ip-as-logo – Design & UI skill for AI agents

IP as Logo

Create the simplest possible cute IP character: a compact, lovable symbol that remains recognizable at 32 × 32, not a detailed character illustration.

Workflow

1. Parse the request for an explicit IP subject and available product context. Do not ask the user to choose a color mode unless they explicitly want to control it.

2. When the user has not specified an IP subject and the current workspace is a product repository, inspect relevant read-only context before asking questions. Prefer the README, product docs, package or app metadata, landing-page copy, manifests, and design tokens. Treat context as sufficient when the product purpose, primary audience, and intended personality can be inferred with reasonable confidence.

3. When product context is insufficient, ask one consolidated round of background questions covering what the product does, who it serves, and how it should feel. Do not start a second background questionnaire. Continue with the best supported interpretation after the answer.

4. Once context is sufficient, always present three concise directions before generation and explicitly propose generating six independent candidates in one batch. Do not generate until the user agrees, unless the current request already explicitly authorizes six outputs or asks the agent to proceed without another confirmation.

5. Choose the three proposed directions deliberately:

• When the user explicitly specifies an IP subject, keep that subject and propose three distinct design treatments based on silhouette treatment, secondary color region, defining feature, or personality emphasis.
• When the user does not specify an IP subject, propose three genuinely different IP subjects or metaphors. Tie each one to a different product attribute or brand promise; do not return three arbitrary animals with no rationale.

6. Interpret the user's response exactly:

• If the user accepts all three directions and the six-image proposal, generate two independent variants per direction and label them A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2. Assign A1, B1, and C1 to the lower-left and A2, B2, and C2 to the lower-right so every direction is tested once from each side.
• If the user selects one direction but accepts six images, generate six controlled variants of that direction and label them A1 through A6. Assign odd-numbered variants to the lower-left and even-numbered variants to the lower-right.
• If the user rejects the proposed quantity, directions, or distribution, follow the user's replacement instructions without arguing for the default.
• For any other even default batch size, split candidates equally between lower-left and lower-right. For an odd batch, assign the extra candidate to either side deliberately and record the imbalance. Do not use bottom-center unless the user explicitly requests it.

7. Default every candidate to exactly three semantic colors in the complete image: exactly two IP base colors plus exactly one background color. Reuse the two IP colors for facial marks rather than introducing additional semantic colors. Follow an explicit user request for another color count. Keep required product cues, identifying features, complexity limits, and any supplied palette consistent enough for useful comparison.

8. Before generation, require a top-tier image model: prefer GPT Image 2; also support Seedance 5.0 Pro, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini Image Pro), or Nano Banana 2 (Gemini Image Flash). If none is available, ask the user to enable a suitable tool or provide its API key. Never fall back to SVG generation. Use another available image model only with the user's explicit consent, and warn that its quality may not match the recommended models. Do not fabricate generated results.

9. If the runtime supports subagents, parallelize the six independent candidates up to the available concurrency. Give every subagent the same product brief, shared constraints, and one assigned direction or variant; run remaining candidates in subsequent waves when capacity is limited. If subagents are unavailable, generate the candidates through separate image-generation calls or jobs.

10. If the user supplies a background palette, reserve every supplied color for backgrounds unless they explicitly say otherwise. Choose exactly two IP base colors independently for the subject and context unless the user also assigns subject colors. Do not treat any historical or example palette as a closed list of allowed backgrounds.

11. Abstract each subject using the complexity budget below. Generate every candidate as a separate full-resolution square asset; never ask an image model to compose a contact sheet, grid, or multi-image sheet. Do not use previous candidates as image references when testing prompt-only reproducibility.

12. Treat each batch as a one-pass creative draw. Generate every requested candidate once, then preserve and deliver every returned result as-is. Do not inspect outputs to block delivery, classify them as recommended or non-recommended, retry them automatically, or repair them with post-processing.

13. Preserve and label every generated result. Report every label, IP direction and rationale, assigned corner, saved path, prompt/color mapping, and dimensions. Present all results together; generate refinements or replacements only when the user explicitly asks for another draw.

When proposing directions before generation, describe each in one compact line: <IP subject> — <product connection> — <defining silhouette>. End with a direct proposal to generate six images using the distribution above. Do not turn the discovery phase into a long branding workshop unless the user asks for one.

Complexity budget

• Build one dominant continuous outer silhouette from roughly 4–7 large basic geometric shapes. Merge or delete any shape that does not carry identity, expression, or recognition.
• Use at most one species-defining feature: for example, one large pouch beak, one pair of curled horns, or one broad visor.
• Use at most two broad internal color regions corresponding to the two IP base colors. Keep the face to two eyes and, only when needed for the expression, one tiny mouth. Omit eyebrows, highlights, nostrils, texture, outlines, and decorative marks unless essential for recognition.
• Remove repeated feathers, scales, fur tufts, armor plates, buttons, screws, numbers, labels, and other illustrative detail.
• Make simplification, cuteness, and an endearing baby-like personality the decisive qualities. Favor a large head, compact proportions, soft cheeks, widely spaced simple eyes, and a calm friendly expression when appropriate to the subject.
• Require a readable black silhouette and recognizability at 32 × 32. If a feature disappears or becomes noise at that size, enlarge, merge, or remove it.

Shape language and composition

• Use thick, rounded, weighty contours and broad color masses.
• Forbid sharp corners, pointed ears or beaks, needle-like tails, thin antennae, thin smiles, narrow gaps, and acute flame or feather tips. Replace every necessary tip with a visibly blunt rounded end.
• Show both members of paired identifying features, such as ears, horns, wings, gills, or bells.
• Show the character upright and emerging from the assigned lower-left or lower-right corner, filling about 85–95% of the canvas so the IP remains visually dominant.
• Cropping at the bottom or assigned side is welcome when it strengthens the sense of emerging from that corner, but do not prescribe exact edge contact or a fixed crop.
• Never center or bottom-center the character unless the user explicitly requests it.
• Preserve both members of paired identifying features within the visible composition.
• Keep the artwork upright; never rotate the canvas or tilt the main mark without an explicit request.

Simplicity and visual treatment

• Start from large, clean semantic shapes and the strongest possible simple silhouette. The character should be understood immediately, before any internal feature is noticed.
• Prefer fewer, larger, softer forms over extra definition. Do not add a feature merely to explain anatomy or material.
• Keep facial marks tiny, simple, and subordinate. Do not add glossy hotspots or detailed cavity rendering to eyes, mouths, noses, or other small features.
• Keep the named background color visually solid and uniform, without scenery, texture, halo, vignette, or lighting variation.
• Ask for the subtle dimensional effect only with the single sentence used in the Prompt skeleton. Do not expand it into numerical strength or instructions for gradients, highlights, or shadows. Incidental gradients, shading, or mild dimensionality returned by the generator are acceptable and must not trigger filtering or retrying.
• Keep the requested visual direction graphic and simple rather than asking for clay, inflatable, plastic, plush, toy-like, or photorealistic rendering.

Color and canvas

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