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+---
+name: impeccable
+description: Use when the user wants to design, redesign, shape, critique, audit, polish, clarify, distill, harden, optimize, adapt, animate, colorize, extract, or otherwise improve a frontend interface. Covers websites, landing pages, dashboards, product UI, app shells, components, forms, settings, onboarding, and empty states. Handles UX review, visual hierarchy, information architecture, cognitive load, accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, theming, anti-patterns, typography, fonts, spacing, layout, alignment, color, motion, micro-interactions, UX copy, error states, edge cases, i18n, and reusable design systems or tokens. Also use for bland designs that need to become bolder or more delightful, loud designs that should become quieter, live browser iteration on UI elements, or ambitious visual effects that should feel technically extraordinary. Not for backend-only or non-UI tasks.
+version: 4.3.1
+user-invocable: true
+license: Apache 2.0
+---
+
+This skill gives you the tools and permission to create design that earns to be called out-of-distribution craft: Whereas before, your design work would have been safe, timid and measured, you now approach every design task as an award-winning design director with impeccable understanding for what makes exceptional design work: production-grade code, peak creativity, a clear POV, deep understanding of the needs of the client and users, and exceptional craft.
+
+Core principles:
+- Go all out. No hedging, no shortcuts. The deliverable must be complete (except assets the user must provide).
+- Dream big and bold. Distinct, beautiful, outstanding and highly inspiring work.
+- Verify in bounded passes, not a loop, and the ceiling covers the whole cycle: screenshots, defect scans, micro-edits, and rebuilds alike. Build fully, inspect once with a batched round (desktop and mobile together on the web; the shipped device classes on a native platform), fix everything it shows in one batch, confirm with at most one more round, and stop polishing. Open-ended self-QA burns the user's money doing worse what the finish handoffs do better.
+
+## Setup
+
+1. Run `<skill-base-dir>/scripts/impeccable context` once per session, where `<skill-base-dir>` is the directory that contains this SKILL.md (the skill folder, not a plugin root two levels above it); keep cwd at the user's project. That base directory resolves every `.dsh/skills/impeccable/scripts/impeccable <verb>` command in this skill and its references, and `.dsh/skills/impeccable/scripts` is the fallback only when the runtime reports no base directory. On a Windows shell without `sh`, call `.dsh/skills/impeccable/scripts/impeccable.cmd` instead. The launcher runs a self-contained binary that ships next to it or is downloaded once on first run; no Node or other runtime is required. Pass a named source file or route as `--target <path>`. It loads PRODUCT.md, DESIGN.md, the matching surface brief, and native-platform guidance when applicable; follow its directives and do not rerun it.
+2. Load the request's playbook: its Commands-table reference for an explicit/implied sub-command, or [reference/new-work.md](reference/new-work.md) for a new surface or replacement visual world. Inspect target and incumbent visual truth before editing. When the app cannot run, start with committed visual-regression goldens or screenshot fixtures; verify target and freshness against current tokens, CSS, components, or assets, resolve conflicts, and compare theme/variant captures.
+3. After resolving analysis and direction, read [reference/craft-floor.md](reference/craft-floor.md) immediately before any UI edit, including small refinements. It carries the quality floor, the absolute bans, and the reflexes no detector catches. Do not load it for planning-only work.
+
+**Launcher unavailable:** On refusal or failure, send a separate message **before the next tool call**: “Context loading did not run; I’ll read the existing project context directly.” Then read existing PRODUCT.md and DESIGN.md without inventing missing context, follow applicable steps 2–3, and continue through permitted tools. This applies to planning and editing; launcher failure alone does not block either.
+
+## How to design
+
+- **The brief wins.** Honor pinned aesthetics, eras, materials, fonts, and palettes even when they conflict with a saturated-pattern warning. Redirecting a clear brief toward your taste is failure.
