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Brief 59

Brand Coherence Audit

Does this look like one thing made on purpose — logo usage, icon language, imagery, radius and shadow DNA — audited against what the brand claims to be.

BRAND.md4 phases8 lenses~3.1k chars

Free & open · no signup · read-only — it ends by asking · nothing leaves your machine

What it does

You are working inside this repo. Mission: judge whether this product's visual identity reads as one deliberate thing — across logo, icons, illustration, imagery, and graphic assets — and find where it drifts into a collage.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

What it looks for

8 lenses it looks through

Phase 2 sweeps the codebase through every one of these, citing file and line for each finding.

1

One icon language

stroke widths, corner styles, fill versus outline, grid sizes: one set, or three libraries cohabiting

2

Logo hygiene

variants, clear space, minimum sizes, the backgrounds it appears on; the stretched and recolored sins

3

Radius and shadow DNA

corner radii and elevation as a consistent signature, or per-component whims; count the distinct radii

4

Imagery voice

photos and illustrations sharing a treatment (grade, style, subject) or stock-photo roulette

5

Personality match

does the visual tone (playful, serious, technical, warm) match the copy's tone and the product's claim; cite the mismatches

6

Cross-surface consistency

app, marketing site, emails, OG cards, favicon: recognizably the same product?

7

Asset hygiene

SVGs optimized and consistent (viewBoxes, currentColor), raster where vector belongs, duplicate logo files quietly drifting apart

8

Distinctiveness

swap the logo for a competitor's: does anything else still identify this product; name the ownable graphic elements, or their absence

The deliverable

What lands in your repo

One structured report at the repo root — or in reports/, if you keep one — the same shape every time, ready for a teammate — or the optional Studio — to act on.

BRAND.md
1
The identity, as shipped
one honest paragraph
2
Asset census
logos, icons, imagery: counts, sources, drift
3
Findings
ranked by visibility
4
The coherence kit
the 5–10 decisions (radius, icon set, image treatment…) that would make it one thing
One file. Evidence-backed. It ends by asking before touching anything. · see a real BRAND.md ↗
How it works

What it makes the agent do

Every Goal Prompt follows the same four steps, so results are consistent and repeatable — no matter which one you run.

1
Phase 1

Collect the identity

Gather what the brand claims.

2
Phase 2

Audit through 8 lenses

One icon language — stroke widths, corner styles, fill versus outline, grid sizes.

3
Phase 3

Curate

Name the identity in one sentence, from evidence — what the visuals actually say today.

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Phase 4

Report

Create BRAND.md at repo root.

Get started

Three ways to run this Goal Prompt

01 · COPY

Paste it in

Copy it and paste it into your agent inside the repo you want checked.

02 · INSTALL

As a slash command

Install the goal plugin once — two commands — then just type /goal:brand-coherence-audit.

1/plugin marketplace add GhostlyGawd/goal-prompts
2/plugin install goal@goal-prompts

Or install only this Goal Prompt as /goal-brand-coherence-audit:

curl -fsSL https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/install | BRIEF=59 sh
03 · AGENT

From an agent (MCP)

Let an agent fetch it mid-conversation, or pull the raw Goal Prompt by URL.

https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/raw/59.md
Transparency

The exact prompt

Nothing hidden — this is the whole Goal Prompt, verbatim. Read it in a minute, edit it, or copy it as-is.

Read the full brief (3,100 characters)
# Goal: Brand Coherence Audit

You are working inside this repo. Mission: judge whether this product's visual identity reads as one deliberate thing — across logo, icons, illustration, imagery, and graphic assets — and find where it drifts into a collage.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

## Phase 1 — Collect the identity
- Gather what the brand claims: name, tagline, stated personality — from README, marketing pages, design docs, brand files if any exist.
- Inventory the assets: logo variants, favicon, OG images, icon sets and their sources, illustrations, photography, empty-state art, email and social templates in the repo.
- Note the graphic DNA in code: border radii, shadow styles, gradients — the recurring shapes that make a look.

## Phase 2 — Audit through 8 lenses
1. **One icon language** — stroke widths, corner styles, fill versus outline, grid sizes: one set, or three libraries cohabiting
2. **Logo hygiene** — variants, clear space, minimum sizes, the backgrounds it appears on; the stretched and recolored sins
3. **Radius and shadow DNA** — corner radii and elevation as a consistent signature, or per-component whims; count the distinct radii
4. **Imagery voice** — photos and illustrations sharing a treatment (grade, style, subject) or stock-photo roulette
5. **Personality match** — does the visual tone (playful, serious, technical, warm) match the copy's tone and the product's claim; cite the mismatches
6. **Cross-surface consistency** — app, marketing site, emails, OG cards, favicon: recognizably the same product?
7. **Asset hygiene** — SVGs optimized and consistent (viewBoxes, currentColor), raster where vector belongs, duplicate logo files quietly drifting apart
8. **Distinctiveness** — swap the logo for a competitor's: does anything else still identify this product; name the ownable graphic elements, or their absence

## Phase 3 — Curate
- Name the identity in one sentence, from evidence — what the visuals actually say today.
- Rank drifts by user-facing surface area; separate unify fixes (pick one of the three styles) from define gaps (no style was ever chosen).

## Phase 4 — Report
Create `BRAND.md` at repo root:
1. **The identity, as shipped** — one honest paragraph
2. **Asset census** — logos, icons, imagery: counts, sources, drift
3. **Findings** — ranked by visibility
4. **The coherence kit** — the 5–10 decisions (radius, icon set, image treatment…) that would make it one thing

Start the report with today's date. If `BRAND.md` already exists from a previous run, read it first and lead with what changed since.

## Rules
- Judge what ships, not what the brand deck intended — cite files and surfaces
- Consistency beats beauty; one okay style everywhere outranks three good ones
- No brand surface in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
- If a `reports/` directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
- Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
- Report only — end by asking which fixes to make

House rules for this Goal Prompt

  • Judge what ships, not what the brand deck intended — cite files and surfaces
  • Consistency beats beauty; one okay style everywhere outranks three good ones
  • No brand surface in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
  • If a reports/ directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
  • Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
  • Report only — end by asking which fixes to make
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