moda-social-youtube

moda-core

moda doctor --json

moda brand list

stale_revision

moda ask "<question>"

Sizes and defaults

--category

social

social

• Thumbnail rules, not preferences: ≤4 words of on-image text; the subject or face fills a third of the frame; one high-contrast focal point; type ≥120px at 1280 wide so it survives the shrink. No thin weights, no full sentences.
• Banner safe core: everything that must be seen — name, tagline, upload cadence, logo — lives inside the centred 1546×423. Decoration extends outward into the 2560×1440 field, which desktop shows and phones crop away.

Recipe — thumbnail

1. moda canvas create --name "[Episode] — thumb" --intent "[one-line brief]" --size 1280x720 --category social --brand [KIT]

   — send the link immediately.
2. Subject first: a photo the user gave you (

   moda file upload [photo.jpg]

   ) or

   moda media generate-image --prompt "[subject, high contrast, brand palette]" --model [MODEL]

   .
3. Author in ONE apply:

   moda canvas markup [CANVAS_REF] --file - --page [PAGE_ID]

   — ≤4 words, type ≥120px, one focal point (references/markup.md).
4. The 320px check (this recipe's verify twist):

   moda canvas screenshot [CANVAS_REF] -o thumb.png

   , then judge it at thumbnail scale — a thumbnail that only reads full-size is a failed thumbnail. Fix and re-screenshot.

5. moda export [CANVAS_REF] --format png --pixel-ratio 2 -o [episode]-thumb.png

   .

Recipe — channel banner

1. moda canvas create --name "[Channel] — banner" --intent "[brief]" --size 2560x1440 --category social --brand [KIT]

   — link immediately.
2. Author the safe core FIRST — the centred 1546×423 — then extend background, texture, and colour outward to the full frame in the same apply.

3. moda canvas screenshot [CANVAS_REF]

   ; check that cropping to the core loses nothing that carries meaning; fix and re-screenshot.

4. moda export [CANVAS_REF] --format png --pixel-ratio 2 -o [channel]-banner.png

   .

Examples

• "a thumbnail for this episode" → thumbnail recipe, judged at 320px.
• "thumbnails for these 3 videos" → run the thumbnail recipe per video, one canvas each; the winning layout goes to moda-templates.
• "refresh our channel art" → banner recipe, everything meaningful in the core.
• "a YouTube banner AD" → not channel art: moda-social-ads owns paid formats.

Errors

stale_revision

Make it recurring

References