Major Image
Build a full interactive simulation that looks and feels real — but is not.
Overview
Major Image is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical source: Major Image (spell)
Provider target: OpenClaw
When To Use
- Stakeholders need to experience a proposed feature, product, or workflow before committing to build it.
- A pitch, demo, or presentation needs a working simulation rather than slides.
- Scenario planning requires a realistic preview of how a system would behave under specific conditions.
Workflow
- Define what the illusion needs to demonstrate — the core experience, not every edge case.
- Choose the simulation medium: interactive prototype, synthetic demo environment, scenario walkthrough, or animated preview.
- Build the simulation with enough fidelity to be convincing but do not over-engineer the scaffolding.
- Present the illusion with clear framing: this is a simulation of how it would work, not a working system.
- Capture decisions made based on the simulation and translate them into real implementation requirements.
Deliverables
- An interactive simulation or prototype that demonstrates the proposed experience.
- Clear documentation of what is real and what is simulated.
- A decision log: what the simulation revealed and what was decided based on it.
Guardrails
- Always disclose that a simulation is a simulation. Passing off a prototype as a working product is fraud, not magic.
- Do not simulate outcomes you cannot actually deliver. If the demo promises capabilities the real system will not have, the illusion is a lie.
- Simulations with synthetic user data must be clearly marked — never mix synthetic data with real data.
Default Invocation
Use $major-image to build an interactive simulation, clickable prototype, or scenario preview that demonstrates a proposed experience convincingly enough to drive real decisions.