Art

Art Skill

Customization

Before executing, check for user customizations at: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Art/

If this directory exists, load and apply:

• PREFERENCES.md - Aesthetic preferences, default model, output location
• CharacterSpecs.md - Character design specifications
• SceneConstruction.md - Scene composition guidelines

These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.

1. Send voice notification:

   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the Art skill to ACTION"}' \
     > /dev/null 2>&1 &
   

2. Output text notification:

   Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **Art** skill to ACTION...
   

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

What It Does

Generates static visual content across 20+ formats — blog headers, technical and architecture diagrams, frameworks, taxonomies, timelines, comparisons, stat cards, comics, icons, wallpapers, D3 charts, Mermaid diagrams — using Flux, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro), and GPT-Image-2. Every request routes through a named workflow that encodes the technique and palette, output stages to $LIFEOS_DOWNLOADS_DIR (default ~/Downloads/ when unset) for review first, and blog headers ship both a transparent inline version and an opaque social thumbnail.

The Problem

The bare image model produces inconsistent, off-style output when handed a freeform prompt — one session shipped 12 rejected diagrams because the prompt skipped the workflow that holds the composition rules. Different formats need different models (text-heavy cards want GPT-Image-2; editorial headers want Nano Banana Pro), different size formats, and different transparency handling. Without a fixed routing-and-staging discipline, you get wrong sizes, opaque headers that bleed over the page background, and images pushed straight to a repo before anyone looked at them. This skill makes the workflow, the model choice, and the Downloads-first review mandatory in code, not just in markdown.