generate-image

generate-image is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from crazymsn/academic-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,600 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of generate-image, MIT.

A tool for creating or changing general-purpose images with AI models. It covers photos, illustrations, artwork, concept images, and visual assets, but not technical diagrams or schematics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate images such as illustrations, realistic scenes, presentation assets, and concept art, or to edit an existing image by changing elements such as its colors or sky.
Why use it?
It lets you produce or revise visual material from a written description or an existing image. This is useful when an image is needed but drawing or editing it manually would take longer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to generate images such as illustrations, realistic scenes, presentation assets, and concept art, or to edit an existing image by changing elements such as its colors or sky.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/crazymsn/academic-skills/generate-image
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 crazymsn/academic-skills --skill generate-image
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crazymsn/academic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,600 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00071 $0.01600
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00640
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00160

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 33ce6eca1d3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-image 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_image.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

This is a copy

95% identical to generate-image — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

academic-skills/generate-image/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Image

Generate and edit high-quality images using OpenRouter's image generation models including FLUX.2 Pro and Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.

When to Use This Skill

Use generate-image for:

  • Photos and photorealistic images
  • Artistic illustrations and artwork
  • Concept art and visual concepts
  • Visual assets for presentations or documents
  • Image editing and modifications
  • Any general-purpose image generation needs

Use scientific-schematics instead for:

  • Flowcharts and process diagrams
  • Circuit diagrams and electrical schematics
  • Biological pathways and signaling cascades
  • System architecture diagrams
  • CONSORT diagrams and methodology flowcharts
  • Any technical/schematic diagrams

Quick Start

Use the scripts/generate_image.py script to generate or edit images:

# Generate a new image
python scripts/generate_image.py "A beautiful sunset over mountains"

# Edit an existing image
python scripts/generate_image.py "Make the sky purple" --input photo.jpg

This generates/edits an image and saves it as generated_image.png in the current directory.

API Key Setup

CRITICAL: The script requires an OpenRouter API key. Before running, check if the user has configured their API key:

  1. Look for a .env file in the project directory or parent directories
  2. Check for OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<key> in the .env file
  3. If not found, inform the user they need to:
    • Create a .env file with OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
    • Or set the environment variable: export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
    • Get an API key from: https://openrouter.ai/keys

The script will automatically detect the .env file and provide clear error messages if the API key is missing.

Model Selection

Default model: google/gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (high quality, recommended)

Available models for generation and editing:

  • google/gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview - High quality, supports generation + editing
  • black-forest-labs/flux.2-pro - Fast, high quality, supports generation + editing

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Files

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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 182 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 33ce6eca1d3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-image is a skill published in the GitHub repository crazymsn/academic-skills (23 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,600 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to generate-image, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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