mcp__plugin_pika_pika__identity_balance({verbose: true})

Estimated cost: about 600-1,200 credits (~$6-$12) for scrape/transcription if needed, GPT-image-2 mood-board and voice-page atmosphere tiles, MCP HTML image renders, JPG conversion, final html_to_pdf render, and post-render analyze_media PDF QA. This exceeds $5, so Reply

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• Lead with what the inputs prove, not what the user wished they'd hear. If their photos are crappy, say so and tell them how to fix it.
• Initiate the strategic conversation, don't wait to be asked. The user doesn't always know what's lucrative or what content mix gets paid — bring receipts.
• Name the gap explicitly: "to look like @[reference], you'd need to add X / drop Y / shoot in Z light." Don't soft-pedal.
• No empty validation. If the user's bio is generic, the answer isn't "love it!", it's a rewrite.

Glow-up time. This is going to whip you into a more marketable shape online — honest read on what's working, what's not, where the money actually is for someone with your inputs, and what to fix to get there. You'll leave with a designed Influencer Persona doc + a roadmap to actually become that persona.

Light-touch from you — drop files or paste links:

• IG / TikTok / YouTube handle — I'll pull your bio, recent posts, and captions. This is the strongest signal and the most important input.
• 16+ individual full-res photos that feel like "you" — drag-drop the actual files. If you gave active socials, scraped post imagery can cover some of this; if you have no socials, the full PDF needs enough real photos for the mood board and the voice-mode pages.
• Any URLs that show your taste — Pinterest, Spotify, Depop, Letterboxd, etc. Drop as many or as few as you want.
• Describe yourself + how you want to come off on social — a few sentences in your own words. What you're actually like, and what you want people to see when they land on your profile.
• No socials yet? Say "start from scratch" and I'll ask you everything. Before the mood board / PDF stages, I'll still ask for 16+ real photos so the visuals are grounded in you.

Handles + a few photos is the strongest combo. Skip what doesn't apply. Nothing here requires screenshotting apps, drafting long paragraphs, or recording video.

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quick framing: this isn't a packaging exercise. i'm going to be honest with you about what's working in your current presence, what isn't, where the lucrative paths are for someone with your inputs, and exactly what to fix to get there. by the end you'll have a designed influencer persona doc + a real roadmap.

here's how this works — 5 steps:
1. **Read the input** — i scrape your socials (if you gave handles), look at your photos, ask you a few questions, play back what i'm hearing
2. **Strategic direction + lock the identity** — the real-talk step. i lay out the lucrative paths your inputs actually support (with stats), name the gaps between your current feed and where you want to go, critique your current photography honestly (lighting, framing, gear) and tell you what to buy. then we lock the persona. you approve before we move on.
3. **Mood board** — i curate from your photos (color-graded if your influencer aesthetic differs from your existing grid), then GPT fills aesthetic gaps. you approve.
4. **Influencer Persona PDF** — i draft your voice bank (bios, caption modes with visual examples, hook openers, DM voice, do/don't) and lay it into a multi-page branded PDF alongside your persona overview, content categories, mood board, and a Key Next Steps roadmap. you approve it from the PDF preview.
5. **Package the kit** — persona.md + folder kit (mood board, voice bank, PDF) saved to ./tmp/. only after you say "ship it".

let's start. [questions follow]

• If any supported social handles or supported social URLs were dropped → call

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__scrape_social

  on those supported socials IN PARALLEL before asking the canonical questions, so data is back by the time the user answers. Use

  rehost: true

  for Instagram/TikTok feed and video actions so downstream curated tiles have durable

  pika_cdn_url

  / CDN media instead of ephemeral signed media. Do not send unsupported taste URLs (Spotify, Depop, Letterboxd, personal sites, mood-board links, etc.) to

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__scrape_social

  ; keep them as taste signals and ask what to borrow from them if the intent is not obvious. Standard call pattern per supported platform:
  • instagram:

    instagram.profile

    +

    instagram.user-posts

    (limit 30,

    rehost: true

    ) +

    instagram.user-reels

    (limit 30,

    rehost: true

    )
  • tiktok:

    tiktok.profile

    +

    tiktok.profile-videos

    (limit 30,

    rehost: true

    )
  • youtube:

    youtube.channel

    +

    youtube.channel-videos

    (limit 30)
  • twitter:

    twitter.profile

    +

    twitter.user-tweets

    (limit 30)
  • pinterest:

    pinterest.profile

    (limit 50) Pull recent posts, captions, bios, visual style. Note dominant subjects, lighting, voice patterns, caption length, hook style. Captions, bios, metrics, and visual-style summaries are text/strategy signal that informs Step 2; they are not dropped raw into visual artifacts. Clean public-feed media from the

    rehost: true

    scrape can become curated image source material in Step 3 / Step 4 after the source-priority and no-text gates below. Scraped captions are the PRIMARY voice signal for the voice bank in Step 4 — direct user captions beat any inference from chat answers. Chat-voice + intake answers are the fallback only when scrape fails (private account, no posts yet, brand-new handle).
• If camera roll / photos → look at them. Note settings, lighting, what's in frame, what's NOT (no people? all flatlay? always outdoors?).
• If selfie video → transcribe via

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__transcribe_audio

  , note vocabulary, energy, pacing, fillers, what they're enthusiastic about.

1. Describe yourself + how you want to come off on social — a few sentences in your own words. What you're actually like, and what you want people to see when they land on your profile. (This question covers the real-self / projection / authenticity dial all at once.)
   • Plus: name 1–3 creators or characters you want to feel like. For each, tell me which dimension you want to borrow — their voice, their content type, or their visual aesthetic. You don't have to like all three things about them; specify what's in and what's out. ("I want her voice but not her content" is a totally normal answer.)
2. Where do you live + what's your day-to-day pace? (Location + speed signal — affects the authenticity register and the kinds of settings the mood board renders.)
3. Ideal friday night? (Single vibe question — surfaces personality quickly. "TV and bed early" vs "out till 2am" reads instantly.)
4. What are you hoping to get out of this? (The WHY — followers, a business, dating, community, just expression, something else. This drives every strategic choice downstream.)

