postplusai Image Generation
Use When
- The desired final asset is an image or image batch.
- The request may include text prompts, uploaded images, previous outputs, product URLs, research handoffs, product images, persona images, banners, thumbnails, storyboard panels, or batch variants.
- The next decision is task class, model/reference policy, and runner handoff.
Do Not Use When
- The final asset is video, audio, subtitles, transcripts, or an edit plan.
- The image request is already normalized and ready to execute. Use
image-batch-runner. - The user needs hook or benchmark decoding first. Use
reference-decode.
Core Boundary
This is the image generation controller. It does not submit jobs.
It must:
- identify the input type,
- classify the image task,
- select model and reference rules,
- create the handoff for
image-batch-runner.
Task Classes
| Task class | Typical input | Handoff |
|---|---|---|
text_to_image |
prompt only | write normalized image brief for image-batch-runner |
image_edit |
uploaded image plus change request | bind edit image and preserve/alter rules |
reference_image |
benchmark frame or style board | state its intended influence in the runner handoff |
product_image |
product photo, URL, or product facts | bind product identity and forbid invented claims |
banner_thumbnail |
offer, hook, platform | require aspect ratio and text/UI policy |
storyboard_image |
panel plan or board spec | hand storyboard panels to image-batch-runner |
batch_variant |
many variants or personas | preserve shared rules and vary only declared fields |
Model And Reference Rules
- Text-only drafts may use a text-to-image endpoint.
- Edits require a bound source image and an edit-capable endpoint.
- Persona, product, and brand identity are
bindingreferences unless the user explicitly marks them inspiration-only. - Benchmark clips, mood boards, and competitor references are inspiration-only unless the contract says otherwise.
- Excluded references must not enter the runner request.
Routing Table
| If not image-generation | Send to |
|---|---|
| Needs media understanding first | media-router |
| Needs reference meaning decoded | reference-decode |
| Needs storyboard panels | storyboard-grid-writer |
| Needs execution with normalized request | image-batch-runner |
| Final output is video | video-batch-runner |
| Final output is audio | audio-generation |
Output Shape
Return:
taskClassinputTypemodelRulereferencePolicyrequiredRunnerInputshandoffSkillmustNotDo
Stop Conditions
- Stop when required user intent, source evidence, or owned input artifacts are missing and guessing would change the result.
- Do not let
image-batch-runnermake creative classification decisions. - If an owned CLI or script command fails, report the exact error and stop. Do not bypass the failure with metadata-only answers, readiness probing, local payload rewrites, fallback providers, or unpublished tools.
Public Command Boundary
- Choose the smallest matching command or workflow from the user input and run it directly.
- If an owned CLI or script command fails, report the exact error and stop. Do not bypass the failure with metadata-only answers, readiness probing, local payload rewrites, fallback providers, or unpublished tools.
- This public skill is instruction-driven. Produce the controller handoff artifact directly from the available evidence.
- Do not call private provider/runtime paths or unpublished local tools.
- If the CLI returns a quote-confirmation challenge, run
postplus quote confirm --json --challenge-file <challenge.json>and retry with the returned token.