creative-explore

creative-explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DKeken/codex-skills-alternative. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual-planning step that proposes several distinct looks for a brand, product, or campaign and creates a reference image for each. It helps choose the overall style before making final visuals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a visual project when the product, audience, mood, or visual style is not yet agreed.
Why use it?
It prevents time being spent refining images in a direction nobody has approved. Concrete visual options make disagreements about style easier to resolve.

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/dkeken/codex-skills-alternative/creative-explore
Any agent
npx skills add DKeken/codex-skills-alternative --skill creative-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DKeken/codex-skills-alternative

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 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 5.1 $0.00111 $0.01190
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00595
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00119

Measured 5d ago against content hash fbef3f6610cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-explore 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 5d 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.

skills/creative-explore/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative — Explore (Visual Direction)

Converge on ONE visual direction before spending generation budget on variations. Picking a direction early is the single highest-leverage creative decision — everything downstream (scenes, shots, ads, polish) inherits it. Never jump straight to final assets without a locked direction.

When to use

  • Starting a new brand, campaign, or product visual from scratch.
  • The user has a product but no agreed "look".
  • Stakeholders disagree on aesthetic and you need concrete options to react to.
  • Before creative-scene, creative-shot, creative-ads-explorer, or creative-offer when no direction is locked.

When NOT to use

  • A direction/brand guide already exists → skip to the asset skills.
  • You only need to finish one already-chosen image → creative-polish.
  • The user wants team-wide mood alignment with territories → creative-moodboard (broader than this).

Inputs to gather (ask only what's missing)

  • Product / brand + what it does, in one line.
  • Audience + the feeling it should evoke (trust? excitement? calm?).
  • Hard constraints: locked colors, logo, fonts, explicit do-nots.
  • Medium: web hero, paid ad, packaging, social, app store.

If the user can't answer "what feeling", propose 2-3 candidate feelings and let them pick — don't stall.

Workflow

  1. Diverge on directions. Propose 3-6 named directions. Each must differ in organizing principle, not just palette. For each: name, one-line vibe, palette, typography feel, photographic/illustration style, when it wins, when it fails.
  2. Write a reusable prompt stub per direction, structured scene/backdrop → subject → details → constraints. This stub is the DNA that downstream skills reuse for consistency.
  3. Generate ONE reference image per direction with your image-generation tool (any text-to-image backend: DALL·E, Imagen, FLUX, SD, Midjourney). Keep it small/fast (1024x1024). Save to ./creative/explore/<direction>.png.
  4. Present side by side with the rationale table. Make a recommendation tied to the audience + medium.
  5. Lock one (or fuse two). Hand the locked direction + prompt stub to the next skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 5d ago First seen · 77 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A fbef3f6610cb

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creative-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository DKeken/codex-skills-alternative (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,190 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 2026-08-30.

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