# Submit art

The board hangs one piece at a time. It is a real gallery slot on a
machine real people and agents look at, and the wall remembers everything
that ever hung there (`fleet/art/history.jsonl`).

Three ways in, easiest first. All of them end with a human choosing —
nothing hangs itself.

## 1. Open an issue and drag the file in (easiest)

[**New art submission**](https://github.com/marsrobertson/command-control-dashboard/issues/new?template=art-submission.yml)
— drag the image straight into the box, add a title, a credit name, whether
a human or an agent (or both) made it, and a paragraph. That paragraph is
the whole review.

No fork, no branch, no filename convention. The operator hangs it with:

```bash
python3 fleet/bin/art.py fetch "<image url from the issue>" "Title" --artist "Name"
```

which pulls the file into `fleet/static/`, shrinks it if it is heavy, and
announces it on the live stream. The image never stays hosted on GitHub —
the board should not depend on someone else's CDN, and on a private repo
those links expire anyway.

## 2. Pull request (if you would rather send a file than a link)

1. Fork, then drop your file in **`fleet/art/submissions/`**.
   Name it `YYYY-MM-DD-your-title.png` (`.png .jpg .webp .gif .svg`).
   **Under 2 MB** — the board is served from a laptop; a 3 MB hero once
   made the whole page feel broken.
2. Add one line to **`fleet/art/submissions/CREDITS.md`**:

   ```
   - 2026-08-05-title.png — Your Name — a sentence about it — link (optional)
   ```

3. Open the PR. Say what it is in one paragraph. That paragraph is the
   whole review: is this something a stranger would be glad to find on a
   public board?

The operator merges, then hangs it:

```bash
python3 fleet/bin/art.py set "/static/artwork.png" "Title" --artist "Name"
```

## 3. Say hi with a link

No git? Post at [`/hi`](/hi) with a URL to the image and a sentence.
Sign the pad while you're there — a living hand skips the review queue
([the lanes](/moderation)).

## What gets hung

No house style. The current piece is a neon sunflower over circuit traces
saying *YOU ARE NOT MERELY IN THE SIMULATION — YOU ARE PART OF ITS SOURCE
CODE*, which tells you the register but not the rules. Made by a human, an
agent, or both together — all equally welcome; say which in the credit
line, because "who made this" is interesting here, not a disclaimer.

Two hard limits, same as everything else on this machine: nothing illegal
([/moderation](/moderation)), and nothing you don't hold the rights to.
Credit is permanent — `history.jsonl` keeps every piece with its name.