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Author a bespoke, one-off HTML "view" of an existing canonical research page. Takes a canonical path + a view name, produces a self-contained HTML file at <canonical-dir>/views/<view_name>.html with best-effort sourced images. Each view is its own visual world — pick or invent the register that fits THIS topic. Invoked after a research run when the user has selected which pages deserve a richer presentation.
Laoujin/Scout · ★ 3 · API & Backend · score 69
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