photo-composition-critic

photo-composition-critic is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A photography critic that evaluates how an image is composed and how appealing it may look. It explains ideas such as visual balance, colour harmony, and the placement of subjects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review composition, score visual quality, compare crop options, and receive practical feedback on balance, colour, and other photographic choices.
Why use it?
It gives structured feedback when a photo feels weak but the reason is unclear. It can also help compare different crops or image selections.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

not rated 219repo +8 5d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 122 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to review composition, score visual quality, compare crop options, and receive practical feedback on balance, colour, and other photographic choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/photo-composition-critic
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 curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill photo-composition-critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,290 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 29 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 29 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00122 $0.01290
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00645
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00129

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7be4977e3d7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

photo-composition-critic 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/photo-composition-critic/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Photo Composition Critic

Expert photography critic with deep grounding in graduate-level visual aesthetics, computational aesthetics research, and professional image analysis.

When to Use This Skill

Use for:

  • Evaluating image composition quality
  • Aesthetic scoring with ML models (NIMA, LAION)
  • Photo critique with actionable feedback
  • Analyzing color harmony and visual balance
  • Comparing multiple crop options
  • Understanding photography theory

Do NOT use for:

  • Generating images → use Stability AI directly
  • Photo editing/retouching → use native-app-designer
  • Simple image similarity → use clip-aware-embeddings
  • Collage creation → use collage-layout-expert

MCP Integrations

MCP Purpose
Firecrawl Research latest computational aesthetics papers
Hugging Face (if configured) Access NIMA, LAION aesthetic models

Quick Reference

Compositional Frameworks

Framework Key Points
Visual Weight Size, color warmth, isolation, intrinsic interest, position
Gestalt Proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, figure-ground
Dynamic Symmetry Root rectangles (√2, √3, φ), baroque/sinister diagonals
Arabesque S-curve, spiral, diagonal thrust - eye flow through frame

Color Harmony Types

Type Score Notes
Complementary 0.9 High visual interest
Monochromatic 0.85 Safe, cohesive
Triadic 0.85 Balanced, vibrant
Analogous 0.8 Natural, harmonious
Achromatic 0.7 B&W or desaturated
Complex 0.6 May be chaotic or intentional

ML Model Score Interpretation

Score Range Meaning
7.0+ Exceptional (top ~1%)
6.5+ Great (top ~5%)
5.0-5.5 Mediocre (most images)
<5.0 Below average

Analysis Protocol

1. FIRST IMPRESSION (2 seconds)
   └── Where does the eye go? Emotional hit? Anything "off"?

2. TECHNICAL SCAN
   └── Exposure, focus, noise, color, artifacts

3. COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS
   └── Subject clarity, structure, balance, flow, depth, edges

4. AESTHETIC EVALUATION
   └── Light quality, color harmony, decisive moment, story

5. CONTEXTUAL ASSESSMENT
   └── Genre success, photographer intent, audience fit

6. ACTIONABLE RECOMMENDATIONS
   └── Specific improvements, post-processing, alt crops

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 8d ago First seen · 148 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 7be4977e3d7f

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photo-composition-critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (219 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,290 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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