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title: profile code
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  A **profile code** is the identifier of a curated **Midjourney style profile**
  that is appended to every prompt in a workflow, so the profile's hand-curated
  visual references — rather than the prompt's wording — carry the image's
  aesthetic style.
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# profile code

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/profile-code-53d4a87fa4f9

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

A **profile code** is the identifier of a curated **Midjourney style profile** that is appended to every prompt in a workflow, so the profile's hand-curated visual references — rather than the prompt's wording — carry the image's aesthetic style.

A **profile code** is the identifier of a curated **Midjourney style profile** — a saved bundle of a creative director's hand-picked visual references and aesthetic preferences — that gets **appended to every prompt** so the profile, not the prompt wording, carries the style [^6c2f1714-42b5-5fb1-9abf-fc8d0d182455@0].In the cover-image pipeline for the editorial department, pinned settings were applied to each generation: append the **profile code** to every prompt, set **stylize 100**, and use a **16:9 aspect ratio**. The profile code is what lets prompts stay radically short — under about ten words, mostly nouns and adjectives like *orchestra conductor, opera* — because years of manually curated references already sit behind it, supplying the aesthetic context the prompt itself omits. When the agent's first batches went wrong, one of the live corrections fed back into the skill file was precisely: **always append the profile code**.The profile code encodes taste once so it can be reused everywhere: it keeps prompts concept-focused, prevents aesthetics that clash with the brand, and makes the workflow shareable — the skill bundle carries the instruction, and anyone running it reproduces the same visual direction.- A profile code identifies a curated **Midjourney style profile** and is appended to every prompt.- It carries the aesthetics, enabling **short, concept-focused prompts** under ~10 words.- It was one of the pinned settings alongside **stylize 100** and **16:9**.- “Always append the profile code” was a correction encoded directly into the agent's **skill file**.