asset-strategy

Asset Strategy — Meta-Router for Asset Creation

Classify the user's request, ask at most one clarifying question, then dispatch to the right specialist via the Skill tool. Don't generate anything yourself — every media-type/asset-class combination has a dedicated specialist that owns the prompt patterns, polycount targets, gates, and fallbacks. Your job is the routing decision, not the work.

Step 1 — Classify by media type

Signal in user request	Continue at
image, art, concept, portrait, icon, sprite, texture, skybox, HUD	2D table
model, mesh, 3D, prop, character, rigged, vehicle, tree, level kit	3D table
sound, SFX, music, ambient, voice, VO	Audio table
cutscene, trailer, loop video, animated background	Video table
animation, idle, walk, attack, retarget, blend tree, IK, lipsync	Animation table
fire, muzzle flash, smoke, lightning, shake, hit-stop, particles	VFX table

If the request spans rows ("a witch with idle and a fire spell"), classify the first asset and dispatch — the specialist hands off when it's done.

Step 2 — Disambiguate (one question max)

Ask the exact phrase before dispatching. Skipping the question is the most common routing mistake.

Ambiguity	Disambiguation question (verbatim)	Routes
Concept art vs character portrait	"Quick check — exploring the look (3-4 variants for art direction) or generating a final character portrait for dialogue UI?"	summer:2d-assets/concept-art (exploring) / summer:2d-assets/character-portrait (final)
Prop vs character model	"Static object (sword, chair, lantern) or rigged character that needs animation?"	summer:3d-assets/prop-model / summer:3d-assets/character-model
Tile vs sprite sheet	"One seamless tile that repeats, or a frame grid for an animated sprite?"	summer:2d-assets/tileable-texture / summer:2d-assets/sprite-sheet
SFX vs music	"One-shot effect or a longer track (loop, theme, ambient bed)?"	summer:audio/sound-effect / summer:audio/music-track (or audio/ambient-bed)
Generate vs retarget motion	"Generate a new clip on this character, or apply an existing library to a new character?"	summer:animation/generate-motion / summer:animation/retarget
VFX recipe vs game-feel	"Particle/shader effect in the world or screen-feel (camera shake, hit-stop)?"	summer:visual-effects/recipes/<name> / summer:visual-effects/game-feel

Step 3 — Dispatch

Invoke the specialist via the Skill tool. Don't paraphrase — let it run. Pass the user's original phrasing through.

Routing tables

2D assets

Request	Skill
Concept / mood board / variants	summer:2d-assets/concept-art
Polished portrait / NPC bust	summer:2d-assets/character-portrait
Pixel sprite / retro icon	summer:2d-assets/pixel-art
HUD / button / inventory frame	summer:2d-assets/ui-graphics
Wall / floor / seamless ground	summer:2d-assets/tileable-texture
Run cycle / spritesheet grid	summer:2d-assets/sprite-sheet
360 sky / panoramic background	summer:2d-assets/skybox-panorama

3D assets

Request	Skill
Sword / chair / barrel / static object	summer:3d-assets/prop-model
Player / NPC / enemy / boss / rigged humanoid	summer:3d-assets/character-model (canonical Meshy auto-rig)
Modular dungeon / building blocks	summer:3d-assets/environment-kit
Car / spaceship / hard-surface vehicle	summer:3d-assets/vehicle-model
Tree / rock / mushroom / foliage	summer:3d-assets/organic-model

Polycount targets (hero 8k–15k, grunt 3k–6k, mobile 1k–3k, cinematic 20k–40k) live in each specialist.

Audio

Request	Skill
Sword clash / footstep / UI click	summer:audio/sound-effect
Theme / level music / boss track	summer:audio/music-track
Forest ambience / cave drone	summer:audio/ambient-bed
NPC line / VO / spoken dialogue	summer:audio/voice-line
Music that reacts to combat	summer:audio/adaptive-music
What should this game sound like	summer:audio/audio-direction

Animation

Request	Skill
Idle / walk / run / attack — new clip	summer:animation/generate-motion
Apply library to a different character	summer:animation/retarget
Blend tree / state machine	summer:animation/animation-tree
Look-at / IK / foot placement	summer:animation/procedural-animation
Lipsync / facial blendshapes	summer:animation/facial-and-lipsync

Video

Request	Skill
Intro cutscene / story sequence	summer:video/cinematic-cutscene
Steam trailer / marketing clip	summer:video/trailer-shot
Animated menu background / loop	summer:video/animated-loop

Visual effects

VFX is code, not generative — recipes are shader + GDScript + node setup, not image generation.

Request	Skill
Fire / torch / campfire	summer:visual-effects/recipes/fire
Muzzle flash / gunshot	summer:visual-effects/recipes/muzzle-flash
Water ripple / splash	summer:visual-effects/recipes/water-ripple
Lightning / electric arc	summer:visual-effects/recipes/lightning
Dissolve / disintegrate	summer:visual-effects/recipes/dissolve
Smoke / dust puff	summer:visual-effects/recipes/smoke
Hit spark / impact flash	summer:visual-effects/recipes/hit-spark
Magic glow / aura	summer:visual-effects/recipes/magic-glow
Camera shake / hit-stop	summer:visual-effects/game-feel

When NOT to use this skill

• The user already named the specific skill — go straight there.
• The user is debugging or running the game — route to summer:debug or summer:play.
• The asset is an existing Summer asset ID — call summer_get_asset, then summer_import_asset_by_id.
• The asset is being imported from a non-Summer URL (.glb / .wav from Sketchfab, Quaternius, AmbientCG) — call summer_import_from_url directly.
• The user wants to plan the whole game's asset list — summer:brainstorm-game first, then this router on each item.

Anti-patterns

• Generating yourself instead of dispatching. This file holds zero prompt patterns by design. If you're writing a summer_generate_image call from here, stop and invoke the specialist.
• Skipping the disambiguation question. Sends users to the wrong specialist and burns a paid generation. The verbatim phrasing in Step 2 is required.
• Routing concept-art to character-portrait (or the reverse). Different goals: concept-art produces 4 divergent variants for art direction; character-portrait produces 1 polished bust for dialogue UI.
• Inventing skill names. Only dispatch to skills listed above. If nothing fits, ask the user to clarify.
• Routing rigged-humanoid requests to prop-model. Anything that needs animation always goes to summer:3d-assets/character-model.

Fallback (no MCP)

The router still works without MCP — classification is text-only. It hands off to the specialist, which surfaces its own no-MCP fallback (typically: run the equivalent generation via the Summer dashboard / Meshy / nano-banana web, then summer_import_from_url once MCP is back).