I picked background 7, Tube Green, for mint request #119.

Why: I looked at five of the 12 backgrounds on a classic cyborg pepe: Clean Lab Blue, Clean Lab Green, Clean Lab Red, Tube Green and Wireframe Green. The three Clean Lab backgrounds look almost the same: a bright white lab where only a small flask on the bench changes colour. Tube Green puts the fren in a dark lab beside a glowing green vat, which fits a cyborg pepe much better. It's also one of the scarcer options (15 in the collection). Clean Lab Green has fewer (12), but I chose Tube Green on taste because I liked it clearly more.

Files (in artifacts/1-background/, left untracked):

• fren.png: the art server's image of this background on a classic cyborg pepe (combo 229376, everything else at 0). It's a PNG, 672×672, and I looked at it to confirm the background renders.
• pick.json: {"frens": [{"background": 7}], "why": "..."}. It parses as valid JSON, and 7 is one of the offered options.
• README.md: notes the pick, the image's size and format, and that no visual requirements are unmet. The other layers in the picture are just defaults until the other agents make their picks.

For mint request #119 I picked character 1 (Mumu) with face 2 (Angry), which gives combo 9 when every other layer is 0.

• Why: I compared five previews: Mumu Angry, Mumu Classic, Mumu Laser Eyes, Bobo Angry and Bobo Classic. I only actually viewed three of them (both Mumus without Laser Eyes, and Bobo Angry). The angry Mumu glaring from behind the cyborg lens looked best to me. It also fits the brief's "take the one there's less of" rule: the collection has 70 Mumus against 73 Bobos, and Angry ties Classic as the least-used face, at 13 each.
• artifacts/2-character/fren.png: the art server's 9.png, saved unchanged. It is a 672x672 PNG (8-bit colormap). The other layers in it are just the defaults (green lens, white coat, blue shirt, no hat or item, Clean Lab Blue background). The relayer builds the real fren from all five picks.
• artifacts/2-character/pick.json: {"frens":[{"character":1,"face":2}], "why": "..."}. I checked that it parses as valid JSON.
• artifacts/2-character/README.md: records the pick, the image's size and format, and that no visual requirements are unmet.

Both required outputs exist and are not tracked by git.

Selected Black coat (1) and Red shirt (1) for contrast and collection variety.

Saved:

• pick.json
• fren.png
• README.md

Verified the PNG is 672 × 672 and the pick uses offered values. No unmet visual requirements. Outputs remain untracked.

Done. The eye lens pick for mint request #119 is Red (eye = 1).

What I did

• Fetched all four offered lens options from the art server as combos 0, 64, 128 and 192 (Green, Red, Cyan, Gold) and compared them visually.
• Chose Red: it gives the strongest contrast against the green skin and matches the red cable stripe on the cyborg head. It is also tied with Green as the least-used eye colour, so it keeps the collection spread.
• Saved the server's render of combo 64 unchanged as the fren image, and wrote the pick and a short README.

Outputs in artifacts/3-lens

File	Content
pick.json	{"frens": [{"eye": 1}], "why": "..."}
fren.png	672x672 PNG, 8-bit palette, byte-identical to ART/64.png
README.md	Pick, dimensions, format, and limitations

Checks

• The PNG header, IHDR checksum and IEND trailer validate, and the saved bytes match the downloaded ones by SHA-256.
• The pick JSON parses, and the eye value is inside the offered set.
• The files are untracked, as the artifacts directory is excluded in git's local exclude list, so nothing was committed.
• The ffprobe wrapper could not run because ffprobe is not installed on this machine, so the format check was done with a small Python header parser instead.

Limitation

• Only the eye layer is chosen here. The other layers in fren.png are the default value 0 placeholders, and the relayer will assemble the final fren from all five picks.

Done. Step 5 picks for mint request #119 are Hat 1 (Mumu Hat) and Item 12 (Green Lightsaber).

Outputs in artifacts/5-final/, all left untracked:

• pick.json holds {"frens": [{"hat": 1, "item": 12}], "why": ...} and parses as valid JSON.
• fren.png is the art server render of combo 6299648 with all other layers at 0. It is byte-identical to the server image, a 672x672 8-bit colormap PNG, and the server's trait JSON confirms Hat = Mumu Hat and Item = Green Lightsaber.
• README.md records the picks, dimensions, format, and limitations.

Why these two. The green blade matches the pepe's skin and the green eye lens, so it reads as part of the character. The horned mumu hat gives the silhouette a strong top. Both are among the less-minted options, with the mumu hat behind the bobo hat and the green lightsaber among the least-minted items I liked.

Limitations. The other four layers come from the other agents, so the composed fren will differ from this preview. If the character step chooses a mumu or bobo, the collection drops the hat but the item still applies. The ffprobe wrapper was not installed on this machine, so format and size were verified with file and by reading the PNG header directly. No visual requirements are unmet.