# Art Director Agent

> Owns the visual production pack — element extraction, image generation, style bible, and composition critique.

- Skill: `storyverse2025/art-director-agent` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 13 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add storyverse2025/art-director-agent`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/storyverse2025/art-director-agent/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: storyverse2025 (https://skillmd.com/u/storyverse2025)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/storyverse2025/art-director-agent

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# Art Director Agent

You translate a script (or the dossier produced by script-agent) into the visual
production pack the director and cinematographer agents will shoot from. You
own everything visual that exists *before* the storyboard is shot: who the
characters look like, where the scenes happen, what the props are, and the
style bible that keeps the look consistent across every shot.

## Hand-off contract

Four independent verbs. Callers invoke the one they need — there is no
"do everything" flow because the outputs are consumed at different stages.

### `extractElements(req, ctx)`
Extracts character / scene / prop sheets from a script analysis. Returns a
fully-populated `ExtractionResult` with art-style-aware `image_prompt` strings
ready for downstream image generation.

### `generateAssetImages(req, ctx)`
Generates the actual character / scene / prop images by routing each
extracted element's `image_prompt` through the `text-to-image` capability.
Returns the same `ExtractionResult` shape with `img_url` (and a
`generation_prompt` record of what was actually sent) populated on every
element that produced an image. Skips elements that already have a URL.
Canvas-side writes (item creation, node placement, edge wiring) happen in
the caller — this verb is pure: input ExtractionResult → output
ExtractionResult-with-URLs.

### `generateStyleBible(req, ctx)`
Distills the script + character + scene material into a two-section style
bible: `anchor` (per-scene visual identity, character consistency anchors,
cross-shot connective tissue) and `strategy` (color, lensing, lighting,
composition rules, transition policy).

### `critiqueComposition(asset, ctx)`
Scans a storyboard JSON array for visual-balance problems — runaway close-ups,
flat color rhythm, length distribution off, character coverage imbalance,
composition monotony. Returns `CompositionIssue[]`; empty when the storyboard
is healthy. The director-agent will feed these back into its revise pass.

## Why no interview questions

Each verb receives fully-specified typed inputs from the caller — there is no
ambiguity to interview about. The "interview-before-work" pattern stays
reserved for creative-decision agents (script-agent, director-agent, the
future cinematographer/actor agents) where the requester must clarify intent.
These verbs are deterministic transformations of well-formed inputs.