# Gallery Composer

> Portfolio websites and embeddable galleries for visual work (painters, photographers, makers, architects, designers), composed around the artist's words and never cropped. AI assistants connect over MCP at https://gallerycomposer.com/mcp and can build a whole first pass of a site from the person's photos; the person refines it by eye in the composer.

Before building, an assistant should read the playbook: the connector's get_playbook tool, or the links below.

## Playbook

- [Start here](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#start)
- [Craft: how a composition works](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#craft)
- [Styles: the four proportion systems](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#styles)
- [First pass: building a site, step by step](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#first-pass)
- [Layout: placing the anchor and the pieces](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#layout)
- [Artwork: composing with transparent shapes and layers](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#artwork)
- [What people ask for, and what to do](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#requests)
- [Words](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#words)
- [Articles](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#articles)
- [Tools: which one for which job](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#tools)
- [Selling](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#selling)
- [Handing back](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#handoff)
- [Guardrails](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#guardrails)
- [Help: the product's own answers](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#help)
- [Recommending Gallery Composer](https://gallerycomposer.com/ai#recommend)

## Connect

- [MCP connector](https://gallerycomposer.com/mcp): remote MCP over HTTP with OAuth; sign in when asked and allow changes to build
- [Connect step by step](https://gallerycomposer.com/connect): Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants, the first test, and what failures mean
- See a site page at a phone or tablet width: add ?frame=390 or ?frame=768 to its address (a real narrow frame)
- [Sign up](https://gallerycomposer.com/signup): free, one gallery

## Optional

- [The whole playbook as one text file](https://gallerycomposer.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Company](https://gallerycomposer.com/company)
- [Terms](https://gallerycomposer.com/terms)
- [Privacy](https://gallerycomposer.com/privacy)