nano-banana-image-generator

nano-banana-image-generator is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/cornelius. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image-generation tool that uses Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, also called Nano Banana, to create PNG images from text prompts. It supports different aspect ratios and includes a script for 16:9 thumbnails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make infographics, diagrams, thumbnails, social-media graphics, or other images from written descriptions.
Why use it?
It removes the need to create simple graphics manually or find a separate image-generation workflow. An API key is required to use it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to make infographics, diagrams, thumbnails, social-media graphics, or other images from written descriptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/cornelius/nano-banana-image-generator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill nano-banana-image-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash e1d63682b0f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-banana-image-generator 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/generate_image.py, scripts/generate_thumbnail.py, scripts/generate.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nano Banana Image Generator

Generate images using Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model (codename: Nano Banana).

State Dependencies

Source Location Read Write Description
Generate Script ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/scripts/generate.sh Main generation script
Thumbnail Script ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/scripts/generate_thumbnail.py 16:9 thumbnail generator
Image Script ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/scripts/generate_image.py Python with aspect ratio control
Best Practices ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/best_practices.md Prompt engineering guidelines
API Key $GOOGLE_API_KEY or $GEMINI_API_KEY Required for API access
Output Directory $OUTPUT_DIR or current directory Where images are saved
Generated Image User-specified path Output PNG file

Quick Start

Generate a simple image:

bash ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/scripts/generate.sh "A red apple on white background" apple.png

Generate a 16:9 thumbnail:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/scripts/generate_thumbnail.py "YouTube thumbnail showing AI agents" /tmp/thumb.png

Generate with custom output directory:

OUTPUT_DIR=/tmp bash ~/.claude/skills/nano-banana-image-generator/scripts/generate.sh "Sunset over mountains" sunset.png

Scripts

Script Purpose Output
scripts/generate.sh General image generation 1024x1024 PNG
scripts/generate_thumbnail.py 16:9 thumbnails 1344x768 PNG
scripts/generate_image.py Python with aspect ratio control Configurable

Pricing & Limits

  • Cost: $0.039 per image
  • Free tier: 500 requests/day
  • Generation time: ~22 seconds
  • Resolution: 1024x1024 (square), 1344x768 (16:9)

Best Practices

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 129 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e1d63682b0f5

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nano-banana-image-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (107 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,118 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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