ideogram4

A prompting guide for Ideogram 4, an image-generation service that can place readable words, exact colours, and controlled layouts inside images.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating title cards, thumbnails, logos, signs, calls to action, and other images with precise text and layout.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unclear text, incorrect colours, and unpredictable placement in generated images.

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/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit/ideogram4
Any agent
npx skills add digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit --skill ideogram4
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,297 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 $0.00099 $0.01297
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00130

Measured 2d ago against content hash 738a025f66b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideogram4 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.

.claude/skills/ideogram4/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ideogram 4 Skill

Text-to-image generation with Ideogram 4 (9.3B, open-weight, released June 2026). Its superpower is best-in-class in-image text rendering — it beats much larger models (FLUX.2 dev 32B, Qwen-Image 20B, Hunyuan 80B) at rendering legible signage, logos, captions, and multi-line text — plus exact color-palette and bounding-box control.

That advantage is locked behind a structured JSON caption format. A plain-text prompt gets you FLUX-level results and misses the entire point of using this model. This skill teaches Claude to act as the "magic prompt" expander — turning a user's casual request into the JSON caption Ideogram 4 was trained on.

Backend: The toolkit uses Ideogram's hosted v4 API (not self-hosted weights). The API accepts a structured json_prompt, so everything this skill teaches applies directly — Claude builds the caption, the tool posts it as json_prompt. Paid API plans include a commercial license, which the self-hostable weights (non-commercial) do not — that's why we use the API. Cost is ~$0.03/image (turbo) to ~$0.09/image (quality).

When to Use This Skill

Reach for Ideogram 4 (over FLUX.2) when the image needs:

  • Legible on-image text — title cards, thumbnails, lower-thirds backgrounds, signage, logos, quote cards, CTAs with a headline baked in
  • Exact brand colors — hex color-palette conditioning, per-element
  • Controlled layout — bounding boxes place text/objects in specific regions
  • Multilingual text in the image

Use FLUX.2 instead when: the image has no critical text, you need commercial-licensed output, or you just want a fast atmospheric background. FLUX takes plain natural-language prompts; Ideogram wants JSON. See tools/flux2.py.

The One Thing to Get Right

Always emit a structured JSON caption, not a plain sentence. The model is trained exclusively on JSON captions that name every element explicitly. Claude is a better expander than Ideogram's free hosted magic-prompt (their own docs note the shipped one "is not the same used in production"), so build the caption yourself using this skill rather than passing raw text.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 94 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 738a025f66b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ideogram4 is a skill published in the GitHub repository digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit (2,035 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,297 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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