# image-first-grid-layout

Directs coding agents to build layout grids around full-bleed photography with subtle guide rails and low-contrast overlays. Great for cinematic landing pages.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1400 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/image-first-grid-layout/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/image-first-grid-layout

## What it does

This skill guides your coding agent to treat full-bleed photography as the foundational stage of a layout. Instead of stacking standard opaque cards, the page anchors around an expansive background media layer. Dark gradient washes and directional vignettes keep headlines readable without muting the imagery.

Structure comes from visible architectural details. The agent adds faint vertical guide rails, center guides, and delicate corner markers directly over the media plane. Content sits inside semi-transparent or low-fill containers anchored near the bottom or along specific grid columns.

The visual rules explicitly reject heavy solid containers and centered generic SaaS cards. If your interface requires dense data tables or multiple competing forms, this layout direction will break down quickly.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill image-first-grid-layout -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill image-first-grid-layout -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill image-first-grid-layout -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills image-first-grid-layout
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/image-first-grid-layout/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill image-first-grid-layout -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/web-design/image-first-grid-layout
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill image-first-grid-layout -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/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/image-first-grid-layout/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a full-bleed hero layout centered on expansive photography
- draw subtle grid guide rails and corner markers across background media
- apply dark gradient washes to maintain typography legibility over photos
- position headlines and supporting metrics in semi-transparent anchored cards

## Example prompts
- Build a landing page hero using image-first-grid-layout with an architectural background photo and subtle guide rails.
- Create a full-bleed media section with bottom-anchored headlines, corner markers, and a translucent metric card.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: image-first-grid-layout
description: "Create an image-led grid design system with full-bleed photography, structural guide lines, anchored content blocks, and restrained technical overlays."
---

# Image First Grid Layout Skill

## Use When
- Create an image-led grid design system with full-bleed photography, structural guide lines, anchored content blocks, and restrained technical overlays.

## Workflow

## Scope
- Apply this as a full design-system direction across hero image treatment, layout grid, overlay framing, typography, supporting cards, and motion.
- Use it when the experience should feel led by a dominant photographic or cinematic visual field, with content arranged as precise overlay blocks rather than stacked marketing sections.
- This is not a gallery layout and not plain editorial minimalism. The image should act as the stage, while the grid and content overlays give it product-grade structure.

## Visual target
- Build the page around a large immersive background image or media surface that fills most or all of the viewport.
- Add dark gradient washes, directional overlays, or tonal vignettes so text remains readable while the image still feels present and expansive.
- Use visible structural lines such as outer rails, center guides, and small corner markers to impose order on top of the image field.
- Anchor the main content low in the viewport or along a deliberate edge so the image retains dominance instead of being crowded by centered UI.
- Keep the palette restrained and image-responsive: use neutrals, whites, smoke grays, and one subtle accent derived from the image or brand when needed.

## Implementation guidance
- Prefer a full-screen or large-stage hero with the background image treated as a foundational layer, not a small card or thumbnail.
- Overlay the image with a measured grid system using vertical container lines, subtle framing guides, or a split-column scaffold that remains visible but quiet.
- Place the primary headline and CTA group in one anchored grid column, then use a secondary box for quote, proof, metric, or supporting narrative in another.
- Supporting cards should feel lightly framed and transparent or low-fill, so they sit on top of the image instead of fighting it with heavy container chrome.
- Introduce subtle technical atmosphere when useful, such as faint WebGL lines, additive streaks, slow background motion, or minimal parallax over the image plane.
- Typography should stay clean and premium: confident sans-serif headlines, soft low-contrast body copy, and restrained micro-labels or nav text.
- Motion should emphasize reveal and drift rather than busy interaction, using masked text entrances, slow line movement, and gentle hover sweeps.
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