• The person: 2–3 sentence read on who they actually are
• The voice signal: how they talk in the inputs you read (specific phrases, energy, what they avoid)
• The visual world: what their feed, camera-roll photos, taste URLs, and/or reference creators suggest, AND what they're reaching for if different (this is the seed for the Step 2 visual aesthetic spec)
• The authenticity dial: real / amplified / different — and along which axis
• References anchoring the work: each creator they named + which dimension to borrow (voice / content type / visual aesthetic)

• Niche label (specific, not "lifestyle" — "Boston-local lifestyle creator", "Texas barre-class founder content", "millennial dad humor for finance")
• Why this direction fits the inputs — point to the specific posts / photos / things they said that support it
• Rough monetization profile — typical CPM range, common brand-deal floor at different follower tiers (e.g. "fashion micro: $100–250/post at 5K; lifestyle micro: $150–300/post; finance: $400–800/post"), affiliate/LTK reasonableness, sponsored-post realism. Every numeric monetization claim must either cite a source verified during this run or be explicitly labeled broad heuristic estimate; never present unsourced CPMs, follower thresholds, or brand-deal floors as precise facts.
• Content load this path requires — posting cadence (e.g. "4–5 outfits/week + 1 location reel"), production tier expected (phone-shot OK vs. mirrorless needed), recurring formats audiences expect in this niche (e.g. "OOTD posts + 'GRWM for X' reels + monthly local-roundup carousel")
• Who's already winning here at your size — name 2–3 creators at 5K–30K who run this exact play, with one sentence each on what makes them work. Only name real creators, handles, follower tiers, or current metrics if verified during this run via

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__scrape_social

  or another live supported source. If you cannot verify, use clearly labeled archetypes instead (e.g. "local style micro-creator archetype") and omit handles/counts.

• The missing content category — "you have OOTD nailed but zero hosting / kitchen content; the persona you named needs that bucket"
• The format gap — "you have static posts but no reels; the niche pays reels at 3–5× the CPM of static"
• The cadence gap — "you're posting ~1×/week; this niche expects 4–5×/week to stay in the algorithm"
• The voice gap — if their actual captions don't match the voice they say they want, name the specific phrase patterns they need to drop and the ones they need to add
• The aesthetic gap — if their current visual register diverges from where they want to land (e.g. flat phone-flash shots vs. cinematic golden-hour register), say so explicitly
• The follower-tier gap — name where they are now (e.g. 2K), what tier the paid work starts (typically 5K+ for local brand deals, 10K+ for national), and what realistic 90-day growth looks like for someone executing the plan

• Lighting — name specific photos that are working ("the kitchen shot at 4pm — that's the window light to chase") and specific ones that aren't ("the trench post is shot into overhead-noon light, which is why your face is hard-shadowed; reshoot at 3–6pm window light")
• Framing & composition — phone held too low or too high, subject too centered, headroom issues, busy backgrounds, where to actually stand
• Color & post-processing — are they using a preset / preset pack? do their colors match the locked visual aesthetic? if not, name specific tools
• Consistency — does the grid feel like one person's eye? where does it break?
• Selfie technique specifically — phone position, mirror cleanliness, what to wear vs. avoid for OOTD selfies, how to hide face if face-shy

• Starter tier (under $100): phone tripod ($15), clip-on reflector or A4 white foam board ($25), one Lightroom mobile preset pack matched to their aesthetic ($15–40), basic ring light or LED panel if their home is dim ($30)
• Intermediate tier ($100–500): small softbox kit, gorillapod for outdoor reels, wide-angle phone clip-lens for mirror selfies in small spaces, a dedicated mic for reel voiceovers (~$80)
• Advanced tier ($500+): only recommend if the user is already at 10K+ and asks — entry-level mirrorless (Sony a6400 / Fujifilm X-S20) + a 35mm-equivalent prime, color-graded preset subscription, an editor

• Palette: [specific colors / named tones — "warm cream, cognac brown, dusty rose, deep navy" beats "neutrals"]
• Lighting: [warm window / overcast / golden hour / harsh flash / candlelight — which lighting dominates]
• Settings: [where shots take place — specific. "Brooklyn brownstones, marble-top coffee shops, kitchen counter at 10pm" beats "city lifestyle"]
• Photography style: [phone-camera POV, mirror selfies (faceless or face), 3/4 candids, overhead flatlay, etc. — which framings dominate]
• Subjects in frame: [hands holding things, full body, faces, food, books, the dog, the bar, etc.]
• Forbidden visual elements: [what would never appear — e.g. "no full-glam beauty shots", "no landscape paintings", "no studio-clean white backgrounds"]
• Relationship to existing grid: [if their existing photos already match this aesthetic, say so. If the aesthetic is a slight evolution from their grid, name exactly what shifts — e.g. "their grid is currently warm and slightly washed; the influencer aesthetic pushes deeper shadows + cooler highlights for a more cinematic read." Step 3 uses this to decide whether to apply light color-grading to her photos for cohesion.]

• [@handle or name] — borrow their [voice / content type / visual aesthetic]. Specifically: [the actual thing — pacing, lighting, type of self-disclosure, etc.]
• ...

**Anti-generic check before delivering:**
- Could this identity be re-pasted onto a different person without changing anything? If yes, push for specificity.
- Does the **Visual aesthetic** section name specific colors, lighting, and settings — or is it adjective soup? Step 3 has to render this; "warm and minimal" is not enough.
- Does each **Reference creator** entry specify the dimension (voice / content type / visual aesthetic) AND the specific thing to borrow? Vague references like "feel like @emmachamberlain" without naming WHAT are a failure state.

**Deliver the identity in chat, then explicitly ask:** "does this feel like you? anything to push harder, soften, or rewrite before I move to the mood board?"

🛑 **Wait for explicit approval.** "yes" / "this is me" / "ship it" / "perfect, do the board". Not "ok", not silence, not "make it more X" (that's feedback — incorporate and re-ask). Approval gates are hard stops.

