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name: skill-trading-cards
description: "Create Japanese 16:9 slide images in the original Skill Trading Cards style for skill catalogs, learning roadmaps, and gamified curricula. Use when Codex should turn numbered Japanese content into complete one-piece PNG slides matching the bundled dark navy, gold, teal, magenta and white foil-card sample family."
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# Skill Trading Cards

Create complete 16:9 Japanese slide images in the Skill Trading Cards style. Turn business lessons into finished slide boards whose cards, arrows, labels, and diagrams stay readable as thumbnails while keeping this family's distinct look.

Generate each slide as one finished PNG with image_gen: background, Japanese text, diagrams, objects, icons, texture, and layout together. Do not rebuild the design with PPTX shapes, HTML/CSS, SVG, or local text overlays.

If this skill arrives as a ZIP, extract it first and read this file plus all required references. Do not infer the style from the ZIP name or cover alone.

## Required Reading

Read these before generating:

1. references/input-workflow.md
2. references/visual-system.md
3. references/slide-recipes.md
4. references/quality-bar.md

Inspect assets/reference-slides/style-reference.png, samples/contact_sheet.png, and all ten sample slides. Treat the ten samples as authoritative finished examples. Preserve the whole family's near-black navy background with faint circuit traces and diagonal light sweeps; beveled metallic gold headline word with white keylined body and magenta-pink gradient emphasis trimmed in gold, plus a floating gold crown; dark subline plate with thin gold hairlines and gold diamond sparkles; side-rail grids of small collectible mini-cards with glowing icons and three gold rarity stars; a hero card with ornate gold foil frame and a fanned deck; large feature cards with thick ornate gold foil frames, corner filigree, beveled inner rails and deep blue, purple and teal holo interiors; gold-rimmed circular number badges; beveled solid gold arrows; three dark label plates seated in the gold frame with five gold rarity stars beneath; gold sparkles, foil glints, laurel emblems; dark bottom band with cut corners, gold trim and a trophy-in-laurel emblem. Do not copy only the cover layout.

## Non-Negotiable Workflow

1. Parse numbered user text into an ordered slide plan.
2. Preserve meaning while compressing long copy into one headline, one subline, exactly three short labels, and one bottom takeaway.
3. Choose one role from references/slide-recipes.md.
4. Generate exactly one complete 16:9 Japanese slide image at a time with image_gen.
5. Save as slide_01.png, slide_02.png, and so on.
6. Compare each result with the bundled contact sheet and quality bar.
7. Regenerate unreadable Japanese, invented details, logo-like marks, weak hierarchy, or generic template output.
8. If PPTX or PDF is requested, make PNG slide art first and place each PNG full-bleed into the delivery file.

## Design DNA

Style: Skill Trading Cards — collectible card-game Japanese slide. Design DNA: near-black navy background carrying a faint circuit-trace pattern and soft diagonal light sweeps; the headline is heavy Japanese gothic where one word is beveled metallic gold with a bright specular edge, the body is white with a dark keyline and the emphasis word is a magenta-to-pink gradient trimmed in gold, with a small gold crown floating above the center; the subline sits on a dark plate ruled top and bottom by a thin gold hairline and flanked by gold diamond sparkles, with one word picked out in gold; both side rails are packed with a grid of small collectible mini-cards in dark blue, purple, teal, crimson, green and brown, each holding one glowing icon and a row of three gold rarity stars, while a single hero card with an ornate gold foil frame stands at one edge and a fanned deck of gold-framed cards at the other; the main body is ONE dominant diagram of large feature cards with thick ornate gold foil frames, corner filigree and beveled inner rails, their interiors deep blue, royal purple and teal with a faint holo shimmer; a gold-rimmed circular number badge sits at the top-left of each card and a small gold crown may crown the strongest one; connectors are solid gold arrows with beveled edges; exactly three label plates are dark bars seated inside the gold frame along the card base, carrying white text with a row of five gold rarity stars beneath; decoration is treasure-like: gold sparkles, foil glints, thin circuit traces and laurel emblems; the bottom is a dark band with cut corners and a gold trim rule, white text with one phrase in gold and a gold trophy-in-laurel emblem at one end; overall premium, glittering, collectible; crisp vector card-game graphics, no photo, no realistic people.

Make every metaphor a card mechanic: blockers become empty binder slots with cracked frames and padlock seals; change becomes an unsorted dull pile re-filed into two gold-framed binder rows; steps become three feature cards joined by beveled gold arrows; improvement becomes an evolution chain gaining one rarity star per cycle; checks become binder slots stamped with gold check seals and lit star rows; roadmaps become a rising card-slot ladder to a trophy emblem; priority becomes a 2x2 binder grid with one full gold foil card; daily use becomes a fanned dealt hand of three moment cards; recap becomes one legendary crowned card holding three skill chips. Do not reduce the family to three equal cards with the right colors.

## Prompt Contract

Use this structure for every image:

Create exactly one complete 16:9 Japanese slide image.
Style: Skill Trading Cards.
Design DNA: near-black navy background with faint circuit traces and diagonal light sweeps; heavy Japanese gothic headline with a beveled metallic gold word, white keylined body, magenta-pink gradient emphasis word trimmed in gold and a small floating gold crown; dark subline plate with thin gold hairlines and gold diamond sparkles; side-rail grids of collectible mini-cards with glowing icons and three gold rarity stars; one dominant diagram of large ornate gold-foil-framed feature cards with corner filigree and deep blue, purple and teal holo interiors plus gold-rimmed number badges; beveled gold arrows; exactly three dark label plates seated in the card base with white text and five gold rarity stars beneath; gold sparkles, foil glints and laurel emblems; dark bottom band with cut corners, gold trim, one gold phrase and a trophy-in-laurel emblem
Required Japanese text:
- Headline: [short headline]
- Subline: [short subline]
- Labels: [exactly 3 short labels]
- Bottom takeaway: [one concise sentence]
Slide role: [cover / problem / before-after / three-step / loop / checklist / roadmap / matrix / case / recap]
Composition: follow the matching recipe and inspect samples/contact_sheet.png. Use one dominant role-specific metaphor from references/slide-recipes.md instead of a generic card grid.
Generate background, text, diagrams, objects, texture, and layout together.
Avoid extra microcopy, page numbers, fake logos, QR codes, URLs, dates, prices, watermarks, photorealistic people, equal card grids, and generic PowerPoint/Canva/Gamma output.

## Output Defaults

- One 16:9 PNG per slide, Japanese text only, thumbnail-readable.
- File names slide_01.png through slide_NN.png in content order.
- Keep the family look consistent across every slide in a deck.
