Creative Tools

Purpose

Provide structured guidance for creative production tools: generating and iterating performance ad copy at scale, creating brand-consistent content with SEO optimization, automating vector and raster creative production, packaging creative asset handoff for cross-functional stakeholders, and processing PDF documents programmatically. This domain connects ad creative workflows, content marketing pipelines, visual production operations, and document automation into a coherent creative toolset.

Domain Coverage

This package represents the creative tools domain. It covers seven interconnected capabilities: performance ad creative generation with platform specs and iteration tracking, content creation with brand voice analysis and SEO optimization, PDF processing for document automation, vector workflow automation for SVG/icon normalization, raster retouch pipelines for non-destructive image production, creative QA gate automation for review/signoff/release decisions, and creative asset handoff for release-ready delivery. Mini-skills are separated for routing and selective loading while still supporting multi-skill composition.

How to Use

1. Always begin with self-diagnostic. Start with a quick package integrity check, then validate only the activated working set. The self-diagnostic rules are defined in self-diagnostic-protocol.md.
2. Identify the primary mini-skill that best matches the task.
3. Check the Multi-Skill Activation Guide below to load adjacent mini-skills.
4. Open the corresponding reference file under references/skills/.
5. Open the corresponding examples file under examples/skills/ if concrete patterns are needed.
6. Use resources/skill-catalog.md for the full index.
7. Use resources/routing-guide.md when a task spans multiple mini-skills.
8. Use resources/asset-link-index.md to find every auxiliary folder and file.

Multi-Skill Activation Guide

Do not treat mini-skills as isolated when the task spans multiple concerns. For all non-trivial tasks, apply the universal composition rule in composition-protocol.md.

Common combinations:

• Full ad campaign: ad-creative (primary) + content-creator (for brand voice consistency) + raster-retouch-pipeline (for visual cleanup) + creative-asset-handoff (for final delivery)
• Content marketing pipeline: content-creator (primary) + ad-creative (for promotion copy) + creative-asset-handoff (for release package)
• Brand launch content: content-creator (primary) + ad-creative + raster-retouch-pipeline + pdf-processing (for branded PDFs)
• Icon system release: vector-workflow-automation (primary) + creative-asset-handoff (for engineering and design-system delivery)
• Document automation: pdf-processing (primary) + creative-qa-gate-automation + content-creator (for document content) + creative-asset-handoff (for distribution readiness)
• Campaign QA/signoff: creative-qa-gate-automation (primary) + ad-creative + content-creator + raster-retouch-pipeline + creative-asset-handoff
• Cross-channel creative release: creative-asset-handoff (primary) + creative-qa-gate-automation + vector-workflow-automation + raster-retouch-pipeline
• Editorial launch package: content-creator (primary) + creative-qa-gate-automation + ad-creative + creative-asset-handoff
• Document delivery QA: pdf-processing (primary) + creative-qa-gate-automation + creative-asset-handoff

Package Structure

• SKILL.md — lightweight router and high-level index
• composition-protocol.md — universal rules for selecting and combining mini-skills
• self-diagnostic-protocol.md — self-diagnostic rules for this domain package
• resources/skill-catalog.md — full catalog of extracted mini-skills
• resources/routing-guide.md — navigation and composition rules
• resources/asset-link-index.md — complete link map for every auxiliary folder and file
• resources/manifest.json — machine-readable package manifest
• shared-rules/STYLE-GUARDRAILS.md — package-wide output guardrails used across mini-skills
• shared-rules/ANTI-PATTERNS.md — package-wide mistakes and rejection checks used across mini-skills
• references/skills/*.md — full extracted guidance per mini-skill
• examples/skills/*.md — extracted code snippets and usage samples

Mini-Skills Index

ad-creative

• Summary: Generate high-performing ad copy at scale with platform-specific specs, angle-based organization, character-count validation, AI+Remotion visual workflows, and performance-driven iteration.
• Open reference: references/skills/ad-creative.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/ad-creative.md

content-creator

• Summary: Create brand-consistent content with voice analysis, SEO-optimized blog posts, platform-specific social media content, and content calendar planning using scripts and reference frameworks.
• Open reference: references/skills/content-creator.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/content-creator.md

pdf-processing

• Summary: Process PDF documents programmatically using Python (pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab) and CLI tools (qpdf, pdftk) for merging, splitting, text extraction, table extraction, form filling, OCR, and creation.
• Open reference: references/skills/pdf-processing.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/pdf-processing.md

vector-workflow-automation

• Summary: Guide automated and semi-automated vector production workflows including SVG cleanup, icon normalization, path simplification, token-aware outputs, batch export planning, and design-system-ready QA.
• Open reference: references/skills/vector-workflow-automation.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/vector-workflow-automation.md

raster-retouch-pipeline

• Summary: Run non-destructive raster retouch operations for cleanup, correction, crop/resize variants, profile-aware exports, and review gates across web/social/product channels.
• Open reference: references/skills/raster-retouch-pipeline.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/raster-retouch-pipeline.md

creative-qa-gate-automation

• Summary: Run pre-handoff creative QA gates with automated/manual checks, severity triage, revision loops, signoff matrices, and release blocker decisions.
• Open reference: references/skills/creative-qa-gate-automation.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/creative-qa-gate-automation.md

creative-asset-handoff

• Summary: Package final creative deliverables with deterministic naming, source/export separation, versioning, provenance notes, stakeholder usage instructions, and acceptance criteria.
• Open reference: references/skills/creative-asset-handoff.md
• Open examples: examples/skills/creative-asset-handoff.md

Validation

• Keep detailed implementation guidance outside the main SKILL.md.
• Prefer adding or updating auxiliary files rather than re-expanding the router.
• Preserve skill-specific constraints, examples, and workflow details in the extracted files.

Output Requirements

• Keep the main file concise and navigational.
• Store deep guidance in auxiliary files.
• Use descriptive, stable file names for extracted mini-skills.