Visual aesthetic

1. Individual full-resolution photos from the user (their camera roll, photos they love, full-res files) — the strongest curated source. These go in

   mood-board/curated/

   . 1a. Handle-only public-feed fallback for video-heavy / mostly Reels accounts. If the user gave a public handle but no separate photo files, scraped feed imagery can provide curated tiles. For image posts, use the highest-quality

   image_versions2.candidates[0].url

   . For video posts where

   media_url

   is a

   .mp4

   , do not use the ephemeral IG

   visual_media_url

   / signed cover JPG as the curated tile source; do not alter any signed-cover query param because that causes

   URL signature mismatch

   , and mid-clip covers often include baked-in caption or title overlays. Use only the durable rehosted

   .mp4

   returned by the Step 1

   rehost: true

   scrape (the

   pika_cdn_url

   /

   cdn.pika.art

   media; treat it as

   is_durable: true

   ) and call

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__extract_frame(video_url: <durable_rehosted_mp4>, time_s: 0)

   . Treat each extracted frame as a candidate tile, not an approved tile: immediately call

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

   on the frame URL with an OCR / visible text / no-text prompt before placement. This sourcing-time check must happen before the frame becomes a mood-board tile, PDF content-category tile, or voice-page curated tile. If frame 0 contains text, a title card, or a burned-in caption, drop the reel or try a later keyframe (for example

   time_s: 1.5

   or

   time_s: 3

   ) and run the same

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

   no-text check before using that later keyframe. If no durable rehosted

   .mp4

   is present, retry the scrape with

   rehost: true

   ; do not fall back to a signed cover URL. Final PDF QA is only a backstop after this sourcing gate, never the first text-detection step.
2. NEVER crop from an IG grid screenshot. Tile widths in grid screenshots aren't pixel-aligned to clean fractions; auto-crop bleeds; result is bad. Confirmed-fail approach. If a user offers a grid screenshot, ask them for individual photos instead.
3. A mood board with zero curated tiles has failed. If neither user photos nor clean public-feed curated frames are available, unblock that first — never substitute generated stand-ins. If the user intended to provide photos and they didn't reach disk, ask them to re-upload. For start-from-scratch / no-social users, pause here and request 16+ individual photos before building visual artifacts: 6 mood-board curated tiles plus 10 separate PDF voice-page curated tiles.
4. Read the

   Relationship to existing grid

   field from Step 2. If the locked aesthetic is identical to the user's existing grid, place curated tiles as-is. If Step 2 names a slight evolution (e.g. "their grid is warm + washed, the influencer aesthetic pushes deeper shadows + cooler highlights"), apply light CSS color treatment in the HTML composite before rendering —

   filter: contrast(...) saturate(...) brightness(...)

   , a subtle overlay, or a mild blend-mode treatment. Never re-pass the user's photos through gpt-image-2 — image-model re-rendering drifts face/pet/object identity and breaks the "this is actually her" anchor. If the divergence is too large for CSS treatment alone, the answer is more generated atmosphere tiles in the new aesthetic + fewer untreated curated tiles, NOT regenerating her photos.
5. Identify aesthetic coverage gaps — what part of the locked Step 2 aesthetic isn't represented yet (a specific setting, framing, lighting condition)?
6. Fill gaps with

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__generate_image

   (provider="gpt-image-2") for social-content atmosphere only (load-bearing phrase — pushes gpt-image-2 away from vision-board / wallpaper energy; see Load-bearing phrases section), prompted in the Step 2 aesthetic (its palette, lighting, settings, photography style). See the hard rules below. Generated tiles go in

   mood-board/generated/

   .

• YES: phone-camera framing, candid 3/4 angles, mirror selfies (faceless if generated), in-hand POV shots (coffee on a table, book in lap, drink at a bar), tablescape overheads, dressing-room outfit flatlays, golden-hour walking-from-behind shots, brunch food close-ups, candle-lit dinner tables, vintage shop browsing, looking-up POV with sky behind, behind-the-scenes hands-doing-the-thing.
• NO: landscape paintings, atmospheric "vibes" tiles, sunset harbors with no human signal, moss macros, pure scenery, anything that reads as desktop wallpaper or art print. If a tile looks like a Tumblr aesthetic frame from 2014 — fail. The mood board must read as a curated 2024–2026 social feed.

references/aesthetic-prompts.md

• The user's face, body, hair → only their actual photos
• The user's dog, cat, pet, horse → only their actual photos
• Their partner, friends, family, kids → only their actual photos
• Their actual car, actual home, actual recurring objects → only their actual photos

references/templates/mood-board.template.html

mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_png

.tile

background-position

{{COLS}}

fontDisplay

fontBody

{{FONT_IMPORT}}

<link rel="stylesheet" href="...">

• {{TILES}}

  — one

  <div class="tile" style="background-image:url('IMAGE_URL');background-position:POS"></div>

  per tile.

  POS

  is the per-image crop focus:

  50% 20%

  upper-body OOTD,

  50% 35%

  top-down kitchen,

  50% 50%

  centered.

• {{BRAND_NAME}}

  ,

  {{SUBTITLE}}

  (tracked vibe words, e.g.

  BOSTON · WOOL COATS · COCKTAIL BARS

  ).

• {{FONT_IMPORT}}

  (a Google Fonts

  <link>

  when the pair isn't system-installed),

  {{FONT_DISPLAY}}

  ,

  {{FONT_BODY}}

  ,

  {{BG}}

  (lightest palette tone),

  {{FG}}

  ,

  {{MUTED}}

  .

mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_png

format: "png"

raster_options.viewport_px = { width: 1920, height: 1224 }

{task_id, status}

mcp__plugin_pika_pika__task_status({task_id})

references/templates/mood-board-no-header.template.html

{ width: 1920, height: 1080 }

1. Curated tiles required. A fully-generated mood board is a fail state. Valid curated tiles are user-supplied images or clean public-feed curated frames from a supported social handle. If you can't get either onto the board, the gate is "unblock the real curated source," not "ship without."
2. No regenerated real subjects. Re-read the hard rule above. The user's face, pet, partner, friends — never generated. Their atmosphere — fine.
3. No baked-in text on any tile. gpt-image-2 prompts must include the no-text guardrail — append

   "NO text anywhere in image"

