scout

OMD-scout

A LEGO reference assembly, measured instead of pinned. Read protocol/reference-assembly.md under omd pack dir; it owns the exact eight stages, their single owners, and their artifact/stop boundaries. This skill collects evidence and names transferable principles; it does not design or implement the result.

Spawn oh-my-design:scout with the concept (ask one short question only when neither the request nor .omd/frame.md supplies one), the component inventory, working directory, and user URLs. User URLs are captured first and marked --from-user.

The scout owns only fragment inventory, brick analysis, and candidate assemblies. It uses browser-rs first for interactive visual research and user-directed image-region capture. Use the headless, reduced-motion omd render or omd probe Playwright fallback only when browser-rs is unavailable for this platform (no browser-rs build — e.g. an arm Linux host) or the user declines to install/use browser-rs; report which applies rather than silently swapping providers on a transient failure. Preserve the existing measured-transfer, motion, reduced-motion, and WebGL/3D gates. Do not scrape, hotlink, or ship source pixels.

Coverage contract

Build for decision coverage, not capture counts. Before searching, list the decisions the later design must make and the components it must support. The inventory is complete only when it contains useful, non-duplicate evidence for every applicable category:

• domain conventions and user expectations;
• direct competitors and meaningful alternatives;
• first-party or user/community language;
• typography and voice;
• motion when the concept or interaction actually needs it;
• every required component or state whose anatomy is uncertain.

There is no minimum query count, capture quota, famous-site quota, or mandatory award gallery. A small inventory with complete, independent evidence is better than a large gallery of near-duplicates. If a category is irrelevant, record why. If evidence remains weak or contradictory, report the gap and uncertainty instead of filling a slot with decoration. Never choose, target, estimate, or announce a number or range of references (never "18–25 references", never an "N of M" progress count) — there is no target count, and a made-up count is exactly the fabricated specificity this tool exists to remove. Capture strictly per decision: for each decision the design must make, capture until you have enough independent evidence to settle that one decision, then move to the next. Stop when another capture would not change any remaining decision. In chat, report only which decision you are gathering evidence for, never a count, quota, or gallery size.

Use the narrowest useful capture:

omd ref add <user-url> --as <name> --from-user
omd ref add <url> --as <name>
omd ref add <url> --as <name> --selector ".component"
omd ref add <url> --as <name> --selector ".component" --blueprint
omd ref import-image <local-capture-input.json>
omd ref principles <url> --as <name> --add "..."
omd ref list
omd ref check
omd ref candidates

Do not reflexively web-search the same famous benchmarks (토스/Toss, Linear, Stripe, Vercel, 당근) on every brief — that reflex is the reference-grammar homogenization this tool removes. Search this product's own domain, its real competitors, and its audience's language; a famous product enters only when the brief's real problem points to it. Run independent searches and captures in parallel — batch captures with omd ref add-batch <manifest.json>, never a sequential omd ref add per reference when several are already known. After capture, run omd ref audit; it fails when the recorded capture times show a sequential pass (a browser launch per reference) rather than a batched one — batch the known set so it passes.

Whole-page captures establish rhythm or product feel; tight selectors establish component anatomy; type and motion studies establish measured behavior; image references support only what cannot be rendered. A blueprint is allowed only for an explicitly requested exact component transplant or a structurally equivalent component problem. Structure may transfer; skin and pixels do not.

For Pinterest-like or gallery sources, use browser-rs to capture only the user-selected local region, then pass that PNG, its HTTP(S) source-page provenance, capture-region description, rights status/notes, visual role, and principles to omd ref import-image. A remote image URL is provenance only, never an importer input or production asset.

After analysis, write the internal candidate record, run omd ref check, then paste the exact omd ref candidates Markdown table directly into Codex/Claude chat. It is the selection surface: do not make a board UI, HTML, PNG, showcase, or omd-board command. The coordinator selects the strongest candidate itself and records it with omd ref select, disclosing its choice and reason; it does not ask the user to pick a candidate, and a candidate the user explicitly named still wins. Downstream receives only the resulting hash-bound sanitized selected assembly. Work at component granularity: for a specific button, card, or region, capture that exact component with a tight --selector and --shot, and record its own take, avoid, and adaptation per slot. The candidate table's local-capture column carries each part-image's local path, so attach the precise per-component capture in chat while the user selects and builds. For a user-directed selected reference, the hand then opens that slot's local part-image capture under .omd/refs/ and builds against it with image-to-code fidelity. Component-level and whole-surface fidelity are both allowed; omd ref distance is advisory — it reports closeness and never blocks shipping. Record attribution for every used reference and write the product's own copy.

Evidence quality and contamination

Prefer first-party product sources and direct user/community evidence over SEO summaries. Label source trust, uncertainty, and whether evidence is independent or derivative. Reject a non-user source only when it is derivative or convergent — an SEO/content-farm summary, a near-duplicate, or a page whose repeated patterns are unauthored defaults. A premium, first-party, intentional design is not slop for using a common pattern (a gradient, a card grid, a common sans) with a point of view; measure it. Slop is convergence without an author, not any use of a familiar pattern. Keep a user-provided contaminated source only as a named anti-reference. Drop kin at similarity >= .85; a cluster of related pages is one evidence family, not independent corroboration. A blocked page is not retried; use an honest image/discourse fallback or discard it.

Every retained capture records:

• the decision or coverage gap it answers;
• measured invariants and the reason they matter;
• what contradicts the concept;
• source trust and uncertainty;
• the token, component, motion, voice, or composition question it may inform.

Hand off measurements, principles, contradictions, coverage gaps, and trust. The hand may open a user-directed selected reference's local part-image under .omd/refs/ and build against it with image-to-code fidelity; component-level and whole-surface fidelity are both intended, and omd ref distance is advisory (it reports closeness, never blocks shipping). Record attribution and write the product's own copy rather than lifting source copy. Composer and eye still receive only the sanitized evidence summary required for their decision.