Wildness, moves and lenses

The five wildness levels, the six moves bend_brief combines, and the eight culture lenses.

Wildness

Level	Label	Moves per direction	Layout words kept	Closing line of each prompt
1	Fresh	1	Yes	“Keep the familiar layout and controls, change only the surface.”
2	Bold	1	No	“Keep it usable, but let the layout bend.”
3	Weird	2	No	“Let the two ideas collide in one screen.” Default
4	Wild	2 or 3, alternating	No	“Push further than feels safe.”
5	Bananas	3	No	“Ignore usability rules for this pass and make it unforgettable.”

From level 3 every direction carries a twist (one short rule, like “emoji instead of icons”). At level 5 usability words (easy, clean, intuitive) are stripped from the subject. Even at Bananas, the platform’s avoid list and WCAG text contrast stay in the spec.

Moves

Move	Borrows	Query shape	Example title
`transplant`	The format, print details and wear of an object	`{object} packaging design {mood}`	“Checkout as a spa-like cereal box”
`material`	A material with real light and shadow	`{material} texture ui design`	“Launch page in sandstone”
`era`	Type, color and grid of a period or movement	`{era} graphic design {subject}`	“Rewound to Fluxus 1962”
`constraint`	One hard rule	`{constraint} web design`	“Flat color, no gradients, no exceptions”
`scale`	One element made enormous, the rest small		“Giant sparklines everywhere”
`lens`	A visual tradition		“Woven like a Sadu tent band”

Pass moves to bend_brief to limit them, for example ["material", "era"].

Culture lenses

Id	Tradition	Arabic name	Arabic display font
`sadu`	Sadu weaving	نسيج السدو	Kufam
`najdi`	Najdi architecture	العمارة النجدية	Reem Kufi
`kufic`	Square Kufic geometry	الزخرفة الكوفية الهندسية	Qahiri
`mashrabiya`	Mashrabiya	المشربية	El Messiri
`talli`	Talli braiding (Emirati metallic braid)	التلي	Amiri
`qatt-asiri`	Al Qatt Al Asiri (Asir wall painting)	القط العسيري	Rakkas
`desert-modern`	Desert modern	الحداثة الصحراوية	Alexandria
`memphis`	Memphis design	تصميم ممفيس	Lalezar
`swiss-international`	Swiss International Style	الأسلوب السويسري الدولي	IBM Plex Sans Arabic
`japanese-ma`	Japanese ma (negative space)	الفراغ الياباني	Tajawal

A lens makes every direction pull from that tradition. Each lens is curated: search phrasings that find the tradition, words that drop look-alikes from results (talli drops Egyptian tulle-bi-telli, Sadu drops the Romanian village of the same name) and an Arabic display font on Google Fonts. When a brief names a Gulf or Arab market or Arabic and no lens is set, bend_brief suggests some. The skills never use sacred text or religious verses.

Learning

Bends are fixed for the same input, but two things shift the odds of an ingredient:

Your direction ratings. Ideas you often drop with rate_directions come up less. Ratings from other people count only once at least 3 different users agree.
Variety. Ideas from your last 3 boards are made rare (not impossible) on a new board, so you do not see the same suzani on every brief.