canon
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Generate visual points of view and unexpected design languages from a product\u2019s tensions and meaning. Use for creative direction, not an upstream certificate required by other lenses.
9 other projects use a version of this.
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- simota/agent-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 23, 2026
- gfrancodev/canontheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- L1veSong/Canon-Mnemonic-Guardtheir own version, first seen Oct 19, 2026
- bigmistqke/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
- KodingDev/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 2, 2026
- marcosdocanto/canontheir own version, first seen Oct 2, 2026
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- simota/agent-skills★ 96same name
- bestdeejay-design/agent-skills★ 6same name
- stevehansen/eidet★ 4same name
- KodingDev/skills★ 2same name
- L1veSong/Canon-Mnemonic-Guard★ 2same name
- bestdeejay-design/chronos★ 1same name
- gfrancodev/canon★ 1same name
- marcosdocanto/canon★ 1same name
- bigmistqke/skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 6 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 50
Read selectively when a thread needs another perspective or a concrete technique.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 6 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Copyright 2026 IamK77 — Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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Generate visual points of view and unexpected design languages from a product’s tensions and meaning. Use for creative direction, not an upstream certificate required by other lenses.
Starting point
A point of view is a way of making some aspect of the subject newly visible. It may emerge from a product fact, a cultural association, or a deliberate tension; it is not a slogan to manufacture on demand.
Bring a question, fragment, reference, or tension. Follow whichever association becomes useful; these invitations are not a sequence to complete. Speculation should remain distinguishable from an observed fact.
Thought experiments
Change what is foreground
Imagine the product, the person using it, and the consequence of use each taking the leading role. Sketch a different visual premise for each.
Borrow an organising culture
Try a field guide, a score, a workshop, an archive, or something less obvious. Transfer how it organises attention, not just its typography.
Contradict the obvious style
Name the expected visual treatment and make one plausible opposite. Keep it long enough to discover something, rather than rejecting it for unfamiliarity.
A possible turn
An outreach tool could celebrate effortless generation, or make careful reading visible as margin notes. That shift changes the visual subject from output volume to attention. A third direction might treat correspondence as a personal archive rather than a campaign.
Leave the space open
Offer a few genuinely different possibilities, a sketch, an analogy, or a sharper question when useful. Do not turn every prompt into a scored diagnostic, a completion gate, or a demand for an action plan. The human may choose a direction, combine them, or leave the question open.
Other atelier lenses can develop an interesting thread without running all lenses. The optional probe detects declared surface patterns; it does not judge taste or originality.
Optional references
Read selectively when a thread needs another perspective or a concrete technique. The notes supply possibilities, examples, and limits; none is a prerequisite or a requirement to close the exploration.
- Familiar visual patterns as creative prompts
- From a visual premise to an experiment
- Changing the activity a surface makes possible
- Archetypes as borrowing grounds
Probe usage and limits. Probes remain optional and do not create a creative checklist run.
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