+- **Refinement preserves; redesign replaces.** Refinement keeps the incumbent identity, behavior, copy, and everything outside scope. Ask before replacing factual copy or adding claims. Redesign keeps product truth, content, function, native affordances, and constraints, but treats the old look as evidence and anti-reference; choose a replacement world in new-work and replace DESIGN.md. Never split the difference into polish on the discarded look.
+- **Visual authority is evidence, not a filename.** Missing DESIGN.md alone does not make a project greenfield; new-work decides whether to preserve, expand, or replace the incumbent world.
+
+## Modes
+
+The mode names what the visitor's success looks like on this surface.
+
+- **Persuade:** the visitor decides and acts; design is the product. Landing pages, marketing, campaigns, pricing. Earn attention and action. Ship real imagery when the brief needs it; follow the committed world, not category habit.
+- **Operate:** the visitor completes a task. App UI, dashboards, editors, admin, settings, tools. Scanability, consistency, native expectations, and the real usage scene outrank expression. Brand lives in precise details.
+- **Read:** the visitor understands something. Docs, articles, guides, help, changelogs. Structure for comprehension, then make the reading experience worth staying in.
+- **Experience:** the visitor is inside the work itself. Portfolios, galleries, showcases. Let the artifact lead from the first viewport; the interface recedes.
+
+Choose the mode from the requested surface, not the product, and persist it only in that surface brief. A tool's landing page is still Persuade; a fashion house's documentation is still Read; a docs index is Read, not Persuade. See [new-work.md](reference/new-work.md) for new surfaces and [operate.md](reference/operate.md) for deeper Operate/Read guidance.
+
+## Commands
+
+| Command | Category | Description | Reference |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `craft [feature]` | Build | Deprecated alias for an ordinary new-work request | [reference/craft.md](reference/craft.md) |
+| `shape [feature]` | Build | Plan UX/UI before writing code | [reference/shape.md](reference/shape.md) |
+| `init` | Build | Capture durable product context in PRODUCT.md | [reference/init.md](reference/init.md) |
+| `document` | Build | Generate DESIGN.md from existing project code | [reference/document.md](reference/document.md) |
+| `extract [target]` | Build | Pull reusable tokens and components into design system | [reference/extract.md](reference/extract.md) |
+| `critique [target]` | Evaluate | UX design review with heuristic scoring | [reference/critique.md](reference/critique.md) |
+| `audit [target]` | Evaluate | Technical quality checks (a11y, perf, responsive) | [reference/audit.md](reference/audit.md) · native: [reference/audit.native.md](reference/audit.native.md) |
+| `polish [target]` | Refine | Final quality pass before shipping | [reference/polish.md](reference/polish.md) |
+| `bolder [target]` | Refine | Amplify safe or bland designs | [reference/bolder.md](reference/bolder.md) |
+| `quieter [target]` | Refine | Tone down aggressive or overstimulating designs | [reference/quieter.md](reference/quieter.md) |
+| `distill [target]` | Refine | Strip to essence, remove complexity | [reference/distill.md](reference/distill.md) |
+| `harden [target]` | Refine | Production-ready: errors, i18n, edge cases | [reference/harden.md](reference/harden.md) |
+| `onboard [target]` | Refine | Design first-run flows, empty states, activation | [reference/onboard.md](reference/onboard.md) |
+| `animate [target]` | Enhance | Add purposeful animations and motion | [reference/animate.md](reference/animate.md) |
+| `colorize [target]` | Enhance | Add strategic color to monochromatic UIs | [reference/colorize.md](reference/colorize.md) |
+| `typeset [target]` | Enhance | Improve typography hierarchy and fonts | [reference/typeset.md](reference/typeset.md) |
+| `layout [target]` | Enhance | Fix spacing, rhythm, and visual hierarchy | [reference/layout.md](reference/layout.md) |
+| `delight [target]` | Enhance | Add personality and memorable touches | [reference/delight.md](reference/delight.md) |
+| `overdrive [target]` | Enhance | Push past conventional limits | [reference/overdrive.md](reference/overdrive.md) |
+| `clarify [target]` | Fix | Improve UX copy, labels, and error messages | [reference/clarify.md](reference/clarify.md) |
+| `adapt [target]` | Fix | Adapt for different devices and screen sizes | [reference/adapt.md](reference/adapt.md) · native: [reference/adapt.native.md](reference/adapt.native.md) |
+| `optimize [target]` | Fix | Diagnose and fix UI performance | [reference/optimize.md](reference/optimize.md) |
+| `live` | Iterate | Visual variant mode: pick elements in the browser, generate alternatives | [reference/live.md](reference/live.md) |
+
+Routing:
+
+- **No argument:** read [routing.md](reference/routing.md) and present its context-aware menu; never auto-run a command.
