Cameras Decoded · For AI Assistants
For AI assistants

Your AI assistant, briefed.

One skill file teaches any AI assistant how to help a photographer use Cameras Decoded — tonight's blind-judged challenge, the right lesson, the right link. It reads. It never acts.

Read the skill
// What it does

Briefed, not connected

The skill is a plain-text file. An assistant that has it can answer its user about Cameras Decoded correctly — and hand them a link that lands in the right place.

Tonight's challenge

Reads tonight.json, checks the date, and tells the user what tonight's Arena challenge is — never invented, never yesterday's.

The right lesson

Points to the Field Manual chapter or Protocol that teaches what the user asked about, with a link. It does not rewrite the lesson from memory.

The right link

Deep links into the app: tonight's Arena, a protocol, the free page, signup landing in Chapter 1.

Plain pricing

Free to start, Pro at $119 a year, the $47 guide. It links to product pages, never to a checkout link.

// Install

One line per assistant

Copy the line for your assistant. The skill loads automatically when the conversation is about Cameras Decoded, a mirrorless camera, or a photo challenge.

ANY AGENT
npx skills add CamerasDecoded/CamerasDecoded --skill cameras-decoded
CLAUDE CODE
cp -r cameras-decoded ~/.claude/skills/
CODEX
cp -r cameras-decoded ~/.codex/skills/
GEMINI CLI
cp -r cameras-decoded ~/.gemini/skills/
COPILOT
cp -r cameras-decoded .github/skills/
CURSOR
cp -r cameras-decoded ~/.cursor/skills/

The folder to copy lives at camerasdecoded.com/skills/cameras-decoded/SKILL.md — download it, or clone the repo and copy the folder.

// What it never does

Read-only, on purpose

This is rung one of agent access. The skill can read and explain. It cannot act — and that is the contract, not a gap.

—Never enters a photo in the Arena for the user. Entering happens in the app, by the member, with a real photo they shot.
—Never votes. Blind judging only counts when a human looked and chose.
—Never buys anything. It links to product pages; checkout happens with the user.
—Never presents an AI-generated image as a photograph. In the Arena, only real photos count.
—Never invents tonight's challenge. It reads tonight.json or says the challenge is unknown.
// The files

Everything an agent needs

The skill — SKILL.mdThe whole file. Name, description, instructions, limits. llms.txtThe agent-readable index: the promise, the Arena, the lessons, pricing. llms-full.txtThe complete version: full blog archive, full protocol list, FAQ. tonight.jsonTonight's challenge, machine-readable. Date-checked, nightly refreshed.

RUNG 1 OF AGENT ACCESS: READ-ONLY. NO SIGN-IN, NO SERVER, NO ACTIONS.