42 Image Brief Global

What it does

When your agent uses it

• ONE static image needs a full brief for a designer
• Photographer — visual objective
• Concept and mood
• Colors and fonts read from the brand guideline

Example prompts

• “image brief”
• “banner brief”
• “thumbnail brief”
• “/42-image-brief-global”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Define the visual objective
2. 2Write the full brief
3. 3Attach references

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0360adc. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

42 Image Brief Global loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 192 tokens; SKILL.md has 650 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~192

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from minhnv0807/ai-business-skills at commit 0360adc, republished under its MIT licence (© minhnv0807). 650 words, ~2,292 tokens.

name

42-image-brief-global

description

Use when ONE static image needs a full brief for a designer or photographer — visual objective, concept and mood, composition, overlay copy, colors and fonts read from the brand guideline, per-channel dimensions, deliverables, and approval criteria. Trigger on 'image brief', 'banner brief', 'thumbnail brief', 'brief for the designer', 'how should this graphic look', 'the design came back wrong again'. Also use when the user has a post idea and needs to explain the visual. Not for — a multi-slide sequence, see `43-carousel-brief-global`; tool-level production steps in Canva or Figma, see `45-design-tool-brief-global`; generating the image with AI, see `30-design-master-global`; an urgent same-day swap, see `48-quick-visual-brief-global`.

metadata.version

1.0.1

metadata.category

content

license

MIT

triggers

image brief, visual brief, banner brief, thumbnail brief, static brief, brief for the designer, graphic brief, photo brief

output

File .md — full image brief: overview, concept and mood, composition, overlay copy, platform specs, deliverables, review process. The designer can execute…

related

product-marketing-context-global, 36-content-brief-global, 41-campaign-asset-list-global, 43-carousel-brief-global, 45-design-tool-brief-global…

# Image Brief — [Asset name]

## Overview
| Item | Detail |
|------|--------|
| Project / campaign | |
| Image type | |
| Channel / placement | |
| Dimensions (px) + ratio | |
| Visual objective | Stop the scroll / Build trust / Drive the click |
| Export format | JPG / PNG / WebP |
| Number of deliverables | |
| Designer | |
| Deadline | |
| Max revision rounds | |

## Concept and mood
- One-sentence idea: [what this image is about — readable in one pass]
- Feeling to convey: [Professional / Warm / Playful / Urgent / Minimal / Bold]
- Mood board references:
  - Ref 1: [link or file — learn: color? layout? photographic style?]
  - Ref 2: [...]
  - Ref 3: [...] — do not copy: [...]
- Colors (from the brand guideline):
  - Primary: [primary color]
  - Secondary / accent: [secondary color]
  - Background: [white / solid / gradient / photographic]
  - Text: [dark text on light ground / light text on dark ground]
- Avoid entirely: color [...], style [...], element [...]

## Composition
- Main subject: [real person / product / abstract / type-led / illustration]
- Background: [white / solid / lifestyle scene / studio / blur / texture]
- Focal point: [centered / rule of thirds left or right / full bleed]
- Clear space for text overlay: [yes/no — which corner, roughly which third]
- Visual hierarchy:
  1. [most important element — where the eye lands first]
  2. [second element]
  3. [third element — CTA / logo]

## Overlay copy (approved before it is set)
| Element | Content | Font | Size | Color | Position |
|---------|---------|------|------|-------|----------|
| Headline | | [heading font] Bold | | | |
| Subtext | | [body font] Regular | | | |
| CTA button | | [heading font] Bold | | | |
| Logo | [version: horizontal / stacked / icon only] | — | — | — | [per brand guideline] |

Copy limits: headline max [X] characters, subtext max [X] characters, no more than three text colors in one image.

## Deliverables
- [ ] Source file (share link, not a flattened export)
- [ ] Export [format] — [exact dimensions]
- [ ] Variants if needed: [light/dark version, alternate crop]
- [ ] Remaining sizes per the asset list

## Review process
- Draft 1 due: [date] — feedback within [X] hours
- Max revision rounds: [X] — final approval by: [lead]
- Final deadline: [date]

Image brief — Meta Feed 1080x1080 — TOFU, Q3 course launch
Type: single-image ad | Channel: Meta Feed | Objective: stop the scroll within 1.5 seconds
Feeling: bold, mild urgency, professional but not corporate
Subject: type-led, gradient background from [primary color] to [secondary color]
Headline: "[core message — max 60 characters]"
Subtext: "[product name + date window]"
CTA: "Enroll now"
Ref: [link to a bold type-led example — learn contrast and typography, do not copy the palette]
Deadline: [date] | Max revisions: 2

© minhnv0807, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/en/42-image-brief-global of minhnv0807/ai-business-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0360adc