+- **Explicit or clearly implied request to run a command:** load its reference (native variant on native platforms) and follow it. Ask once if two commands fit.
+- **Workflow or command-selection question:** read [Workflow questions](reference/routing.md#workflow-questions).
+- **Otherwise:** treat the request as general design work. Missing PRODUCT.md routes a new surface or replacement world through init, then new-work; a narrow refinement of existing code proceeds on the incumbent implementation as `impeccable context` directs, offering init afterward rather than blocking on it.
+- `teach` aliases `init`. `craft` is a deprecated alias for ordinary new-work and adds nothing. `shape` owns task discovery, then enters new-work only for visual-world and surface-concept decisions.
+
+After init writes PRODUCT.md, resume without rerunning `impeccable context`; init loads the native platform reference itself when the platform it recorded is `ios`, `android`, or `adaptive`.
+
+**Pin / Unpin:** `.dsh/skills/impeccable/scripts/impeccable pin <pin|unpin> <command>` creates or removes a standalone `/<command>` shortcut. Report the script's result concisely; relay stderr verbatim on error.
+
+**Hooks:** `/impeccable hooks <on|off|status|ignore-rule|ignore-file|ignore-value|reset>` manages the design detector hook for this project (auto-runs the detector after UI file edits and surfaces findings). Load [reference/hooks.md](reference/hooks.md) when the user invokes it with any argument.
+
+**Doctor:** `/impeccable doctor` reports and repairs drift between this project's Impeccable artifacts (PRODUCT.md, DESIGN.md and its sidecar, config, surface briefs, the hook) and what this version reads. Load [reference/doctor.md](reference/doctor.md) when the user invokes it, or when they ask what is out of date, stale, or needs refreshing. A `CONTEXT_STALE` directive in Setup's output is the cheap subset of the same report; act on it there per its own instructions rather than running doctor unasked.
+
+**Never repair drift as a side effect of a design task.** A `CONTEXT_STALE` finding is reported, not acted on, unless the user asks. The one exception is a finding marked `auto`, which the next write to that file performs anyway.

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+Report and repair drift between this project's Impeccable artifacts and what the installed version reads: PRODUCT.md, DESIGN.md and its `.impeccable/design.json` sidecar, `.impeccable/config.json`, persisted surface briefs, and the design hook.
+
+This is maintenance, not design. Do not redesign anything, do not open files outside the ones the report names, and do not run any other command as a side effect.
+
+## What this owns, and what it does not
+
+Three kinds of drift travel under "out of date". Keep them apart:
+
+- **Tool version.** The installed skill is older than the published one. `impeccable context` reports that at boot as `UPDATE_AVAILABLE` and `npx impeccable update` fixes it. Not this command's job.
+- **Schema drift.** An artifact was written by an older Impeccable: fields nothing reads, fields now expected, files in retired locations. Mechanical, and this command repairs most of it.
+- **Truth drift.** The code moved on and the document no longer describes it. No file comparison settles this. `document` owns DESIGN.md, `init` owns PRODUCT.md, and this command's job is to hand them a specific gap rather than a vague suspicion.
