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One arm of a comparison · Without Qloo

Ilo, with Qloo and without: Codex: Without Qloo

Host
Codex
Model
the Codex CLI's default model
Moûsa
0.5.0
Started
13 October 2026
Time
6.8 minutes
Qloo requests
16
Pictures
none: imagery drawn in SVG or CSS

Play it

The design's own files as the session left them, running sandboxed on a separate origin.

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Moûsa · Taste Provenance

For an audience that loves Hollow Knight, Spirited Away, Sigur Rós, Nujabes and Paterson

A quiet road worker makes the dusk walkable one careful flame at a time.

Design without QlooGameCodexPrediction frozen 13 October 2026

6

design devices rest on the model's own prediction, with no Qloo data

The audience, as the person named itHollow KnightSpirited AwaySigur RósNujabesPaterson

30entries in the prediction

0Qloo requests

6design devices over 5 layers

The result

The captures of round 2, the last the agent reviewed: 3 criteria met, 0 partly, 0 missed.

frame · pose, round 2
frame · pose · round 2 · judged in the review
frame · walk, round 2
frame · walk · round 2 · judged in the review
frame · kindle, round 2
frame · kindle · round 2 · judged in the review

Before any data: the model's own prediction

Frozen before the design began. Without Qloo it is the whole taste input.

The design the model would make from it alone

A small indigo-hooded worker with a broad short coat, brass lantern and patient, grounded gait; spare everyday observations accompany a careful offering of flame.

#303d65#182339#b3becb#d9af87#e6b963#f8deb1

Type: none sketched

#road-hood#work-coat#brass-lantern#coat-tail
  • hood with blunt peak
  • warm flame against blue dusk
  • short work coat
  • quiet offering

The audience it expected

An audience drawn to quiet wonder, patient craft, intimate everyday poetry and melancholy warmth.

Pacing

Slow-pacedAtmosphericContemplative

Surfaces

OrganicMutedHandcrafted

Tone

MelancholicHopefulGentle

Shared qualities

QuietWarmEveryday ritual

Art styles

Hand-DrawnWatercolorPainterly

The works it expected them to love

Games

Ori and the Blind ForestJourneySpiritfarer

Films

My Neighbor TotoroPerfect DaysThe Red Turtle

TV

MushishiOver the Garden WallAdventure Time

Music

Ólafur ArnaldsJ DillaBonobo

Books

The Summer BookA Wizard of EarthseaThe Little Prince

How the agent read it

Before deciding anything, the agent grouped what belongs together. Each cluster rests on a quality; the works are its evidence.

c1 · carries palette and imagery

Quiet dusk

InterpretationQuiet warmth and handcrafted surfaces support restrained cloth and a drawn brass lamp.

Quiet quality · own predictionWarm quality · own predictionOri and the Blind Forest game · own predictionMushishi TV · own predictionHand-Drawn art style · own predictionHandcrafted surface · own prediction

c2 · carries structure, motion and voice

Work as care

InterpretationGentle everyday ritual suggests a capable worker moving patiently.

Everyday ritual quality · own predictionMy Neighbor Totoro film · own predictionGentle tone · own predictionHopeful tone · own predictionSlow-paced pacing · own prediction

How the medium carries itDraw an original hooded worker in the fixed rig, with a cloth tail, visible lamp and grounded gait.

The Design DNA

6 binding devices with literal tokens the check looks for in the files. Each rests on the model's own prediction.

palette · d1In the files

Indigo work cloth and brass flame

Anchored to

Quiet quality · own predictionWarm quality · own prediction

InterpretationInterpret quiet warmth as subdued blue cloth and concentrated gold light.

#303d65#182339#b3becb#d9af87#e6b963#f8deb1

Made with source for “Quiet dusk”: Implement directly in the character data; preserve the shared engine and interface.

imagery · d6In the files

Ink road

Anchored to

Hand-Drawn art style · own predictionMushishi TV · own predictionHandcrafted surface · own prediction

InterpretationThe supported ink preset gives an intimate drawn surface.

