This is the foundation layer you'll want whenever you're working with SpriteCook's MCP tools for sprite generation or animation. It enforces smart defaults like using tightest smart crop mode, keeps your API keys out of chat and code blocks, and maintains a local asset manifest so you're not regenerating the same character reference three times because you lost the asset ID. The preflight checklist is solid: check credits before batch jobs, prefer presigned URLs, save asset IDs to a JSON manifest. It also handles recovery when things go sideways by pulling recent assets instead of failing. Think of it as the shared workflow brain that sits underneath the actual generation skills and keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot.
npx skills add https://github.com/spritecook/skills --skill spritecook-workflow-essentials