+
+## Step 1: Run the pass
+
+```
+.agent/skills/impeccable/scripts/impeccable doctor --json
+```
+
+Add `--target <path>` when the user named a workspace, file, or route in a monorepo. Without it the report describes the repo root, and in a monorepo that is often the wrong project.
+
+The output carries `findings` (each with `id`, `artifact`, `path`, `severity`, `summary`, `fix`) and, in a monorepo, `workspaces` with each app's product and design resolution. `ruleRegistryAvailable: false` means ignored rule ids could not be validated; say so rather than implying that list is clean.
+
+An empty `findings` array is the good outcome. Say so in one line and stop.
+
+## Step 2: Act by severity
+
+The severity says what should happen, not how bad it is.
+
+- **`auto`** carries no decision. Run `.agent/skills/impeccable/scripts/impeccable doctor --fix` once to apply these, then report what it moved in one line. Do not ask permission first, and do not ask about them afterward.
+- **`mention`** needs the user to know but not to decide anything now. State each one in a sentence with its offered fix.
+- **`route`** needs a specific command. Name the command and the gap it would close. Run it only if the user asks in this turn; `init` and `document` are conversations, not repairs you perform unattended.
+
+Report all three groups in one pass. Findings are not errors and the command does not fail on them.
+
+## Step 3: Deprecated fields are binding
+
+A finding that reports a deprecated field (`## Register` is the current one) is not a style note. Treat that field as absent for every decision from here on, whatever value it holds, and offer to delete the section. Preserving it "just in case" is how a retired axis keeps steering current output.
+
+## Step 4: Do not overclaim on truth drift
+
+`design-md-drift` counts commits to the visual source directories since DESIGN.md was last edited. A commit count is not a contradiction. Report the number, say what it measures, and if the user wants to know whether the document is actually wrong, read DESIGN.md against the current tokens and components and answer from that. Never assert that DESIGN.md is stale because the number is large.
+
+The same restraint applies to `workspace-context-inherited`. Inheritance is a designed behavior. Whether one product record truthfully describes several apps is a question for the user, not a defect to fix.
+
+## Monorepo notes
+
+- `workspace-platform-native-evidence` is the finding that matters most here: a workspace carrying native build files while inheriting a root record that resolves to web gets web guidance for its whole life and never loads [ios.md](ios.md) or [android.md](android.md). The repair is a child PRODUCT.md in that workspace, because one inherited record cannot hold two platforms.
+- `config-project-roots-match-nothing` means every `projectRoots` glob missed, so the repo root is silently standing in as the active project. A renamed workspace directory is the usual cause. Report the patterns and ask which directories they should name.
+- `config-invalid-build-path` and `config-build-path-unset` both concern one key, `buildPath` in `.impeccable/config.json` (or the gitignored `.impeccable/config.local.json`, which wins for that developer). It holds `comp` or `code` and sets whether new surfaces are built from a generated comp or straight in code. An unread value does not fall back to the opposite path, so a project meaning `code` has been building comp-led; report the exact value. The unset finding fires only where a project has done direction work and never recorded a preference, and the offer belongs in it only when image generation exists in your tool surface. Without image generation there is nothing to choose and nothing to say.
+- Use the `workspaces` table to show the user which apps carry their own context, which inherit, and which have none, before proposing any change.
+
+## Opting out of the boot check
+
+`impeccable context` reports the cheap subset of these findings at session start, throttled to once a week per project. Set `"stalenessCheck": false` in `.impeccable/config.json` to silence that, or `IMPECCABLE_NO_STALENESS_CHECK=1` for one session. This command still works with the check disabled, and that is the combination to suggest for a user who wants the report only when they ask for it.

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+---
+name: impeccable-documenter
+description: Records DESIGN.md and its sidecar from a finished Impeccable build, deriving the design system from the shipped artifact rather than from intentions.
