cover-designer

cover-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ckokoski/AuthorAgent. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A book-cover design tool that creates coordinated versions for ebooks, print books, audiobooks, and social media. Each version uses the same visual brief but fits its intended shape.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare ebook and print covers, square audiobook artwork, and landscape images for social cards and newsletters.
Why use it?
It helps keep a book’s covers visually consistent across sales pages, printed editions, audio services, and promotional posts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to prepare ebook and print covers, square audiobook artwork, and landscape images for social cards and newsletters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckokoski/authoragent/cover-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Ckokoski/AuthorAgent --skill cover-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,213 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 $0.00024 $0.01213
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00121

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5a0b0e78dc94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cover-designer 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.

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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/author/cover-designer/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cover Designer

Generate a coordinated set of book covers in the standard sizes an author needs to ship across every retail platform — all from one visual brief, so the ebook, print, audiobook, and social-banner versions look cohesive.

Sizes produced

Variant Dimensions What it's for
Ebook 1024×1536 (2:3) Amazon Kindle / KDP listings, BookBub thumbnails, Goodreads
Print 1024×1536 (2:3) Front cover for paperback / hardcover (6×9 trim). Spine + back wrap added separately in your designer.
Audiobook 1024×1024 (1:1) ACX / Findaway / Spotify. Upscale to 2400×2400 before submitting.
Social 1536×1024 (3:2) Twitter / X cards, Facebook OG, BookBub feature graphics, newsletter headers

How the AI brief works

Every cover gets the same set of fields, but the AI lays out for the target aspect (vertical for ebook/print, square for audiobook, landscape for social).

Required:

  • title — the book title
  • author — pen name (auto-pulled from linked persona if available)
  • genre — primary genre (romance / fantasy / sci-fi / thriller / mystery / horror / literary / YA / nonfiction / memoir / children)
  • description — what the book is about (the AI captures the feeling, not the literal scene)

Optional richness (use as many as fit your project):

  • subgenre — e.g., "dark academia", "cosy mystery", "epic fantasy"
  • mood — e.g., "tense, claustrophobic", "warm, hopeful"
  • era — e.g., "1920s Vienna", "near-future", "Regency"
  • setting — e.g., "ancient library at midnight", "remote Scottish cottage"
  • keyImagery — array of visual elements you want featured (e.g., ["a burning compass", "raven feathers"])
  • palette — color direction (e.g., "deep blue and gold", "blood red on charcoal")
  • avoidImagery — what to keep OUT (e.g., "no faces, no weapons, no skulls")
  • stylerealistic | illustrated | minimalist (default: illustrated)

Provider preference

By default uses OpenAI's gpt-image-1 (best for book covers per author testing). Falls back to Together AI Flux if no OpenAI key is configured. Override with provider: 'together' | 'openai' | 'auto'.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 9d ago First seen · 113 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 5a0b0e78dc94

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cover-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ckokoski/AuthorAgent (105 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,213 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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