visual-review-board
visual-review-board
Photos in the trip issue body are how the family decides whether they're excited about a destination. Bad photos are worse than no photos. This skill encodes what we learned from the #41–#68 incident.
The lesson — what went wrong before
#42–#66 (initial draft): every Kansas issue used the same NPS Midwest Region homepage banner. Every Louisiana issue used the same NPS Atlantic Region homepage banner. The Florida set reused a Henderson_Beach_State_Park_4 photo even on issues for Destin and 30A. The repetition made the issues unconvincing — six different Kansas destinations all visually identical.
Root causes:
- The original draft used
nps.gov/common/uploads/banner_image/<region>/homepage/<hash>.jpgURLs, which are the NPS regional homepage banners — not destination photos. These are intentionally generic. - Photos were chosen by URL pattern, not by what the photo actually depicts.
#68 (Switzerland, second attempt): A research subagent reported "all 5 photos verified 200" but two of them returned 400 when re-checked. The agent constructed Wikimedia thumb URLs by hand using the wrong width segment (800px- when the actual cached size for those files was 960px-).
Root cause: Hand-constructing Wikimedia thumbnail URLs assumes you know which widths the cache serves for that specific file. You don't.