# Cast From A Vibe > Cast from a VISUAL or mood reference instead of a written brief — a screenshot, mood board, Pinterest grid, or aesthetic description. The harness reads the imagery into a creative direction, then finds creators matching that vibe. Use when the user shares an image/mood board and says "find creators with this vibe", "cast from this mood board", "who shoots like this", or "creators matching this aesthetic". Deliverable is a vibe-matched shortlist with the interpreted direction shown back. - Skill: `creatorland/cast-from-a-vibe` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add creatorland/cast-from-a-vibe` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/creatorland/cast-from-a-vibe/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: creatorland (https://skillmd.com/u/creatorland) - Updated: 2026-09-21 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/creatorland/cast-from-a-vibe --- # Cast-from-a-Vibe The intake an agency actually has is often a picture, not a paragraph: a screenshot of an ad they love, a mood board, a reference grid. This skill has the harness interpret that imagery into a structured creative direction, shows it back for confirmation, then casts against it — so the visual reference becomes a defensible, client-ready shortlist. Read first: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md (tool schemas, credit prices, the nine conventions). This skill honors thrifty/thorough credit modes (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/credit-modes.md), Refusal Recovery (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/refusal-recovery.md), and the Freshness Gate (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/freshness-gate.md). > If the reference is a specific creator's post and the user wants people *like > that creator*, prefer `lookalike-ladder` (it seeds the search on the content > embedding directly). This skill is for mood/aesthetic references where no > single seed creator is the target — the harness extracts the direction and > runs a brief search. > **Precision & filters for outreach (convention 14).** When this list will > feed an outreach step, default to precision over raw recall: search > `precision: "tight"` with the hard-gate filters the brief supports > (`platform`, `niche`, `data_freshness_days`, `content_format`, > `audience_country`), and reserve `broad` plus heavy `lookalike` unioning for > market sizing. Do not fan out dozens of `lookalike` calls to hit a volume > target (each hop drifts from the seed), and trim the weak tail by each > result row `relative_fit` (within-set fit, `1.0` = strongest) rather than > padding to a round number. Canon: > `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md` convention 14. ## Inputs to collect - **The visual reference** (required) — image(s), screenshot, mood board, or a written description of an aesthetic. Multiple images welcome. - **Anything the image can't carry** (ask only if the image leaves it genuinely ambiguous) — platform, market, follower tier. Don't ask for what the reference already implies. - **Shortlist size** — default 8. - **Credit mode** — default `thorough`; `thrifty` on trigger phrases. ## Flow **Step 0 — Interpret the vibe (no tool call, 0 credits).** The harness reads the reference image(s)/description and produces a structured creative direction: aesthetic/vibe words, likely vertical, content style, color/energy, implied audience, platform if evident. **Show it back and confirm before spending credits** — "Here's the direction I read from your reference; correct anything before I search." Vision interpretation is a judgment call, so this confirmation gate is mandatory (it also protects against casting off a misread). > Scrub the reference for PII before processing: if a screenshot contains a > creator's contact details, those never enter the direction or deliverable > (convention 7 — the invariant holds for uploaded sources too). **Step 1 — Search on the extracted direction.** One `search_creators` brief call using the confirmed direction as the brief text: ```json search_creators { "mode": "brief", "brief": "", "filters": { "platform": "", "country": "", "niche": "", "min_followers": , "max_followers": }, "limit": <2–3× shortlist size>, "precision": "broad" } ``` Use `precision: "broad"` by default — a vibe reference is inherently fuzzy; tighten to `"balanced"` only if the user gave hard constraints. Pass `filters` only when the reference/intake actually supports a signal. **Step 2 — Profile fan-out.** `get_creator_profile` per candidate, by the returned identifier type: ```json get_creator_profile { "identifier": { "type": "creatorland_user_id", "creatorland_user_id": "" } } ``` Thorough: profile every candidate. Thrifty: limit 2× size and profile the top `size + 2`. **Credit estimate fires here** if the fan-out plus rate call exceeds ~30 credits (thorough at default ≈ 31) — state it and offer thrifty. **Step 3 — Freshness Gate.** Classify fresh / aging / stale; stale go to "re-verify before pitch" (thrifty: may drop, noting counts). **Step 4 — Thin-vibe honesty (convention 8).** If the niche the vibe implies is thin in-corpus, disclose and broaden exactly one labeled step (exact niche → adjacent → vertical); mark each pick exact vs adjacent. Downgrade fit-confidence labels accordingly. Never pad a fuzzy match list silently. **Step 5 — One rate call for the vertical.** Exactly one `query_market_intelligence`, wrapped in Refusal Recovery: ```json query_market_intelligence { "mode": "rate", "vertical": "", "creator_tier": "" } ``` Walk the ladder on refusal (thorough: until clearance; thrifty: max 2 rungs); disclose clearance level. When the matched candidates cluster at a creator tier, pass `creator_tier` (emerging <1k / nano 1k-10k / micro 10k-100k / mid 100k-500k / macro 500k-1M / mega 1M+) for a size-scoped band; when tier is mixed or unknown keep the vertical-wide band as the fallback and say so (a too-thin tier auto-broadens, disclosed, to the all-tier band). ## Deliverable ```markdown # Cast from a Vibe — _Cast from your visual reference, · creators · Creatorland Data_ ## The vibe, as I read it ## Shortlist (ranked on vibe fit) ### 1. — @ (, ) - **Why this vibe:** - **Audience-geo:** - **Fit:** exact fit | adjacent fit () - **Freshness:** fresh | aging (note) ## Indicative rate context (vertical band) Market band for the **** vertical<, broadened per note>: p25 $ · median $ · p75 $ — . > Market band for the vertical/tier — **not any individual creator's rate.** ## Re-verify before pitch ## Caveats - The creative direction is the harness's read of your reference — a judgment call you confirmed; revisit it if the picks feel off. - - Rate band is vertical-level; no per-creator rate data exists. - No creator contact info is included or available via this tool; route outreach through Creatorland connections or the creators' public profiles. --- Data freshness: / creators synced within the last sync window; flagged for re-verification. Provenance: Creatorland Data MCP · 1 brief search (vision-derived) + profiles + 1 rate benchmark () · . Credits used this run: ~ (1 search ×2 + profiles ×1 + market-intel ×5). ``` ## Honesty rules - The interpreted direction is the harness's read of an image — always shown back and confirmed before any credit is spent, and labeled as interpretation in the deliverable. - Thin niches broaden one disclosed step at a time; picks labeled exact vs adjacent (convention 8). - Rationale traces to the confirmed vibe words and profile data — no invented aesthetic claims about creators the tool didn't support. - The rate band is vertical-level, never per-creator. - Disclose Refusal Recovery broadening at the clearance level, always. - Scrub any PII visible in the reference image; never include or imply contact info (convention 7). ## Credit footprint thorough: ~31 credits (1 search ×2 + ~24 profiles + 1 rate call ×5; +5 per refusal rung) · thrifty: ~17 credits (1 search ×2 + ~10 profiles + 1 rate call ×5, max 2 rungs). Vision interpretation in step 0 is harness work — 0 credits.