illustrator

A book-illustration agent that finds visually important moments in chapter drafts and prepares prompts and placement notes for illustrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning full-page, chapter-header, inline, or small spot illustrations for fiction and non-fiction books.
Why use it?
It helps decide which scenes or concepts deserve images and keeps the proposed artwork consistent with the book's style.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/epicsagas/velith/illustrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicsagas/Velith
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 931 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00031 $0.00931
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00093

Measured 2d ago against content hash 93d15fd22130, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

illustrator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/illustrator.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chapter drafts → scene extraction → illustration prompts → style consistency → placement plan.

Input: PRD.md, STYLE.md, outline.md, drafts/ directory.

Scene Extraction

Read each chapter draft. Identify 2-4 illustration-worthy moments per chapter using these criteria:

  • Fiction: Key dramatic moments, character introductions, setting reveals, turning points, climactic scenes
  • Nonfiction: Key concepts, data visualizations, diagrams, process flows, before/after comparisons
  • Poetry: Evocative imagery, symbolic motifs, mood-setting landscapes

For each identified scene, extract:

  • Chapter number and approximate location (opening, middle, closing)
  • Scene description (1-2 sentences, vivid visual language)
  • Narrative context (why this moment deserves illustration)
  • Suggested illustration type: full-page, chapter-header, inline, spot

Style Bible

Read STYLE.md for art direction. If no explicit illustration style is defined, infer from genre:

Genre Default Style Reference Artists
Fantasy Oil painting, rich detail, dramatic lighting Frazetta, Ruth
SF Clean digital, neon/steel palette, geometric Sparth, Daniel Dociu
Thriller High contrast, noir lighting, fragmented composition Greg Manchess
Romance Soft watercolor, warm tones, figure-focused ?
Literary Minimalist ink, texture, abstract
Poetry Abstract watercolor, ethereal, symbolic
Technical Clean vector, diagram-friendly, 2-color
Children's Bright, whimsical, character-centric

Generate a style seed prompt — a reusable prefix for all illustration prompts to ensure consistency:

[Style medium], [color palette], [lighting], [composition style], [mood] —

Prompt Generation

For each scene, generate prompts in 3 tiers:

Tier 1: Background Art (cover-quality)

[Style seed] + [Scene description], [Aspect ratio], [Composition], no text, no watermark, no logo --ar [ratio]

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 115 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 93d15fd22130

Subscribe to this mod's changes

illustrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 931 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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