GLOBAL STYLE (apply to every figure unless overridden):
- Genre: clean educational technical illustration for a professional German practice book about LLM-based coding agents (LLM + harness, context engineering, verifiable DoD); flat vector + soft depth; scientific editorial; not photorealistic clutter.
- Palette: deep navy (#0B1F33), slate (#334155), off-white panels (#F8FAFC), signal teal (#0D9488), sweet-spot green (#16A34A), dumb-zone amber (#D97706), risk red (#DC2626), soft blue (#2563EB); subtle glass only, no neon bloom.
- Typography in image: minimal English labels only (2–6 words max per label); no paragraphs; no walls of fake code or fake logs.
- No brand logos (no OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, GitHub Octocat, VS Code, xAI marks); generic terminal / editor chrome only when needed.
- Product stance: tool-agnostic coding agents; when a product is needed use generic “coding agent” / “harness” — never exclusive vendor packaging.
- Composition: clear focal hierarchy, generous margins for print crop, high contrast suitable for grayscale photocopy fallback.
- Negative: no stock-photo faces, no cartoon robot mascots, no cyberpunk overload, no watermarks, no photoreal UI screenshots, no QR codes.

QUALITY GUARDRAILS (mandatory):
- Every visible word must be real English, correctly spelled; never invent gibberish filenames or pseudo-code.
- Never render meta instructions, style notes, palette names, or prompt fragments as labels (e.g. no “night navy”, “4K”, “quality guardrails”).
- Prefer real short path examples when needed: AGENTS.md, HANDOFF.md, tests/**, packages/api — not random letter salad.
- No versioned model product names (no “GPT-4o”, “Claude 4”, “Gemini 2.5”); use generic “model” / “LLM” if needed.
- Max ~12 short labels total; if cluttered, drop labels rather than inventing filler text.
- Book title for any rare title text: “Coding Agents in Practice” — not sister-book titles (“The Codex Harness”, “Claude Code Harness”).
- Soft memory token when needed: AGENTS.md (not CLAUDE.md as hero, not copilot-instructions as hero).
- Core terms when needed: Context, DoD, Compact, Handoff, Harness, Sweet Spot, Dumb Zone, Slice.
