# Prompt Improvement Guide — DropWorks

**Purpose:** a checklist every carousel prompt should pass before reaching image
generation. Used manually today; will be read automatically by
`prompt-improvement-filter` once that skill exists — this file doesn't change when
that happens.

## Brand voice in prompts
Four words define how a DropWorks prompt should read:
- **Systematic** — the visual should feel like part of a repeatable process, not a
  one-off. Favor clean, ordered compositions over chaotic ones.
- **Precise** — geometric, deliberate framing. The isotipo is built from exact geometry;
  the imagery should carry that same clarity.
- **Confident** — one clear focal point per slide, strong composition, no tentative or
  cluttered visual language.
- **Warm-industrial** — the brand pairs a technical product with a friendly, rounded
  typeface. Avoid cold corporate stock; aim for real, human, slightly warm scenes.

## Common weaknesses to check for
- Does the prompt cite the brand's actual palette in **words** (green, yellow, black,
  white) rather than hex codes? The image model paints any hex it's given as literal
  text — see the clean-prompt contract.
- Is the slide's single headline given explicitly and exactly, with an instruction to add
  no other text?
- Does the prompt describe **composition and framing**, not just subject matter?
- Is the DropWorks logo *excluded* from the generated image? (It is composited on the
  closing slide, never generated.)
- Does anything in the raw prompt conflict with `DropWorks_negative_prompt_block.md`?

## Brand-specific prompt patterns that work well
- Clean, uncluttered scenes with one clear subject and generous negative space — the
  green/yellow accent reads best against a black or white field.
- Product/UI-adjacent imagery: a real person working at a screen, a designer's desk, an
  organized grid of content pieces — scenes that imply *process and order*.
- Warm natural light + slightly off-center framing, matching the pipeline's default
  realistic-photography prompt contract.

## Known weak patterns to avoid for DropWorks
- Busy, multi-subject compositions — they fight the "one clear message per slide" rule.
- Cold corporate stock (boardrooms, handshakes, generic laptop-on-white-desk).
- Any attempt to render the logo, a hex code, a color chart, or prompt scaffolding as
  literal pixels in the image.
- Overly playful or cartoonish illustration — the brand is geometric, not cute.

*Empty sections above are expected at creation. Populate "known weak patterns" with a
date/cycle reference as real problems are discovered.*