youtube-thumbnail

youtube-thumbnail is a skill for Claude Code from biggora/claude-plugins-registry. It costs 99 tokens per session (10,111 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guide for generating YouTube thumbnails, which are small images used to represent videos, in several visual styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make video thumbnails, covers, channel art, presentation title slides, or batches of similar images.
Why use it?
It describes how to choose a style, create a base image, add text and effects, and save the finished thumbnail.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Gemini CLI.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/claude/generate_thumbnail.py.

Part of the project-delivery-orchestrator plugin — 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to make video thumbnails, covers, channel art, presentation title slides, or batches of similar images.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add biggora/claude-plugins-registry
Claude Code
/plugin install project-delivery-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-delivery-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,111 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 5 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 $0.00099 $0.10111
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.05056
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01011

Measured 8d ago against content hash a201808fa2a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

youtube-thumbnail scanned grade D with 5 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 8d 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

r = requests.post("http://127.0.0.1:7860/sdapi/v1/txt2img", json=payload, timeout=120)

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

env = os.environ.copy()

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

| 3 | **MCP Imagen 4** (Vertex AI) | `which mcp-imagen-go` + `~/.gemini/settings.json` | ★★★★★ | Vertex AI pricing |

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

r = requests.get("http://127.0.0.1:7860/sdapi/v1/samplers", timeout=3)

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

r = subprocess.run(["which", "mcp-imagen-go"],
src/skills/youtube-thumbnail/SKILL.md · 1,065 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,065 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Thumbnail Generation Skill (2026 Edition)

Overview

This skill enables fully autonomous generation of professional YouTube thumbnails in 11 strategic styles from THUMBNAILS.md. Zero user interaction required after the initial request. The agent auto-selects style, builds a prompt, generates the base image via the best available AI backend, applies compositing and text via Pillow, and saves a final 1280×720 PNG to /mnt/user-data/outputs/thumbnail.png.


When to Trigger This Skill

Trigger when the user:

  • Says "create a thumbnail", "make a thumbnail", "generate a YouTube thumbnail"
  • Provides a video title or topic and needs a visual
  • Wants product video covers, presentation title slides, or channel art
  • Needs batch thumbnail creation or automation for a YouTube workflow

Architecture: Two-Layer Pipeline

[User Request]
      │
      ▼
[Layer 1: AI Image Generation]   ← Base image via best available backend
      │
      ▼
[Layer 2: Pillow Compositing]    ← Resize to 1280×720, effects, text overlay
      │
      ▼
[Output: /mnt/user-data/outputs/thumbnail.png]

Backend Priority Table

Auto-detect each backend by testing availability. Use the first one that works.

# Backend Detection Method Quality Cost
1 A1111 Local SD GET localhost:7860/sdapi/v1/samplers ★★★★ Free (own GPU)
2 ComfyUI Local GET localhost:8188/history ★★★★ Free (own GPU)
3 MCP Imagen 4 (Vertex AI) which mcp-imagen-go + ~/.gemini/settings.json ★★★★★ Vertex AI pricing
4 Gemini API (Nano Banana 2) GEMINI_API_KEY env + google-genai installed ★★★★ Free quota
5 fal.ai FLUX FAL_KEY env + fal-client installed ★★★★ $0.03/MP
6 OpenAI gpt-image-1 OPENAI_API_KEY env + openai installed ★★★★ ~$0.04/img
7 Pillow-only fallback Always available ★★ Free

The 11 Thumbnail Styles

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,065 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. 8d ago First seen · 1,065 lines · 99 tokens per session scan D a201808fa2a6

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youtube-thumbnail is a skill published in the GitHub repository biggora/claude-plugins-registry (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 10,111 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 5 findings (sends data to an external url, harvests environment variables, reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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