   (load-bearing — gpt-image-2 otherwise bakes faux brand labels onto bottles, scarves, books; see Load-bearing phrases section). For handle-only reel-derived curated tiles, use frame 0 from the durable rehosted

   .mp4

   ; if a reel frame still shows burned-in caption/title overlays, drop it rather than shipping text on the board.
4. Anti-stocky test. If the board reads as stock photography (uniform polish, uniform palette, studio-perfect, no real-life imperfection) — fail. Trendy 2024–2026 aesthetic energy = real-feeling snapshots > campaign-clean glossiness. The curated user tiles anchor the "real" register; generated tiles should match that energy, not slick up.
5. Palette variation within the identity. A cohesive palette is fine; a single-register board ("just brown" / "just sage" / "just beige") reads dead. Even within a warm-cognac identity, you can include warm cream, dusty rose, deep navy, sage — whatever co-exists naturally in their world.
6. Cast diversity on any generated tiles featuring people. Name an ethnicity per prompt (load-bearing procedural rule — gpt-image-2 defaults to lighter skin tones otherwise; see Load-bearing phrases section). (Note: with the hard rule above, generated tiles featuring people should be RARE — strangers in scenes only, never the user.) See

   references/aesthetic-prompts.md

   for the cast-diversity prompt pattern.
7. Zoom-read the composite. Open the PNG. Verify no overlapping tiles, no broken aspect ratios, no misaligned content. Tile borders clean.
8. Anti-template check. Should feel like THIS person, not a one-word aesthetic preset (NOT "clean girl beige", NOT "dark academia", NOT "cottagecore" unless the user named that aesthetic). If you can label the board with one TikTok aesthetic word — push for specificity.

./tmp/[handle]-influencer-kit/voice-bank.md

• Bios (3 variants): IG main (short tagline), IG alt (longer, more specific), TikTok / casual.
• Caption modes (5): Hook, Story, Casual selfie, Vulnerable, Promo. Each mode = a CONTEXT label ("use when…") + 2 sample captions showing range (e.g., one short + one slightly longer).
• Hook openers (5): opening lines for Story / Reel / TikTok intros.
• DM + comment voice: reply-to-compliment, decline-a-brand-pitch, reply-to-hater (or "doesn't engage"), default emoji palette.
• Do & Don't (5 each): person-specific, not generic ("use specific place names" beats "post consistently").

• Seed every caption from the scraped captions in Step 1 — sentence rhythm, vocabulary, emoji habits, recurring phrases, hook style. Chat-voice fallback only if scrape failed.
• Every caption passes the anti-generic test (could it belong to someone else? rewrite if yes).
• Every caption passes the AI-creator-voice ban list (no "apparently i [did thing] now", no em-dash parentheticals for wit, no "[x] + [y]" lists with plus connectors, no "fake errand", no listicle minimal poetry, no "I'm just a girl who…").
• Forbidden words from the identity never appear in any sample caption.
• The 2-captions-per-mode range shows genuine variation.

• Page size: 16:9 landscape, 1920×1080 per page.
• Page count: exactly 12 pages maximum, each focused on one idea. Do not expand the kit past 12 pages: the required

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

  PDF QA path uses

  all_pages: true

  , and that sync path supports at most 12 PDF pages.
• Typography: the

  fontDisplay

  +

  fontBody

  pair locked in Step 3. NO third font, no mixing of register.
• Palette: the Visual aesthetic palette from Step 2. Page backgrounds default to the lightest tone; accents from the rest of the palette.

1. Cover — name in display font (very large, 120–180pt), tagline subtitle in tracked body-font caps, one hero image (full-bleed or large-cropped), small "Influencer Persona · [year]" label (never "Media Kit")
2. About / Identity — 1–2 paragraphs synthesized from

   identity.md

   (real-you + influencer-you, authenticity dial named). Side imagery: 1–3 curated photos + a small stats grid (Based / Niche / Status / Voice)
3. Mood Board — FULL BLEED — the approved mood board embedded edge-to-edge, no header band, no padding. Pre-render it by filling

   references/templates/mood-board-no-header.template.html

   ; the template owns the no-header grid math: 6 cols × 320w × 2 rows × 540h = 1920×1080 exactly, no gaps. Tiles touch directly with no cream between them, otherwise the PDF page shows 2–4px cream slivers on the edges and between rows. The title-banded mood board (with gutters + header) is the standalone disk artifact at

   mood-board.png

   ; the edge-to-edge variant is

   mood-board-no-header.png

   and only used in the PDF.
4. Content Categories — 4 cards laid out in a 2×2 grid, each card = image + category name + one-line description + 3–4 example post types. If a scrape exists, categories are derived from the user's actual scraped feed: tally the user's 30 scraped post captions, group by topic/format, pick the four highest-volume buckets. If there is no scrape/no social yet, label the page Proposed Content Categories and derive the four cards from the user's answers, taste URLs, reference creators, and real photos; do not claim they are existing feed frequencies. Examples: Outfits & Styling / Boston Lifestyle / Home & Recipes / Brand Partnerships for a NE-coastal lifestyle creator; Workouts / Recipes / Workouts-to-Recipes / Brand Collabs for a fitness creator; Tour & Travel / Studio / Real Life / Brand Collabs for a musician. Use the user's own specificity (e.g. "Nutcracker, holiday markets, Snowport" not "city event content"). This is more useful than a generic color-swatch page. Do NOT use a flat color-swatch page or a textured-material-swatch page — both variants read as boring; the texture variant specifically reads as "all cloth" and doesn't tell anyone what the creator actually MAKES.

references/templates/pdf-content-categories.template.html

grid-template-columns: 300px 1fr

{{CONTENT_CATEGORIES_TITLE}}

Content Categories

Proposed Content Categories

{{CARD_N_POS}}

50% 20%

50% 35%

50% 50%

references/templates/pdf-voice-mode.template.html

{{MODE_NAME}}

{{USE_WHEN}}

1. Hook openers + DM voice — numbered openers on one side, DM examples on the other
2. Do & Don't — two-column side-by-side
3. Key Next Steps — the roadmap page (replaces the older References + Contact page; never re-add a contact card). 4–6 cards in a 2-column grid, each card = number + section label (e.g. "01 · Lighting & Framing") + one-line headline + 2–3 sentences of concrete action. Content comes directly from Step 2's strategic conversation — the lucrative direction chosen in 2a, the gaps named in 2b, and the gear recommendations from 2c. Each card must be a shippable action with a specific number, brand, or behavior — not "improve your content." Example cards (from the gamar___b sample kit): "Stop shooting into harsh overhead light — buy a phone tripod ($15) + clip-on reflector ($25)", "Currently 80% OOTD; target 40/25/20/15 across the 4 content categories", "5K in 90 days: better lighting + 4–5×/week cadence + 1 reel/week tied to a seasonal moment".

