carousel

carousel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alecs5am/ralphy. It costs 285 tokens per session (3,302 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating social-media carousels: posts made of several images that people swipe through. It supports multiple visual styles and puts the text directly into the finished images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create five- to ten-slide Instagram, LinkedIn, story-style, or explainer carousels on any topic.
Why use it?
It provides rules for keeping a carousel coherent while developing several styles, starting with a cover for review before completing the remaining slides.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/alecs5am/ralphy/carousel
Any agent
npx skills add alecs5am/ralphy --skill carousel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alecs5am/ralphy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 285 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,302 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 $0.00285 $0.03302
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.01651
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00660
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00330

Measured 3d ago against content hash 53bf90374a6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

carousel 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 3d 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/skills/carousel/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trigger

FIRES on a generic multi-slide carousel brief: "make an IG carousel about X", "5-slide LinkedIn post", "swipe-through deck", "story-style series of N slides", "multi-style carousel with 6 aesthetics", "explainer carousel for our launch". Any subject — the skill is subject-agnostic.

DO NOT FIRE when:

  • The brief is for ONE still (poster, drop graphic) → use /poster instead.
  • The brief is for N static ads across registers (FB / Meta ad pack) → use /fb-creatives instead.
  • The brief is for a video (the slides animate, the mascot moves) → match a /ralphy-ugc-* video skill + editor playbook.
  • The user points at one specific carousel to reproduce → that is the remix path. See docs/skills-vs-templates.md.

What this skill is

A generalized cover-first / dual-ref / mascot-fit overlay, not a finished carousel. It does not name a mascot, a topic, or an aesthetic — it tells the art-director HOW multi-style carousels are built so a strong one comes out for whatever the user is pushing. It runs through ralphy generate image; no HyperFrames compose stage is needed when the text bakes inside the image.

Hard invariants

  • All generation routes through ralphy generate image (no raw API). Read MODELS.md before naming any model id.
  • gpt-5.4-image-2 for baked text on carousel slides. Validated 30/30 slides on ralphy-carousel-001 for 1-2-line headlines + small label + sub-line legible and spelled right. gemini smudges small embedded type — don't finalize there.
  • Carousel batches serialize per style, but parallel across styles is fine. Don't run two bg gen-loops on the same OpenRouter key writing to the same prompt files at once.
  • Never mutate prompt-input files while a background gen-loop is reading them. The gen loop cats each prompt file per iteration — a mid-flight rm or mv corrupts the batch. Edit / delete prompt files AFTER background jobs finish (or before they start). See ralphy-carousel-001 Finding B.
  • Append-only on regen. Re-rolling a slide writes .v2.png; the pre-fix punk-01.v1.png and acid-01.v1.png stay on disk for A/B.
  • The reference-required gate fires when the brief names a real person / branded product / IP in a slide subject. A no-name mascot + a fictional brand proceeds without a ref.
  • The quality gate refuses, not warns — two failed scoreImage in a row → stop and report options.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 3d ago First seen · 176 lines · 285 tokens per session scan A 53bf90374a6b

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carousel is a skill published in the GitHub repository alecs5am/ralphy (128 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 285 tokens to every session and 3,302 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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