crossgen-artist

crossgen-artist is a skill for Codex from Bliveren/CrossGen. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,227 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for using a local CrossGen installation to create or change images through an MCP connection or JSON command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating images, editing or inpainting existing images, choosing compatible models, monitoring generation jobs, inspecting gallery items, and exporting assets.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a defined way to check available image models, submit jobs, monitor them, inspect the image gallery, and export results.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Creating images, editing or inpainting existing images, choosing compatible models, monitoring generation jobs, inspecting gallery items, and exporting assets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bliveren/crossgen/crossgen-artist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Bliveren/CrossGen --skill crossgen-artist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bliveren/CrossGen

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,227 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 $0.00041 $0.01227
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 6d ago against content hash 18d0db895c83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crossgen-artist 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 6d 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/crossgen-artist/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CrossGen Artist

Use this skill when an agent needs to create or modify images through a local CrossGen installation. CrossGen owns provider credentials, model capability checks, the durable queue, and Gallery state; do not bypass it by calling an image provider directly unless the user explicitly asks for a separate integration.

Choose a transport

  1. Prefer the installed CrossGen MCP server when crossgen_* tools are available. The model-facing names are usually mcp__crossgen__crossgen_<tool>.
  2. Otherwise use the JSON CLI (crossgen ... --json). Discover the executable with crossgen doctor --agent --json; do not assume an app path or disclose API keys.
  3. If the host is DeepSeek Harness, read references/harness-mcp.md for the stdio bridge configuration. Read references/mcp-tools.md for the MCP contract and references/cli-fallback.md for equivalent CLI calls.

Standard workflow

  1. Check readiness. Call crossgen_config_status or crossgen doctor --agent --json, then crossgen_provider_list and crossgen_models_list. Treat the model catalog as authoritative for provider/model compatibility.
  2. Clarify the visual task. Convert the user's intent into a concrete prompt: subject, composition, style, lighting, materials, text requirements, aspect ratio, and exclusions. Preserve user-provided wording; only add structure that improves reproducibility. See references/model-workflows.md.
  3. Select the operation. Use generation for prompt-only output, edit for one or more reference images, and inpaint only when a mask is available and the selected adapter advertises support. Pass providerId/model only when needed; otherwise use the active compatible configuration.
  4. Confirm immediately before side effects. Generation, editing, cancellation, retry, Gallery mutations, path disclosure, and export require explicit user authorization. For MCP calls this is confirm: true; for CLI calls use --yes. Never infer confirmation from an earlier conversational turn when the request has materially changed.
  5. Use idempotency for paid retries. Set a stable idempotencyKey when a request may be retried or a host may reconnect. Do not submit a second paid request merely because the first call returned before completion.
  6. Monitor the durable job. Use waitMs only as a short convenience wait. Then poll crossgen_job_status (or crossgen job status) until a terminal state, with a bounded backoff. On failure, report the diagnostic and retry only with authorization.
  7. Handle results through Gallery. Use crossgen_gallery_list and crossgen_asset_inspect for metadata. Export with crossgen_asset_export only when the user specifies a destination and confirms it; do not rely on undisclosed absolute paths.
  8. Report precisely. Include the model/provider used, job id, terminal status, asset id(s), and any next action. Do not include API keys or local absolute paths unless explicitly requested and confirmed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 6d ago Changed · +20 lines · +2 tokens per session 18d0db895c83
  2. 11d ago First seen · 39 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 760b23c92d11

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crossgen-artist is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bliveren/CrossGen (13 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,227 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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