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.
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill visual-style-directiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/visual-style-direction)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/visual-style-direction"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/visual-style-direction/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/visual-style-direction"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/visual-style-direction.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00094 | $0.08578 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00047 | $0.04289 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.01716 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00858 |
Grade A, and why
visual-style-direction 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 746 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Direct the visual system
Create a visual grammar that another production agent can execute repeatedly, not a pile of adjectives and not a clone of a reference. Translate intent into observable rules, encode the rules in portable artifacts, prove them on representative frames or shots, and repair the system rather than patching isolated outputs.
Evidence labels used here
- Documented fact — a statement supported by a standard, first-party technical document, or institutional source.
- Research finding — a result from a cited empirical study; apply only within the study's limits.
- Production heuristic — a practical rule of thumb. Treat it as a testable default, not a law.
Keep these categories distinct in the direction packet. Never present taste, convention, or a provider behavior as a standard.
Deliverable contract
Produce a visual direction packet that is usable without access to the original conversation. It must contain:
- brief interpretation and unresolved assumptions;
- a one-sentence direction thesis;
- reference ledger and originality analysis;
- invariants, controlled variables, and explicit anti-patterns;
- palette, contrast pairs, typography, layout, texture/material, lighting, camera/lens, and motion systems;
- continuity rules for recurring subjects, locations, graphics, and shots;
- accessibility and rights constraints;
- portable design tokens plus non-token production rules;
- image and video adaptation rules, including aspect-ratio behavior;
- representative proof-frame or proof-shot specifications;
- handoff metadata, acceptance tests, and a repair log.
Do not bury decisions in prose. Every consequential choice needs a stable name, rationale, allowed range, and test.
Scope boundaries
Use this skill to decide what the work should look and move like across tools. Hand the resulting system to image-generation, video-generation, animation, editing, layout, or finishing skills.
Do not:
- prescribe a provider, endpoint, model identifier, seed syntax, or provider-specific prompt grammar;
- substitute a mood board for a production specification;
- promise that a generated sample guarantees continuity across a batch;
- infer permission to use brand assets, likenesses, locations, fonts, footage, or reference works;
- claim legal clearance. Surface the facts and request review when risk is material.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 746 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A bbf6f9ec4577
visual-style-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 8,578 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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