avenox-thumbnail

avenox-thumbnail is a skill for Codex from avenoxai/avenoxskills. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,289 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating YouTube thumbnails around a consistent channel mascot. It generates thumbnail options with the mascot as the channel identity and applies rules for readable, anonymous designs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create new thumbnails, cover images, or alternative thumbnail versions for videos featuring the mascot.
Why use it?
It helps keep thumbnails visually consistent without showing the creator’s face or name, while checking that the main idea is clear at small size.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to create new thumbnails, cover images, or alternative thumbnail versions for videos featuring the mascot.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avenoxai/avenoxskills/avenox-thumbnail
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.

Any agent
npx skills add avenoxai/avenoxskills --skill avenox-thumbnail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avenoxai/avenoxskills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,289 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.
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 $0.00102 $0.01289
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00645
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00129

Measured 9d ago against content hash ceadbc2e0fe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

avenox-thumbnail 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 9d 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.

skills/avenox-thumbnail/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thumbnail Factory

A systematic pipeline for producing scroll-stopping YouTube thumbnails for a mascot-driven channel. It encodes the formula, the working prompt recipe, the hook-pattern playbook, and the hard safety rules learned in production.

Built for anonymous / faceless channels: the mascot is the face, so the covers stay consistent without ever putting a person on screen.

Anonymity rule: never put the creator's real name, personal handle, or likeness on a thumbnail. If the channel is anonymous, the mascot is the identity — breaking that once is not reversible.

Configure before first use

Setting Where Example
Mascot reference image assets/mascot-ref.png see assets/README.md
Mascot on-model contract references/character-and-safety.md fill in the contract block
Hook language prompt (HOOK_LANG) Turkish, English, …
Output dir $THUMB_OUT ~/Desktop/thumbnails

The formula

Every thumbnail = 4 ingredients, nothing more (3-element rule; blink-test first — if it doesn't read in a quarter second at sidebar size, it failed):

  1. The mascot — on-model, expressive pose that fits the video's emotion.
  2. One 2-4 word hook — MASSIVE bold sans-serif caps, white + ONE accent word, thick black outline. Never duplicate the video title; open a curiosity gap that the title and video close.
  3. Relevant tool logo(s) — so the topic is legible in one glance.
  4. High-contrast modern background — dark + one strong accent color (red = urgency, green = success, blue = tech, purple = automation, gold = money). Bright, saturated, clean.

Design levers (apply, don't just decorate): curiosity gap • negativity/risk • contrast (before/after, ✓/✗) • tangible number or timeframe • authority • one clear focal point • lower-right corner kept clear (YouTube stamps the duration there) • text left / mascot right reads best.

Full hook playbook → references/hook-patterns.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A ceadbc2e0fe3

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avenox-thumbnail is a skill published in the GitHub repository avenoxai/avenoxskills (49 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,289 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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