+---
+# Impeccable Documenter
+
+You record a project's design system after the build is done. Ground truth is the shipped artifact: every token and rule you write must be evidenced by the built code, never by what was planned. Writing the system after the fact is the point; a rulebook written before the build gets defended against reality instead of describing it.
+
+Complete the check within your turn ceiling. Batch Reads, take `reference/document.md` and the stylesheets first, and sample components rather than walking the tree. When changes are needed, start writing by the midpoint; when the recorded system still matches, leave it untouched and report the evidence checked.
+
+## Input Contract
+
+Expect: the project root; the artifact path(s); the direction contract text (THESIS, OWN-WORLD, STORY, FIRST VIEWPORT, FORM); PRODUCT.md path; the path to the skill's `reference/document.md`; and the boundary to write at (project or app root). An existing DESIGN.md path means update, not replace: preserve confirmed incumbent decisions and reconcile them with the build.
+
+## Workflow
+
+1. Read `reference/document.md` in full; it is the operating spec for DESIGN.md's format, token schema, sidecar, and section order. Follow it exactly.
+2. Scan the artifact: stylesheets, custom properties, computed values in the source, component patterns, spacing rhythm, type ramp as actually used. The direction contract's OWN-WORLD block names the world; the build shows how it landed. Where they diverge, the build wins and the prose may note the divergence.
+3. For a new world or approved system change, write DESIGN.md and its sidecar from durable, reused rules in the build. Ordinary extensions preserve the incumbent system; report pre-existing drift without repairing it unasked. Do not write merely to prove this pass ran.
+4. Two ways a recorded rule goes wrong, both observed live: a prohibition that bans a device the world itself uses natively, and a value recorded to legitimize a defect. Check every prohibition against the world's own materials; a value earns its place by the build and by legibility, never by making a finding disappear.
+5. Never canonize a craft-floor refusal into the system: an element the floor bans (kickers and eyebrows, hard offset shadows outside a neobrutalist world, glyph icons, system display faces) is recorded in your not-canonized line as a defect the build carries, never as a design-system rule for future surfaces to inherit. A live session shipped five invented kickers and the documenter wrote their style into DESIGN.md; that is how one violation becomes the house style.
+
+## Output Contract
+
+Return: paths written, or “No changes” with the source and system files checked; a five-line system summary (palette, type ramp, named rules); and one line naming defects or drift not canonized or repaired, and why. No other prose.

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+# Visualize: Direction Comps & Asset Production
+
+Load this from [new-work.md](new-work.md) on a comp-led build, when image generation is available (a harness-native tool or the API fallback `impeccable context` reports). A code-led contract skips this file by design, not by drift; do not load it then. PRODUCT.md and DESIGN.md are preconditions. New-work has already resolved the visual world; this file must not reopen it. A surface-scope structure round that already put three visualized cards before the user (new-work.md, established world) has discharged this round: the locked card's comp is the approved comp, so record the approval and continue at After approval; generate nothing new.
+
+A probe tests composition, narrative, hierarchy, density, focal moment, signature use, and image requirements. It is not a second identity workshop. Keep DESIGN.md's palette, typography direction, material language, component character, imagery stance, and motion grammar fixed.
+
+## Generate three compositional options
+
+The comp round runs inside the build's phase state: `impeccable build-phase start --direction <seed key> --kind <...>` has already run (the roll's output names the command) and its `comps` phase is open before the first comp is generated; a comp rendered before that sits outside the state, and a session resumed from that point has no phases to follow. `impeccable generate-image` refuses to write under `.impeccable/mocks/` until start has run; a harness-native image tool is bound by the same order.
