gpt-image-gen

A guide for creating images with GPT image-generation tools. It explains how to choose the available image tool and how to write detailed prompts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing an image-generation tool, describing subjects and scenes, rendering exact text, and iterating on image prompts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid vague prompts and gives a repeatable way to improve generated images when the first result is not right.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/code-yeongyu/senpi/skill
Any agent
npx skills add code-yeongyu/senpi --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/code-yeongyu/senpi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,073 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.01073
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00107

Measured 2d ago against content hash c17f229c5207, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gpt-image-gen 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 2d 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.

packages/coding-agent/src/core/extensions/builtin/imagegen/skill/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GPT Image Generation

How to write image prompts that come back right the first time, and how to fix them fast when they don't. Read this before your first generation call.

Which tool

When image generation tooling is present in your tool set, pick the surface that actually exists right now:

  • If a native image_generation server tool is available, use it. The provider runs generation server-side and returns the image in the response stream.
  • Otherwise, call the generate_image tool. It sends your prompt to the configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint and saves the result to a file.

Check your current tool set before choosing. Skill visibility refreshes on reload, but tool state can change mid-session (model switch, credential change), so trust the tools you can see over what this page said at startup. If both surfaces ever appear, prefer the native server tool.

Prompt crafting

This section is the core of the skill. gpt-image models reward detail, and the single most common failure mode is a one-line prompt.

Build each prompt from six parts, in this order:

  1. Subject. Who or what, with concrete physical detail. "A middle-aged baker with flour on her forearms and a gray-streaked braid" beats "a baker".
  2. Medium and style. One style, stated plainly: "35mm film photograph", "watercolor illustration", "flat vector poster". Pick one lane.
  3. Composition and camera. Framing, angle, focal length or its visual equivalent. "Eye-level medium close-up, shallow depth of field, subject left of center".
  4. Lighting and color. Direction, quality, palette. "Soft window light from the left, warm amber tones against deep shadow".
  5. Mood. The emotional register: quiet, tense, celebratory, clinical.
  6. Background. What sits behind the subject, and how much of it is in focus.

A good prompt reads as a short paragraph, not a list and not a lone sentence. If your prompt fits on one line, it is under-specified, and the model will fill the gaps with whatever it likes.

Rendering text in the image

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 2d ago First seen · 68 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c17f229c5207

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gpt-image-gen is a skill published in the GitHub repository code-yeongyu/senpi (411 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,073 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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