• Next Steps layout lives in

  references/templates/pdf-next-steps.template.html

  — the explicit

  .next-grid { height: 720px }

  that prevents BOTH the 13th-empty-page and the 300px dead-zone is baked in (Chromium collapses

  1fr

  rows without a definite height; >740px overflows into an extra page). Fill 4–6 cards (number / label / headline / 2–3 sentences); delete the trailing card blocks for fewer than 6. Don't re-derive this CSS.

• Exactly 4 tiles per voice-mode page, arranged in the 2×2 grid above. With an 800×920px grid and 16px gap, each tile cell is 392×452px at page scale. Fill the cell with

  width: 100%; height: 100%; background-size: cover;

  and tune

  background-position

  per tile; do not force a separate 3:4 crop that would overflow the grid.
• Split: 2 curated + 2 freshly-generated tiles per page. Curated = scraped feed images at higher quality than what's in the mood board (different posts). For handle-only video-heavy / mostly Reels accounts, treat clean

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__extract_frame(video_url: <durable_rehosted_mp4>, time_s: 0)

  outputs from

  .mp4

  media_url

  posts as candidate curated feed images; do not use altered

  visual_media_url

  signed covers. Before any reel-derived frame is placed on a voice page or content-category card, call

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

  on the candidate frame with an OCR / visible text / no-text prompt. Reject frames with baked-in caption/title overlays; if you try a later keyframe, run the same

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

  no-text check on that later keyframe before placement. If there is no feed/no social yet, use different user-provided camera-roll photos instead. If there are no curated user photos or clean public-feed curated frames, do not build the PDF; pause and request real photos.
• Voice-page tiles MUST be different from the mood board. The mood board is the visual world; voice pages demonstrate the voice with fresh imagery. Reusing mood-board tiles flattens the read.
• Be smart per mode — match imagery to mode intent:
  • Hook → bold scroll-stopper OOTD / cinematic outfit walks
  • Story → narrative moments (kitchen, family content, walking scenes)
  • Casual Selfie → actually selfies from the user's real photos, or face-free generic selfie-register generated tiles if the user did not provide selfie photos — mirror selfie with phone fully obscuring face, cropped outfit/body detail, back-of-head 3/4, hand-obscured face. No visible generated faces. NOT abstract atmosphere.
  • Vulnerable → quiet-moment imagery — unmade bed, candle, journal, wine-and-candle
  • Promo → product-on-table, brand-deal-style flat lays, the user's own brand collab posts
• Curated photos (the user's real face / pet / partner) are placed as-is — never AI-modified. Light CSS color treatment from Step 3 is OK; full re-rendering through gpt-image-2 is not.
• For generated selfie tiles, never generate the user's face — render faceless mirror-selfie POVs (

  "hand obscuring face"

  ,

  "phone obscuring face"

  ,

  "back-of-head 3/4"

  ) (load-bearing phrasings — without them gpt-image-2 invents the user's face, breaking the "this is actually her" anchor; see Load-bearing phrases section) so the imagery reads as a selfie register without faking identity.
• gpt-image-2 content-policy fallback: if a generated selfie-register prompt is rejected because the words "mirror selfie", "selfie", or "phone obscuring face" trip the policy filter, retry once with reworded, policy-safe framing. Drop the word "selfie"; write a hand-held phone body-framing shot, cropped outfit/body detail, or face hidden by a hand-held phone. Do not retry the same prompt or repeat rejected wording. The fallback still requires no visible generated faces and must not invent the user's face.

• Typography hierarchy. Display font for page titles + brand name; body font for subtitles, captions, body. Consistent type scale across pages (e.g., 120 / 64 / 32 / 18 / 13 pt). No third type family.
• White space is a feature. Don't fill page edges to edges. Generous margins (80–120px outer).
• One focal element per page. Each page has one thing to look at — title + visual, or caption + photo, not 8 things competing.
• Palette discipline. Use the locked Visual aesthetic palette throughout. Don't introduce new colors.
• No baked-in fake data. Don't invent follower counts, engagement rates, or brand partnerships that didn't happen. If a stats section is included, mark inferred items.

• Assemble from the page templates — don't author HTML/CSS.

  shared_head

  =

  references/templates/pdf-shared-head.template.html

  (carries the palette/font vars + ALL page CSS; fill its

  {{FONT_IMPORT}}

  /

  {{FONT_DISPLAY}}

  /

  {{FONT_BODY}}

  /

  {{BG}}

  /

  {{FG}}

  /

  {{ACCENT}}

  /

  {{MUTED}}

  tokens).

  body_pages[]

  = the filled per-page templates in sequence:

  pdf-cover

  →

  pdf-about

  →

  pdf-moodboard

  →

  pdf-content-categories

  →

  pdf-voice-mode

  ×5 (one per mode) →

  pdf-hooks-dm

  →

  pdf-do-dont

  →

  pdf-next-steps

  . Each body fragment is markup-only; the worker injects

  shared_head

  into every page and renders them in parallel, then merges.
• Use one

  @page

  rule per slide (1920×1080 landscape, no margins on @page).
• Embed fonts by filling

