# Mascot Candidate Renderer

> Render three distinct complete mascot IP candidates from internal art-direction records, or regenerate only one affected candidate after holistic revision.

- Skill: `yang0/mascot-candidate-renderer` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yang0/mascot-candidate-renderer`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yang0/mascot-candidate-renderer/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: yang0 (https://skillmd.com/u/yang0)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yang0/mascot-candidate-renderer

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# Mascot Candidate Renderer

Render the fixed A/B/C candidate set; do not add useful-looking extras.

## Input contract

For the first pass require an intake-ready brief, three complete art-direction
records and a valid fixed `output_contract`; no user approval of text directions
is required. For a revision require the affected label, complete revised
art-direction record and valid one-item revision contract. Validate both
through the first existing helper path: `../../scripts/workflow_state.py` in the
source monorepo, or `../mascot-ip-studio/scripts/workflow_state.py` when this
node is installed as a top-level Skill.

## Render contract

1. Build prompts with the repository helper at
   `../mascot-design-director/scripts/design_director.py`.
2. Preserve subject, declared subject class, artistry plan, recognition plan, anatomy plan, scene-capability plan, silhouette, proportion, signature feature,
   memory hook, personality, palette, material and explicit keep/avoid locks.
3. Generate exactly A/B/C as three separate complete 1:1 IP images, one per
   art direction, directly after planning. During revision regenerate only the
   affected label.
4. Never make an anchor image, turnaround, three-view sheet, alternate-pose
   sheet or derivative pack. Never import such a bundle from another
   image/character Skill.
5. Each candidate has one complete uncropped full-body subject, safety margins,
   no hand-held prop, backpack, scene, text, logo, watermark or second subject.
   Its support structures and manipulation appendage must be separately visible
   and readable; equivalent non-human hands such as claws, wing-hands, fins or
   tentacles are allowed when they visibly support gripping.
   Render the canonical presentation front-primary with only a slight turn and
   an upright self-supported stance defined by the direction; do not add a human
   bipedal skeleton. Preserve one global natural-or-redesigned surface
   system; an optional tail must be singular, rooted and proportionate.
   For a non-animal subject class, do not add animal ears, muzzle, fur, tail or paws unless explicitly required by its direction.
   Do not render a human head, face, skin, hair, costume or head-torso-two-arms-two-legs body; follow the declared non-human support and manipulation topology.
6. Return paths, prompts and dimensions. Mark all images `qa_status: pending`;
   do not call them accepted or final. A/B/C selection is not a finalization
   signal; the single fixed-file delivery occurs only after explicit final
   confirmation and review.

## Failure recovery

Prompt or provider failure may retry only the same A/B/C candidate. Hand all
images to `mascot-delivery-review`.