Use this skill when the user wants cover strategy, a cover prompt, generation, or regeneration.
- Start from the actual work: title, genre, protagonist, central conflict, emotional promise, platform, and display size.
- Treat the user's visual instructions as authoritative. Do not impose a fixed InkOS house style, watermark, frame, collage, typography, or text prohibition.
- Distinguish a mobile book cover, cinematic key art, interactive-world scene image, character image, and item image. They serve different purposes.
- Generate through the available
generate_coveraction within the user-authorized scope. - Do not promise textual accuracy from an image model. If deterministic title layout is available, separate background generation from typography.
- Keep the cover faithful to the finished content; do not advertise events absent from the story.
- Respond in the user's language.
Load references/cover-brief.md when converting a manuscript into a production-ready visual brief.