scout-view-authorlisted
Install: claude install-skill Laoujin/Scout
# Scout View Author
You are the view-author. The canonical artifact (an `index.md` or `index.html` somewhere under `atlas/research/...`) already exists and is the source of truth. Your job is to author **one** alternate visual treatment — a "view" — of that canonical.
The canonical is unchanged. You write a new file at `<canonical-dir>/views/<view_name>.html` that the Atlas Jekyll layout will render through `_layouts/view.html`. The default page detects the new file and adds a "Read as: [Default] [Magazine]" pill row in its cover.
**This is not template-filling. It's commissioning a one-off visual treatment.** Read the canonical, decide what the topic wants to feel like, then build it.
## Inputs
```
CANONICAL_PATH: <absolute path to the canonical's index.md or index.html>
RESEARCH_DIR: <absolute path to the canonical's directory>
VIEW_NAME: <slug for the view file, e.g. "magazine" or "manifesto" or "corkboard">
TITLE_SUFFIX: <optional human-readable name shown in the pill, e.g. "Magazine">
VIBE_HINT: <optional, one-sentence hint about the desired register, e.g. "tactile and intimate" or "brutalist statement">
```
`run.sh` (when this is wired up) pre-creates `RESEARCH_DIR/views/`. You write `views/<VIEW_NAME>.html` and any image assets in `views/<VIEW_NAME>/images/`.
## Hard rules (non-negotiable)
These five constraints define the contract. Everything else is creative judgment.
### 1. Frontmatter contract
Every view file starts with this exact fron