# auteur

A skill that designs and builds web experiences from scratch: landing pages, cinematic scroll-directed sites, and multi-screen products in one style.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1039
- Author: agiwhitelist
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/agiwhitelist/auteur/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-06
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/auteur

## What it does

Auteur works like a film director: script first, then assets, then the shoot, then the cut. It has three registers — `build` for an excellent conventional site, `direct` for a cinematic scroll-directed page, and `system` for a product spanning several screens (app, dashboard, admin, onboarding, docs) that must feel like one thing. Art direction is committed in writing before any markup: one hue, one type system, a motion budget, and named anti-references.

Assets come from local CLIs — images, video frames, depth maps, 3D. The build follows proven recipes: one WebGL context, motion through `transform` and `opacity`, scroll state machines. Before shipping, three gates run: `slopscan` fails the build on concrete slop patterns, `motionqa` fails it on dropped frames, `systemscan` fails it on cross-route drift.

Recon and sourcing scripts read live pages: awwwards, image search, Poly Haven, Iconify, Google Fonts, Openverse, Coverr. Fetched content is treated as reference data and licence metadata, never executed, and no credentials or logins are involved. Skip phases 0–1 entirely if you don't want outbound requests; every other phase works offline. It is not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiwhitelist/auteur --skill auteur -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/auteur/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/auteur/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiwhitelist/auteur --skill auteur -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/auteur/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiwhitelist/auteur --skill auteur -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/auteur/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install agiwhitelist/auteur auteur
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/auteur/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiwhitelist/auteur --skill auteur -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/agiwhitelist/auteur
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/auteur/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiwhitelist/auteur --skill auteur -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/agiwhitelist/auteur/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a landing or promo page that doesn't look generic
- make a scroll-driven storytelling page with animation
- unify an app, dashboard and onboarding under one design system
- generate images, video frames and depth maps locally
- catch template clichés and dropped frames before shipping

## Example prompts
- /auteur build landing page for a SaaS analytics tool
- /auteur direct promo page with scroll animation
- /auteur system design system for dashboard, settings and onboarding

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: auteur
description: Design and build complete web experiences from scratch — award-level product and marketing pages, cinematic scroll-directed sites where the page is directed like a film, and multi-screen products (app, dashboard, admin, settings, onboarding, docs site) built as one design system with every component, state and route in one style. Use whenever the user wants to create or redesign a landing page, website, hero section, portfolio, promo or product page; wants scroll animations, storytelling pages, or a site that feels like a movie; or says "make it beautiful", "make it wow", "cinematic", or "design system" — even if they name no technique. Generates its own assets via local CLIs (images, video frames, depth maps, 3D), and gates every ship with an executable anti-slop linter and a screenshot verification loop. Not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work.
version: 1.3.1
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "[build|direct|system|edit|audit|recon] <brief or target>"
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(node scripts/*)
  - Bash(npx playwright *)
  - Bash(agy *)
  - Bash(codex *)
  - Bash(grok *)
  - Bash(ffmpeg *)
---

Auteur designs and builds web experiences the way a film director makes a film: script first, then assets, then the shoot, then the cut. It has three registers — **build** (an excellent conventional site), **direct** (a cinematic scroll-directed site) and **system** (a multi-screen product as one design system) — on one shared core of taste. Nothing ships until the page passes an executable anti-slop gate and the skill has looked at its own output.

### Use this when

- A landing page, marketing site, hero section, portfolio or product page has to be **built or redesigned** — and looking generic is not acceptable.
- The brief asks for **scroll animation, storytelling, or a site that feels like a film**.
- A product spans **several screens that must feel like one thing** — app, dashboard, admin, onboarding, docs.
- Someone says *make it beautiful*, *make it wow*, *cinematic*, or *design system*, naming no technique.

Not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work.

### What it actually does

1. Commits the art direction **in writing before any markup** — one hue, one type system, a motion budget, named anti-references.
2. Generates or sources the assets: local image/video CLIs, Blender, depth maps, CC0 meshes and HDRIs with their licences recorded.
3. Builds from proven recipes — one WebGL context, transform/opacity motion, scroll state machines.
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