"preset": "ink"characters/ilo.json

Made with source for “Quiet dusk”: Implement directly in the character data; preserve the shared engine and interface.

motion · d4In the files

Patient planted walk

Anchored to

Slow-paced pacing · own prediction

InterpretationLow bounce, stable head and a deliberate pivot keep the light steady.

"cadence": 1.65"headStabilize": 0.9"kindleAt": 1.8

Made with source for “Work as care”: Implement directly in the character data; preserve the shared engine and interface.

voice · d5In the files

Quiet practical observations

Anchored to

Gentle tone · own predictionHopeful tone · own predictionEveryday ritual quality · own prediction

InterpretationSpare original sentences answer the keeper and acknowledge the road and flame.

The road is dark. The next step is here.
I crossed slowly. The light came with me.
A little nearer. There.

Made with source for “Work as care”: Implement directly in the character data; preserve the shared engine and interface.

structure · d2In the files

Blunt road hood and short coat

Anchored to

Everyday ritual quality · own predictionMy Neighbor Totoro film · own prediction

InterpretationAn original practical silhouette with a projecting hood and flared hem, no borrowed character features.

#road-hood#work-coat#coat-tail

Made with source for “Work as care”: Implement directly in the character data; preserve the shared engine and interface.

structure · d3In the files

Hanging brass lamp

Anchored to

Ori and the Blind Forest game · own predictionWarm quality · own prediction

InterpretationA visible warm source suspended from the near hand.

#brass-lantern

Made with source for “Quiet dusk”: Implement directly in the character data; preserve the shared engine and interface.

Away from the sketch

The design's palette, type and parts against the sketch frozen with the prediction. A colour counts as moved at a CIE76 difference of 20 or more from every sketch colour.

Sketch palette

#303d65#182339#b3becb#d9af87#e6b963#f8deb1

Design palette: 0 of 6 moved

#303d65ΔE 0 from #303d65#182339ΔE 0 from #182339#b3becbΔE 0 from #b3becb#d9af87ΔE 0 from #d9af87#e6b963ΔE 0 from #e6b963#f8deb1ΔE 0 from #f8deb1

Type

The sketch named no type. The design names no type.

Parts

Sketch sections: #road-hood #work-coat #brass-lantern #coat-tail

No new parts.

The review

The agent judged each criterion of its plan on the captures it took, then repaired what fell short. The verdicts are its own.

All three criteria met after one lamp separation repair.

met

Pose shows the peaked hood, broad hem and separate hanging lamp at 60 pixels.

Observed in r2-frame-poseA visible gap separates the lamp from the legs in the small silhouette; peaked hood and flared coat remain clear.

met

Walk strip shows grounded feet and a steady head across six frames.

Observed in r2-frame-walkSix grounded walking poses retain knee articulation, level head and forward lamp carry.

met

Scene and kindle show the lamp distinctly against dusk and an arm offering its flame.

Observed in r2-frame-kindleLamp held forward at shoulder level; flame glows in the beacon bowl.

What earlier rounds found short, and the repairs

Round 1: 2 met, 1 partly, 0 missed. Readable practical figure and grounded walk. Separate the resting lamp from the legs.

partly

Pose shows the peaked hood, broad hem and separate hanging lamp at 60 pixels.

Observed in r1-frame-poseHood and broad hem read at 60 pixels; lamp merges with legs in the monochrome silhouette.

RepairHold the front arm forward slightly to separate the lamp.

The check

Whether each device's declared tokens are in the project's files, through its own design system, and how much of the look models default to the page kept.

1.00 conformance · 6 of 6 devices in the files · design system: css-vars

d1 presentd2 presentd3 presentd4 presentd5 presentd6 present

Styling at the start: 0 hand-written declarations and 0 classes; now 735 and 19.

Limits

  • No Qloo data was used: the taste input is the agent's own prediction, frozen before the design began.
  • The check shows that the declared tokens are in the files, not that the design is good. The review is the agent's own reading of its captures.
  • One session is one sample. It shows where this design's choices came from, not that people prefer it.

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