be copied\n\nSeparate the look from the building. High ceilings, arched windows, stone floors, panelling and a view are part of why the photo works, and the user's room may have none of them. Say so plainly, and say what carries the look anyway (the colour, the pattern, the sheen) through paint, textiles, rugs, lamps and freestanding pieces.\n\n## 4. Offer the nearest library look\n\nCheck `references/styles-index.md`. If one of the looks is close, name it and say how the decoded look differs. The library looks have full detail sheets in the restyle workflow, so starting from one is often quicker.\n\n## 5. Apply it\n\nIf the user wants the look in their own room, hand the decoded style to the restyle workflow as the style, with their room photo or description, budget level, and renter or owner status.\n\nWhen combining elements from several images:\n\n1. Mentally empty the user's room down to its permanent architecture.\n2. Take from each image only the element the user asked for.\n3. Furnish the empty room with those elements. Do not add them on top of what is already there.\n4. Make them agree with each other: one palette, one metal finish, one level of formality. Say which element had to bend to fit and how.\n\nNever copy the layout or architecture of an inspiration image into the user's room.\n\n## Do not\n\n- Do not identify the designer, hotel, brand or product in an image unless the user asks and it is clearly labelled in what they shared. Describe, do not attribute.\n- Do not list the picture's inventory as if it were the style.\n- Do not promise the user's room will look like the photo. Rooms differ; say what will carry over and what will not.\n"},"changes":[],"summary":"First saved snapshot. No earlier version is available for comparison.","summary_kind":"deterministic","summary_metadata":{}}