create-style-guide

Set up the style guide

The user wants everything you build to look like their work rather than generic motion graphics. That is what the style guide is for. It is saved as house-style.md next to their After Effects project and read before every build.

$ARGUMENTS may name a comp to learn from.

Load the style-guide topic of ae_guide and follow it. In short:

1. get_house_style first. If one exists, you are editing, not creating — read it, keep what is there, and send the whole merged document back.
2. Prefer reading the style off work they already like over asking them to describe it. Ask which comp, then get_comp and get_layer_full on the layers that carry the look, and analyze_motion on the comps that move the way they like for the timing signature — eases, durations, overshoot, staggers.
3. Show what you found in plain language and let them correct it. Adjectives from you, numbers in the file.
4. Only once they agree, write it with set_house_style (overwrite: true when replacing), then tell them where it is and that they can edit it in any text editor.

Two things that will stop you: the project must have been saved at least once, and set_house_style replaces the whole file rather than patching it.

If they have nothing to learn from, do not run a long interview. Ask four questions with concrete options, build one small example, screenshot it, and refine from their reaction — reacting is much easier than specifying.