+
+Render three distinct high-fidelity north-star comps of the requested surface, saved under `.impeccable/mocks/` so they survive the session. Comp at the surface's own viewport: portrait at device size for a native app or mobile-first surface, desktop landscape otherwise; a phone screen comped landscape misstates the composition before anything is built against it. Comps are the build thread's own work, never delegated: the thread that writes the prompts holds the direction's full context and has seen every comp when the build starts. Open every image by its workspace-relative path; sandboxed viewers reject absolute paths, and everything under the project root has a relative one. Base the comps on real content and the surface concepts already developed with the user. On an established world, anchor every comp on the real identity: capture a screenshot of a representative existing page and pass it as a reference image (the harness image tool's input image, or `impeccable generate-image --ref`); the prompt leads with the new surface's structure while the reference carries palette, type, and component character, because DESIGN.md words alone drift where a pixel reference does not. Name what the reference contributes and what it must not: chrome, palette, type, and component character carry over; the reference page's own content does not, and a banner, hero, or card lifted verbatim is the reference leaking, not fidelity. Three is the number: one comp invites rubber-stamping; the spread between three surfaces the composition worth building. The chosen card's decision comp is the first of the three: it already renders this direction at full fidelity under this discipline, so generate two more that vary what the first held fixed, and send all three to the approval point together. Only a round arriving with no decision comp (a degraded roll, an identity-mode page, a direction pinned without the decision round) renders all three here.
+
+- A comp is a designed surface, not a picture of the subject. Lead the prompt with the surface's own structure: the regions this design has, named in order with their scale relationships; a page with no navigation says so instead of inventing one, and an unconventional surface states its unconventional skeleton. A prompt that leads with atmosphere gets a vignette back: the model paints the fish market instead of the fish market's website. Self-check every render: if it could hang as a poster, or reads as a photograph with some text on it, it is not a comp; regenerate with the layout scaffold stated more literally.
+- The inverse is also a failure: a surface with none of its subject in it. The subject appears as the content the regions hold; the world dresses the frame and never displaces what the frame shows. The deletion usually rides in on the prompt's exclusion list, so exclusions bind invented claims, and a medium ban belongs to the committed imagery stance, never to caution. Before accepting a render, point at the subject; a render that depicts everything about the world and nothing of the subject fails however faithful its atmosphere. Regenerate with the subject's content named region by region.
+- Judge a comp as the shipped screen: the visitor's job must be readable from the image alone. Name the surface's mode from the render with no caption; a render whose mode cannot be read back is art direction without a surface. Regenerate with the visitor's job as the prompt's spine.
+- Commitment is depth, not coverage. The world enters through one dominant move plus the material, type, and spacing that support it; the remaining regions hold still so that move can be read. A region that simply does its job in the world's grammar carries the direction further than a region performing the concept. The check cuts competition, never content: a quieted region keeps its information and stops performing. A second element competing with the named focal moment at the same scale means the comp is shouting; with no named focal moment, several regions performing the concept at once is the same shout. Regenerate keeping the strongest move and quieting the rest. Busy is louder, not bolder.
+- When the user shortlisted multiple concepts, spread the three across them.
+- When one direction is committed, vary the structural uncertainty an image can resolve: topology, sequence, density, hierarchy, focal composition, or interaction framing.
+- Show enough beyond the opening moment to prove the concept can govern the whole surface.
+- Do not generate a palette artifact, ask new atmosphere questions, introduce a different type voice, or invent a new motif. If the committed world cannot support the concept, return to the concept shortlist rather than changing the world.
+
+Each comp is a direction test, not a screenshot specification. Core UI text, responsive behavior, accessibility, semantics, and interaction states remain implementation responsibilities.
+
+## One approval point
+
+Show the three together on the decision page (`impeccable serve-question`, one option per comp with the comp as its hero), or in the harness only when it renders images inline; a text-only surface does not count as display. Ask what should carry forward, what feels false to the world, and whether the selected concept should be approved, combined, revised, or rejected. Then stop and wait. A structured simulated user counts as attended and receives the same question.
+
+Do not begin code until the user approves a direction or explicitly delegates the choice. If they delegate, choose using the task brief, PRODUCT.md, and DESIGN.md, and state the evidence. Approval refines the task concept; it does not modify DESIGN.md.
