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+# Image Prompts — The Morning Brief
+
+Blog post: `2026-05-27-the-morning-brief.md`  
+Style: Watercolor, pink-haired woman, PNW settings, SDXL/Stable Diffusion  
+Output filenames and target locations listed per prompt.
+
+---
+
+## Image 01 — Morning Command
+
+**File:** `image-01-morning-command.png`  
+**Placement:** After the opening section, before "Why an RSS Reader and a Language Model Don't Solve This"  
+**Alt text:** A pink-haired woman at her laptop before dawn, one command already typed, coffee steam rising in the blue morning light
+
+**SDXL Prompt:**
+```
+Watercolor illustration of a pink-haired woman sitting at a wooden desk in the blue-gray light just before dawn, a single terminal window glowing on her open laptop screen, steam rising from a ceramic coffee mug beside her, soft fog visible through a rain-streaked window behind her, loose expressive brushwork, cool blue-gray dawn palette with warm amber from the screen glow, Pacific Northwest early morning atmosphere, high quality watercolor on textured paper, artistic impressionist style
+```
+
+**Negative prompt:**
+```
+photorealistic, 3d render, cartoon, anime, harsh lighting, cluttered background, multiple people
+```
+
+**Caption:** *The fog outside hasn't lifted yet, but the brief is already running — that's the whole point of building this.*
+
+---
+
+## Image 02 — Tributaries
+
+**File:** `image-02-tributaries.png`  
+**Placement:** After the "Anatomy of the Three-Layer System" section mermaid diagram  
+**Alt text:** Multiple data streams converging into a single channel, a pink-haired woman observing the confluence from a rocky bank
+
+**SDXL Prompt:**
+```
+Watercolor illustration of a pink-haired woman standing on mossy rocks at the confluence of several rivers flowing together into a single wide channel, she holds a clipboard and looks downstream toward where the streams merge into one, cool blue-greens and slate grays, misty Pacific Northwest river valley atmosphere, old-growth forest in the background, loose impressionist watercolor brushwork, expressive and slightly abstract, high quality watercolor on textured paper
+```
+
+**Negative prompt:**
+```
+photorealistic, 3d render, cartoon, anime, harsh lighting, urban background, multiple people
+```
+
+**Caption:** *Fourteen tributaries, one river — the value isn't in any individual source, it's in what you can see when they flow together.*
+
+---
+
+## Image 03 — Instruments
+
+**File:** `image-03-instruments.png`  
+**Placement:** After the "Walking Through Four Sources" section (after the Carry-forward subsection)  
+**Alt text:** A pink-haired woman reads one of many monitoring instruments carefully while others glow behind her
+
+**SDXL Prompt:**
+```
+Watercolor illustration of a pink-haired woman standing in front of a large wooden instrument panel with 14 different gauges, analog dials, and small glowing screens arranged in rows, each showing a different measurement or reading, she leans forward and examines one gauge closely while the others are visible behind her, warm amber interior workshop lighting, Pacific Northwest observatory or naturalist's workshop aesthetic, rich wood tones and brass details, watercolor impressionist technique with textured paper effect, high quality fine art watercolor
+```
+
+**Negative prompt:**
+```
+photorealistic, 3d render, cartoon, anime, modern tech aesthetic, sterile lab setting, multiple people
+```
+
+**Caption:** *Each source is a different instrument measuring a different thing — staleness, velocity, anomaly, state.*
+
+---
+
+## Image 04 — Broken Table
+
+**File:** `image-04-broken-table.png`  
+**Placement:** After "The Day It Broke" section, before "How the Agents Fixed Their Own Tooling"  
+**Alt text:** A pink-haired woman frowns at a printed data table with an obviously blank column
+
+**SDXL Prompt:**
+```
+Watercolor illustration of a pink-haired woman sitting at a rustic kitchen table on a rainy morning, she holds a printed data report in front of her and studies it closely with a slight frown, one column in the visible table is clearly blank while the others have text, she holds a pencil in her other hand, soft diffused rainy-day light coming through a large window with rain drops on the glass, Pacific Northwest cozy domestic morning atmosphere, warm interior tones against gray exterior light, loose watercolor technique with paper texture
+```
+
+**Negative prompt:**
+```
+photorealistic, 3d render, cartoon, anime, bright sunny day, multiple people, digital screen
+```
+
+**Caption:** *Empty cells that should contain data are more alarming than error messages — at least errors tell you something is wrong.*
+
+---
+
+## Image 05 — Repair Crew
+
+**File:** `image-05-repair-crew.png`  
+**Placement:** After the self-repair mermaid diagram, before "The 8-Agent Review Cycle"  
+**Alt text:** A small team of figures repairs a system in a forest clearing at dusk, a pink-haired woman coordinates at the center
+
+**SDXL Prompt:**
+```
+Watercolor illustration of a small team of four or five diverse figures working together in a mossy Pacific Northwest forest clearing at dusk, a pink-haired woman stands at the center reviewing a glowing schematic or blueprint on a large piece of paper, the others around her hold tools and notebooks and point at different sections of the blueprint, old-growth cedar and fir trees tower in the background, warm golden lantern light illuminates the group against the deepening blue-purple dusk sky, collaborative and purposeful atmosphere, watercolor loose impressionist style with soft atmospheric edges and paper texture, fine art quality
+```
+
+**Negative prompt:**
+```
+photorealistic, 3d render, cartoon, anime, urban setting, bright daylight, solo figure, robots
+```
+
+**Caption:** *The agents fix what they own — not because they were told to fix exactly that, but because the diagnostic path was clear and they followed it further than I did.*