auteur

# Auteur Skill > Ported from [agiwhitelist/auteur](https://github.com/agiwhitelist/auteur) (MIT), snapshot > commit [`9bca227d`](https://github.com/agiwhitelist/auteur/commit/9bca227df9877e60dc45d49783c8cbd885eccd9b) > — see `LICENSE`. Scripts, templates and references are the upstream files (CRLF→LF), with > Hermes adaptation notes and `references/` path fixes as the only edits. Auteur designs and builds web experiences the way a film director makes a film: script first, then assets, then the shoot, then the cut. It has three registers — **build** (an excellent conventional site), **direct** (a cinematic scroll-directed site) and **system** (a multi-screen product as one design system) — on one shared core of taste. Nothing ships until the page passes an executable anti-slop gate and the skill has looked at its own output. ## When to Use - A landing page, marketing site, hero section, portfolio or product page has to be **built or redesigned** — and looking generic is not acceptable. - The brief asks for **scroll animation, storytelling, or a site that feels like a film**. - A product spans **several screens that must feel like one thing** — app, dashboard, admin, onboarding, docs. - Someone says *make it beautiful*, *make it wow*, *cinematic*, or *design system*, naming no technique. Not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work. ## Prerequisites - **Node 18+** — every QA gate is a `.mjs` script run with `node` via the `terminal` tool. - **...