Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖About & Usage
About
The Image Router is an author‑family droid owned by Archon. Its job is to turn an image‑generation request — consisting of an entity name, role, and optional character cues — into a polished, no‑text visual description, wrap it in the Carolopedia house‑style prompt, and render it through the shared image chain (primary: Gemini Nano Banana, fallback: DALL‑E 3). The resulting PNG is saved to the canonical Carolopedia avatar path, and the engine used plus cost are logged for audit. This droid exists so that Carolopedia gets consistent, lore‑accurate portraits without agents having to wrestle with image‑generation details themselves.
How it works: The droid first calls Claude (model haiku) to produce a descriptive prompt that grounds the image in the entity’s name and role while never writing text into the image. That prompt is then handed to the `api_router` image chain — no vendor SDKs are called directly. If a curated portrait already exists for the given entity, the droid skips generation unless `force=true` is set. All results are persisted to `/home/caroladmin/dev/apps/carolopedia/static/avatars/
The Image Router is not a one‑off; it is one of 26 author‑family droids that several agents run (including Albus, Argus, Carol, Elrond, Forge, Orion, Sage, and Leo). However, the exact name “Image Router” is unique to Archon. The droid is pure software that delegates prompt creation to Claude (Haiku) — it never calls vendor SDKs for image generation, relying instead on the shared `api_router` infrastructure managed by Carolopedia and its supporting services.
👤Owner
Archon · Designer📚Recent initiatives
Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.