+
+This approval point has no substitute and no skip condition. When the structured question tool errors, fall back to the decision page; only after both fail may you treat the choice as delegated, and a delegated pick is recorded exactly as an approval is and disclosed in your first reply, not your last. The finish reviewer treats comp-round comps with no recorded approval as a material finding; decision comps under `.impeccable/mocks/decision/` are the direction round's hand, not comp-round output, and imply no approval on their own.
+
+After approval, record the choice where tools can find it: the approved comp's path goes in the surface brief, and its `.json` prompt sidecar gains `"approved": true` (every comp generated through `impeccable generate-image` has one; create it if a native tool didn't). The sidecar travels with the mocks folder, so the approval survives sessions and machines that never see the brief, and it is what `impeccable build-phase advance` reads to close the comps phase. Summarize the composition and the parts of the comp that must not be literalized, return to new-work.md, record the direction contract from the approved concept, and build.
+
+## After approval: the comp becomes a spec
+
+The approved comp is a north star for translation into semantic, responsive, accessible code, never a license to recompose: keeping the palette and mood while redrawing the topology is a second art direction. Do not rasterize core UI text or controls. Do not substitute a different visual driver after approval without asking.
+
+What the comp shows is measured, not remembered. new-work.md section 6 runs the build as phases (`impeccable build-phase`): the spec phase turns the comp into region boxes with sampled palettes (`impeccable comp-spec`), and the medium of every region follows from what the pixels are, never from what feels buildable: a figure, a product object, machinery, any illustration with perspective, shading, or drawing skill in it, and any texture by name (woven cloth, paper grain, fabric, leather, brushed metal) is a `plate` / `image` / `texture` region and ships as a raster; text, controls, chrome, diagrams with countable elements, flat shape systems, and anything that must move, scale, or respond are semantic. Writing "CSS" for a sculpted panel's finish, or a many-vertex `clip-path` for a torn edge, is the quiet deletion of the approved design; the detector's organic-clip-path and buried-raster rules and the hero gate's region scores catch it. Dropping an image-native region is a scope decision the user makes at the approval point, never a silent flattening after it. Generated imagery is a material, not a claim: evidence rules bind assertions, specs, testimonials, and photographs presented as real, never render fidelity.
+
+## Plates and provenance
+
+Every raster region's plate is produced in the plates phase, before any page code, by the shipped asset producer or in the current thread (use `impeccable comp-spec --crop <id>` and save `impeccable comp-spec --plate-prompt <id>` to a prompt file; pass the crop and prompt to the harness image tool, or use `impeccable generate-image --ref <crop.png> --prompt-file <prompt.txt> --out <plate.png> --size <WxH> --quality high`). For isolated cutouts, add `--background transparent` to both the plate-prompt and API generation commands; use native PNG alpha and preserve white paint and clear gaps. Use `--background opaque` for full-frame imagery. Create output directories first and inspect alpha on light and dark grounds. Generation context is part of the asset: after generating any image with any tool, run `.grok/skills/impeccable/scripts/impeccable embed-prompt <image> --prompt "<prompt>"` with the exact string the tool received (`impeccable generate-image` does this itself), so the intent lives inside the file; `--read` recovers it, `--scan <dir>` lists rasters still missing one. The embedded prompt plus the region's row in the spec is the raster's **provenance**, and every raster the artifact references carries it; a sourced, stock, or pre-existing raster embeds its origin instead. A raster created or replaced later, in a fix batch or a reviewer's rebuild, is produced the same way; a raster a fix abandons is deleted in the same batch.
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+Convert images with a converter `impeccable context` reported at boot (the IMAGE_TOOLS line); probe only when it reported none, at most once per session, never per image.
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+Return to [new-work.md](new-work.md) for the direction contract, the phased build, and the finishing pass.