  {{FONT_IMPORT}}

  with one Google Fonts

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="...">

  tag; that token is inserted before the shared

  <style>

  block.
• Reference images as HTTPS URLs — for local images, call

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__upload_asset

  first to get a CDN URL, then reference that URL in the HTML.
• 🛑 LOAD-BEARING: pass

  pdf_options.paper_size

  explicitly to

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_pdf

  . The

  @page { size: 1920px 1080px }

  CSS rule alone is not enough —

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_pdf

  defaults to US Letter (792×612 points, 1.294 aspect ratio) if

  pdf_options.paper_size

  is omitted, and the 1920×1080-designed HTML gets scaled/letterboxed into the letter page with giant white bars top and bottom. Always pass:
  json

  "pdf_options": {
    "paper_size": {"width": 1920, "height": 1080, "unit": "px"},
    "margins": {"top": 0, "right": 0, "bottom": 0, "left": 0, "unit": "px"}
  }

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_pdf

  defaults to async mode. If the response is

  {task_id, status}

  , poll

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__task_status({task_id})

  in a tight loop until

  completed

  ,

  failed

  , or

  cancelled

  ; on

  completed

  , read the PDF URL from the task result before proceeding. Keep the completed

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_pdf

  /

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__task_status

  result in notes; its server-side structural metadata (

  page_count

  , and

  pages[]

  when present) is the only portable page-count evidence for the timeout fallback. Verify after each render by calling

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

  on the rendered PDF as

  application/pdf

  with

  all_pages: true

  . Ask it to inspect all pages for 16:9 landscape framing, no US Letter letterboxing, no giant white bars, no blank trailing pages, and no page that breaks the visual hierarchy. If

  all_pages: true

  times out on an image-dense PDF, use the Step 4e per-page QA + server-result page-count /

  pdf_options.paper_size

  fallback before deciding whether the render can proceed. If it reports letterboxing or white bars, rerender with the explicit

  pdf_options.paper_size

  above.
• Save the resulting PDF as

  ./tmp/[handle]-influencer-kit/influencer-persona.pdf

  (never

  media-kit.pdf

  ).

mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_png

format: "jpg"

raster_options.viewport_px

raster_options.jpeg_quality: 85

{task_id, status}

mcp__plugin_pika_pika__task_status({task_id})

1. Generate each atmosphere tile with

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__generate_image

   (provider="gpt-image-2").
2. For every generated PNG that will be embedded in the PDF, transcode/downscale through

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_png

   by placing the source URL as a full-bleed background image in a small HTML frame and rendering

   format: "jpg"

   at quality 85.
3. Build an explicit

   asset_url_map

   in scratch notes: raw generated URL → final JPG URL. Insert the final JPG URLs into the

   body_pages

   fragments.
4. Grep the final HTML/source notes for raw

   gpt-image-

   PNG URLs before render; the mood board full-bleed PNG may remain, but voice-page generated tiles should use the final JPG URLs.
5. Call

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_pdf

   with

   body_pages

   ,

   shared_head

   , and the explicit

   pdf_options.paper_size

   above.
6. A 12-page kit at this spec should land far below 50 MB. PDFs in the 40–55 MB range mean the MCP JPG conversion step was skipped or the HTML still references raw generated PNGs. AI tiles that still look "stocky" after this means the composition itself is the problem — go to Step 4d.5 for the re-generation prompt formula.

mcp__plugin_pika_pika__upload_asset

• Presigned URLs expire in 300s. A sequential

  curl PUT

  chain of 10+ files where each takes 8–12s can exceed the window for the last few URLs. Always run PUTs in parallel using

  (curl ... &)

  subshells +

  wait

  .
• Subshell PUTs can drop the

  Content-Type

  header silently — the file uploads but R2 stores it with

  text/html

  MIME, which then makes html_to_pdf reject the image with "MIME type 'text/html' is not in the allowlist." Mitigation: after every batch PUT, verify with

  curl -s -I <url> | grep content-type

  and re-PUT any wrong types.
• Re-mint + re-PUT immediately if you see 403/ExpiredRequest. Don't try to extend a stale URL.

1. Photography style — too-perfect lighting, pristine surfaces, no real-life imperfection. Light CSS treatment can help match the surrounding board.
2. Composition — perfectly arranged objects, centered subjects, magazine-product-shoot framing, no real-world clutter. NOT fixable after generation. It has to be solved at the prompt level.

• Three skincare bottles arranged on marble with peonies and rosemary = stock-photo flat lay. AI tell, period.
• Perfume bottle on a folded silk scarf with falling petals = product hero shot. AI tell, period.
• Cinnamon dough perfectly rolled with butter + brown sugar in matching bowls = food-blog stock. AI tell.

• Skincare: "Phone-camera mirror selfie detail of a generic person holding ONE bottle in a generic bathroom, phone fully obscuring face, toothbrush cup + towel cluttered behind. NOT a styled flat lay."
• Perfume: "Close-up of a generic wrist mid-spritz with the bottle in the other hand visible in soft focus. Background: generic cluttered vanity — hairbrushes, makeup, iced coffee. NOT a product hero shot."
• Cinnamon dough: "Generic hands rolling dough on a marble counter, dusty-rose linen towel half-falling off the side, butter and sugar in small mismatched bowls, off-center framing. NOT overhead-stock-flatlay-perfect."

[hand-held / mid-action verb] + [real environment with slight clutter] + [faceless person partially in frame] + [imperfect / off-center framing] +

"NOT a [styled flat lay / product hero shot / stock food photo]"

"NOT a styled flat lay / product hero shot / stock food photo"

• Slight

  filter

  changes only: mild contrast, saturation, brightness, or warmth.
• Optional overlay: very low-opacity noise texture or vignette via CSS pseudo-elements.
• Casual crop:

  object-position

  per tile so the subject is not uniformly centered.
• Never alter real user subjects through an image model. Real user photos stay source-faithful.

