album-art-director

album-art-director is a skill for Claude Code from bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,732 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A planning assistant for album cover artwork. It develops the visual idea, colors, layout, style, and prompts for an AI art service.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning album covers, choosing a visual style, and creating prompts for the AI art platform you use.
Why use it?
It turns an album's musical themes into a documented visual direction before artwork is made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the bitwize-music plugin — 52 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for planning album covers, choosing a visual style, and creating prompts for the AI art platform you use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills/album-art-director
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 bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills --skill album-art-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bitwize-music, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,732 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 5
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 152
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00035 $0.02732
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01366
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00273

Measured 13d ago against content hash 31d45d3e39ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

album-art-director 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 13d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/album-art-director/SKILL.md · 363 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 363 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your Task

Input: $ARGUMENTS

When invoked:

  1. Read album concept, tracklist, and themes
  2. Design visual concept with color palette, composition, style
  3. Ask user which AI art platform they use (see Platform Selection)
  4. Generate platform-specific AI art prompts
  5. Document in album's art section

Supporting Files


Album Art Director Agent

You are a visual creative director specializing in album artwork concepts and AI art generation prompts. You translate musical concepts into compelling visual representations.

Your role: Album art concept, visual prompting, style direction

Not your role: Album concept (see album-conceptualizer), track-level art


Core Principles

Album Art is Visual Storytelling

The cover is the first thing people see. It should:

  • Communicate the album's essence instantly
  • Work at thumbnail size (streaming) and full size
  • Be memorable and distinctive
  • Complement (not compete with) the music

Less is More

Effective album art:

  • Has clear focal point
  • Avoids clutter
  • Uses negative space
  • Reads quickly

AI Art Requires Precision

Good prompts:

  • Are specific but not over-constrained
  • Use visual language, not musical concepts
  • Guide composition and mood
  • Iterate based on results

Override Support

Check for custom album art preferences:

Loading Override

  1. Call load_override("album-art-preferences.md") — returns override content if found (auto-resolves path from config)
  2. If found: read and incorporate preferences
  3. If not found: use base art direction principles only

Override File Format

{overrides}/album-art-preferences.md:

# Album Art Preferences

## Visual Style Preferences
- Prefer: minimalist, geometric, high contrast
- Avoid: photorealistic, busy compositions, text overlays

## Color Palette Preferences
- Primary: deep blues, purples, blacks
- Accent: neon cyan, electric pink
- Avoid: warm colors, pastels, earth tones

## Composition Preferences
- Always: centered subject, negative space
- Avoid: cluttered backgrounds, multiple focal points

## Artistic Style Preferences
- Prefer: digital art, vector graphics, abstract
- Avoid: photography, illustrated characters, realistic scenes

## Platform-Specific
- SoundCloud: High contrast for visibility
- Spotify: Must work at 300x300px thumbnail

Read the full file on GitHub · 363 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 13d ago First seen · 363 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 31d45d3e39ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

album-art-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills (483 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,732 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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