Conflict in skills/art/SKILL.md and skills/CORE/aesthetics

[m-ghalib]

I noticed some contradictions in instructions between regarding dark backgrounds that leads to inconsistent outputs.

[danielmiessler]

Thanks for catching this! You were right — there was a conflict between art/SKILL.md and CORE/aesthetic.md regarding backgrounds.

The Problem

art/SKILL.md had embedded aesthetic rules (muted earth tones, Saul Steinberg style) that conflicted with CORE/aesthetic.md (dark slate backgrounds, Tron/Excalidraw style).

The Fix

Just pushed a fix that:

1. Slimmed down art/SKILL.md from 453 lines → 123 lines (lean routing layer)
2. Removed the embedded conflicting aesthetic from the art skill
3. Made CORE/aesthetic.md the single source of truth for all visual styling

Now art/SKILL.md is just a routing file that points to workflows and references CORE/aesthetic.md for the actual aesthetic rules. No more conflicts.

Pattern: Single source of truth in CORE, skills are lean routing layers.

Closing this as resolved.