1. Render-read every page through MCP. Call

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

   on the final PDF URL as

   application/pdf

   with

   all_pages: true

   and ask for a page-by-page QA pass: confirm every page renders cleanly in 16:9 landscape, no blank pages, no US Letter white-bar letterboxing, no confusing/off-aesthetic pages, no broken hierarchy, and no visible image/crop failure. If any issue is reported, fix the HTML/assets and rerender before delivering.
   • Fallback only for image-dense PDF timeout / rasterization budget failures:

     all_pages: true

     is still the mandatory first QA call. If that all-pages call times out or fails only because the multi-page PDF rasterization budget was exhausted, do not block the run solely on that aggregate failure. Verify structure from MCP/server evidence first: the completed

     mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_pdf

     or

     mcp__plugin_pika_pika__task_status

     result must report

     page_count: 12

     (and

     pages[]

     length 12 when present), the render request must have exactly 12

     body_pages

     , and the submitted

     pdf_options.paper_size

     must be

     {width: 1920, height: 1080, unit: "px"}

     with zero margins. Treat that server-render result + request as the MediaBox/page-size contract; do not run local PDF inspection or local PDF tools/libraries. If the server result lacks

     page_count

     , the fallback is not proven: rerender with smaller JPG assets or stop and report

     pdf_structural_metadata_unavailable

     . Once structure is proven, run per-page MCP QA with

     mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media(media=<pdf_url>, application/pdf, page: <n>)

     for page 1 through page 12, asking the same visual QA question for each page. Any per-page visual defect still blocks delivery and requires rerender.
2. Anti-AI-voice on all captions is re-checked before they go into the PDF.
3. Real photo integrity — the user's face / pet / partner only as curated originals (or lightly graded), never AI-rendered.
4. Typography consistency — same display + body pair on every page. No surprise font swaps.
5. No baked-in text on any tile (carried over from Step 3). Check generated, curated, public-feed, and reel-derived tiles; if a frame has burned-in caption/title overlays or any other visible text, replace it and rerender before delivery. For reel-derived tiles, verify the build notes include the sourcing-time

   mcp__plugin_pika_pika__analyze_media

   OCR/no-text result for each candidate frame before placement; final PDF QA is a backstop after sourcing, not the first text gate.
6. Palette stays inside the spec — no rogue colors.
7. PDF size under 50 MB — if html_to_pdf returns a "File too large" error, the MCP PNG→JPG conversion step (4d) was skipped.
8. Voice-page imagery is mode-appropriate — Selfie page actually shows selfies; Vulnerable page actually shows quiet-moment imagery. Not "abstract atmosphere for everything."
9. Voice-page tiles are not mood-board tiles. Fresh imagery only.

build-a-brand

./tmp/[handle]-influencer-kit/
├── influencer-persona.pdf      # HEADLINE artifact — the designed Influencer Persona PDF (never named "media-kit.pdf")
├── mood-board.png              # approved composite board (~1920×1224 with title header)
├── mood-board-no-header.png    # full-bleed variant used in the PDF (1920×1080, no title band)
├── persona.md                  # comprehensive identity spec (contract for downstream skills) — formerly brand.md, do NOT recreate as brand.md
├── identity.md                 # "who you are" vs "who your influencer is" + strategic direction + gap analysis + content critique — long-form
├── voice-bank.md               # bios, captions (with context labels + 2 per mode), hooks, DMs, do/don't — what the PDF was built from
├── next-steps.md               # Key Next Steps roadmap from Step 2a strategic direction, Step 2b gap analysis, and Step 2c content critique / gear recs; mirrored as a standalone file for downstream content calendar skills
├── images/                     # 🛑 LOAD-BEARING: every image that appears in the PDF, packaged together
│   │                           #   the user receives a self-contained reference of all the visual assets without
│   │                           #   having to dig through mood-board/ and build/ subfolders. shipped at the same
│   │                           #   level as the PDF so it's obvious. populate with copies (not symlinks) of:
│   ├── tile_01.jpg … tile_06.jpg     # 6 mood-board curated tiles used in the composite
│   ├── voice_01.jpg … voice_10.jpg   # 10 voice-page curated tiles used in voice grids + categories page
│   ├── v_hook_1.jpg … v_promo_2.jpg  # generated voice-page tiles after MCP JPG conversion
│   ├── mood-board.png          # title-banded version (matches root-level file)
│   └── mood-board-no-header.png # full-bleed version embedded in PDF page 3 (matches root-level file)
├── mood-board/                 # raw source assets (kept for re-generation, not for end-user browsing)
│   ├── curated/                # individual full-res user photos
│   ├── voice-curated/          # 10 tiles pulled from feed for the voice pages (2 per mode, distinct from mood-board tiles)
│   └── generated/              # raw atmosphere tile URLs generated for mood board + voice pages
├── build/                      # build-time sources — keep for re-renders
│   ├── mood-board.html         # title-banded mood-board HTML rendered by html_to_png
│   ├── mood-board-no-header.html # full-bleed mood-board HTML rendered by html_to_png
│   ├── asset-url-map.md        # raw generated URL → MCP JPG URL map used by the final PDF
│   └── influencer-persona.html # source notes for shared_head + body_pages (never named "media-kit.html")
└── README.md                   # how to feed this kit to other skills

images/

./images/

mood-board/

build/

images/

persona.md

references/persona-md-template.md

• Quick reference block (handle, niche, voice in 3 words, aesthetic in 3 words, authenticity dial, typography pair)
• The full identity (real you + influencer you, with the dial explicitly stated)
• Strategic direction — the path chosen in Step 2a (niche label, why-it-fits, monetization profile, content load, who's already winning)
• Gap analysis — current state → target persona, what's missing (content categories, formats, cadence, voice, aesthetic, follower-tier)
• Content critique + gear recs — the production-quality call-outs from Step 2c, including the specific gear/tools recommended
• Visual aesthetic (palette, lighting, settings, photography style, subjects, forbidden, relationship to existing grid, typography: fontDisplay + fontBody)
• Voice (sounds like / never sounds like / adjectives / forbidden)
• Bio variants
• Caption modes
• Hook openers
• DM + comment voice
• Do & Don't
• Reference creators (with dimension + what to borrow)
• Key Next Steps — same 4–6 cards that appear on the final PDF page; this section is the canonical source and the PDF page reads from it
• How to use this with other skills — section telling other Pika skills (

  ugc-ads

  ,

  podcast

  ,

  founder-product-video

  ,

  app-sizzle

  ,

  app-store-screens

  ) how to read this kit. e.g. "ugc-ads: pull voice from voice-bank.md hook captions; pull likeness reference from one of the curated photos in mood-board/curated/; adjectives from the Visual aesthetic section drive setting/lighting; use the locked typography pair for any on-screen text."

