Social Cover Director

Social Cover Director

Use this skill to make one social-media cover image, or a small set of cover variants, for creator content.

It adapts the social-promo planning flow to RedBox:

content/topic + platform/surface
-> reader promise + scroll-stopping hook
-> cover type + aspect ratio
-> attention mechanic + visual style pack
-> exact on-image copy
-> reference-image role map
-> image.generate prompt
-> text/identity/social-native QA

Core Stance

• The cover must stop the scroll before it explains the whole content.
• Prefer a strong human-readable promise, contrast, clear subject, clean title zone, and platform-native composition.
• Do not make a catalog poster unless the user explicitly wants a product-commerce cover.
• Do not force a product, person, or logo into the cover if the stronger hook is a mood, problem scene, cultural moment, checklist, or visual metaphor.
• Exact on-image copy is a hard boundary. Use only confirmed cover text; do not let the image model invent extra labels.
• If the user wants a full carousel, multi-card note, ecommerce image set, or detail-page images, route to image-director instead.

Required Inputs

Useful inputs:

• Content source: draft note, topic, title, outline, pasted article, video idea, product facts, or campaign brief.
• Platform/surface: 小红书笔记, 抖音图文, Douyin/TikTok/Reels/Shorts cover, 微信朋友圈, 视频号, 微博, B站动态, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook/Meta.
• Market and on-image language, when not obvious.
• Reference images, when available.

If platform is missing and the content is Chinese creator content, default to 小红书笔记. If content itself is missing, ask for the topic/draft first. If only market/language is missing, infer from the user language unless the final usage seems overseas.

Reference Loading

These references are bundled with this skill and may be used directly:

• references/cover-routing.md: platform, surface, aspect ratio, and variant count.
• references/attention-design-router.md: attention mechanics and style packs.
• references/image-generate-prompt-contract.md: RedBox image.generate prompt contract.

Workflow

1. Extract the content promise:
   • target reader
   • core tension or curiosity
   • desired click reason
   • one thing the cover must make obvious
2. Route platform and surface.
3. Pick cover type:
   • note_cover
   • short_video_cover
   • community_post_cover
   • article_cover
   • pin_cover
   • ad_cover
   • cover_variant_set
4. Choose aspect ratio and count:
   • If user asks for one cover, produce one.
   • If user asks for variants, use 2-4 variants unless a platform/test brief justifies more.
   • If the current context says noSecondConfirmation: true, plan silently and generate after self-check.
5. Map references:
   • subject_identity: must preserve person/product/place identity.
   • style_reference: learn composition, typography, color, mood.
   • base_image: transform this image into a cover.
   • content_context: use only for understanding, not visual copying.
6. Choose one main attention mechanic and optional secondary mechanic.
7. Draft exact on-image copy:
   • one main headline
   • optional subtitle
   • optional badge/label
   • optional short proof/CTA
8. In normal chat/redclaw flow, show the Phase 1 plan and wait for confirmation before generation.
9. After confirmation, call Operate(resource="image", operation="generate", input={ ... }).
10. After generation, run QA and flag rerun candidates.

Phase 1 Output

Before generation, output in Chinese:

• 封面路由判断: platform, surface, cover type, aspect ratio, count, language.
• 内容钩子: target reader, core tension, click promise.
• 视觉策略: attention mechanic, style pack, subject/reference use, title safe area.
• 封面文案确认: exact text that may appear on the image.

Use this table for one cover or variants:

| 图 | 角色 | 吸睛机制 | 画面策略 | 图片文字（待确认） |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | primary_cover | oversized_headline + human_gaze | ... | `主标题`<br>`副标题` |

End normal Phase 1 with:

你确认或改完这些封面文字、张数和画面方向后，我再开始生成。

Do not ask for confirmation when the runtime context explicitly says noSecondConfirmation: true, backgroundExecution: true, or mustNotAskForConfirmation: true. In that case, do the same planning internally, self-critique, then generate.

Generation Contract

For one cover, call image.generate with a single compiledPrompt or prompt.

For multiple distinct cover variants, call image.generate once with imagePlanItems; each item must have its own compiledPrompt.

Payload requirements:

• prompt: overall cover brief or the single final prompt.
• compiledPrompt: required for a single cover when the prompt is already final.
• count: number of covers or variants.
• aspectRatio: required. Use the routed platform ratio.
• quality: use current app default unless the user asks for high quality.
• referenceImages: include only relevant references.
• planConfirmed: true after user confirmation, or when explicit runtime context allows no second confirmation.
• imagePlanItems: use for variant sets; title is internal only.

Never put planning labels, image numbers, role names, table headers, or hidden reasoning in visible text.

Post-Generation QA

Check:

• confirmed text only; no extra text or pseudo text
• headline readable at mobile feed size
• cover has a strong first-glance hook
• subject identity preserved when references require it
• product/person absence is intentional, not accidental
• image does not look like a generic stock poster or marketplace product card unless requested

Output a compact QA table:

| 图 | QA | 建议 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 通过 / 需复核：... | 保留 / 建议重跑 |

Then ask which image numbers to rerun, if any.