README.md

• What's in the kit
• How to paste

  persona.md

  into other Pika skill prompts
• Which file feeds which skill (table)
• Note: the kit doesn't include a content calendar; it's identity + a glow-up roadmap, not a posting schedule.

./tmp/[handle]-influencer-kit/

./tmp/

~/Desktop

• Path to the kit folder
• Inline preview of the

  persona.md

  quick reference block
• 1-line on how to use it next: "paste

  persona.md

  at the top of any Pika skill prompt to get on-brand output."

• The person is the brief. Read what's in front of you (socials, photos, the way they talk in chat) before asking anything. Don't ask things you can already answer from inputs.
• One specific person, not a niche label. Don't write "lifestyle creator" — describe the actual human, with their actual comfort show and their actual high-school self.
• Authentic > polished. When the user provided real photos, real photos always beat AI-generated. GPT-image-2 only fills atmosphere-coverage gaps in the mood board — never regenerates the user's real subjects.
• Anti-generic at every output. Visual aesthetic test, caption test, do/don't test: could this belong to anyone else? If yes, rewrite.
• Authenticity dial is named explicitly. persona.md must say what's amplified vs. true-self. Hiding the dial makes the identity feel dishonest.
• Render-and-READ every text artifact. Open the file. Read it as a stranger would. If the caption could appear on a random influencer page, rewrite.
• Approval gates are hard stops. Three gates (identity → mood board → voice → ship). Creative direction ≠ approval.
• Output to

  ./tmp/

  , never

  ~/Desktop

  (per global rule).
• Always

  provider="gpt-image-2"

  for any image generation (per global rule).

• It has an actual opinion: "audiobooks count as reading. fight me."
• It names a real moment: "the third time I cried at the desk job"
• It trusts the reader: no over-explaining, no "as someone who has always..."
• It contradicts itself sometimes (real people do)

• "Living my truth ✨"
• "On a journey to..."
• "Sharing my passion for..."
• "As a [identity], I believe..."
• Anything that could be a Canva quote-card template

• Every sample caption must pass a read-aloud test. Read it. If it doesn't sound like a person, rewrite.
• Forbidden words from the identity must never appear in any sample.
• Vulnerability is fine; performed vulnerability is not. If the vulnerable-mode caption reads as a Notes-app screenshot draft for engagement — rewrite.

• "apparently i [did thing] / moved / became [thing] now" — fake self-discovery
• em-dash parentheticals for wit — "i moved to boston — apparently — to wear coats"
• "[thing] + [adjacent thing]" lists with plus signs as connectors — "one drink + a fake errand"
• forced quirky-specific details that are actually generic — "fake errand", "fake date", "the third time i [thing]", "the [universe/algorithm] knew"
• "I'm just a girl who..." / "I'm not [extreme] but [normal]" structures
• "real ones know" / "we don't talk about [thing]" / "iykyk" / "no thoughts just [thing]"
• lower-stakes self-deprecation that's actually self-promotion — "apparently I'm a wool-coat person now"
• listicle-style minimal poetry — "two drinks. one walk. no thoughts."
• observational tone with a wink at the end that wasn't earned

gpt-image-2

quality: "medium"

• Best instruction-following for cast-diversity prompts.
• Strongest no-text guardrail adherence (critical for mood board tiles).
• Native 9:16 portrait for the default 6×2 mood-board tile layout; 4:3 landscape if using the 4×3 alternate.

nano-banana-pro

seedream

• "NOT a styled flat lay / product hero shot / stock food photo"

  — append to every Promo-mode tile prompt and any prompt featuring objects on a surface. Without it, gpt-image-2 reverts to centered product composition that later CSS treatment cannot rescue. Referenced in Step 4d.5 prompt formula.

• "generic bathroom"

  /

  "generic cluttered vanity"

  /

  "slightly cluttered nightstand"

  — environmental context anchors that move the model from studio-set composition to lived-in-context composition without inventing the user's real home or body. Pair with the negative anchor above. Referenced in Step 4d.5 worked examples.

• "faceless"

  ,

  "hand obscuring face"

  ,

  "phone obscuring face"

  ,

  "back-of-head 3/4"

  — load-bearing for ALL selfie-mode generations. Without one of these, gpt-image-2 invents the user's face, breaking the "this is actually her" anchor (hard rule in Step 3). Referenced in Step 4b voice imagery + Step 3 hard rule. If gpt-image-2 rejects the original wording on content-policy grounds, retry once after dropping the word "selfie" and rephrasing as a hand-held phone body-framing shot with the face hidden by a hand-held phone; do not repeat the rejected prompt.

• "NO text anywhere in image"

  — every generated tile, no exceptions. Without it, gpt-image-2 bakes faux brand labels onto bottles, scarves, books, journal pages. Referenced in Step 3 mandatory check #3 + Step 4d.5 worked examples.

• "social-content atmosphere only"

  — mood-board generation framing. Pushes gpt-image-2 away from vision-board / wallpaper / art-print energy toward creator-feed energy. Referenced in Step 3 source priority #6.

• Name a specific ethnicity per face-bearing prompt — gpt-image-2 defaults to lighter skin tones otherwise. Vary across the set. Referenced in Step 3 mandatory check #6.
• Render generated PNGs through

  mcp__plugin_pika_pika__html_to_png

  before PDF embedding — the MCP JPG conversion keeps the final PDF under the 50 MB cap and lets CSS filters/overlays match the generated tile to nearby real-photo register. This is size + presentation hygiene; it cannot rescue bad generated composition.

• AI-creator-voice ban list — "apparently i [did thing] now", em-dash parentheticals for wit, "[x] + [y]" lists with plus connectors, "fake errand", "I'm just a girl who…", "real ones know", "iykyk", "no thoughts just [thing]", listicle minimal poetry. Every sample caption is checked against this. The list lives in full under Quality Standards § Voice Standards § HARD RULE: Never write in AI-creator-voice. Treat that list as load-bearing — adding a new caption-mode example without re-checking it against this list is the #1 way the voice bank silently degrades.