image-prompting

image-prompting is a skill for Claude Code from DojoCodingLabs/nanobanana-mcp. It costs 44 tokens per session (518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-writing skill provides guidance for creating and editing images with Gemini-based image tools. It covers prompt structure, model selection, and describing visual changes precisely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when generating or editing images with nanobanana, especially when composition, style, lighting, or text must be specified.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague image requests into clearer instructions and choose a suitable image model for the task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nanobanana-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when generating or editing images with nanobanana, especially when composition, style, lighting, or text must be specified.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dojocodinglabs/nanobanana-mcp/image-prompting
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 DojoCodingLabs/nanobanana-mcp --skill image-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/nanobanana-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nanobanana-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 518 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 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 $0.00044 $0.00518
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash 062f5299d2d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-prompting 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 12d 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/image-prompting/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Image Prompting Best Practices

When helping users generate or edit images with nanobanana, apply these guidelines.

Prompt Structure for Generation

A strong image prompt follows this pattern: [Subject] + [Style] + [Composition] + [Lighting/Mood] + [Details]

Example: "A cozy coffee shop interior, watercolor illustration style, wide angle view, warm golden lighting, with plants on shelves and a cat sleeping on a chair"

Model Selection Guide

nanobanana supports three Gemini models via the NANOBANANA_MODEL env var:

Model Best For
gemini-2.5-flash-image (default) Fast generation, prototyping, high-volume work
gemini-3-pro-image-preview Complex prompts, text rendering in images, high quality
gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview Latest features, advanced capabilities

Recommend model changes when appropriate:

  • User needs text in the image -> suggest Pro
  • User is iterating rapidly -> stick with Flash (default)
  • User wants highest quality for final output -> suggest Pro

Editing Best Practices

When using edit_image or continue_editing:

  • Be specific about what to change: "Make the sky more orange" not "improve the colors"
  • Reference specific areas: "Add a tree in the bottom-left corner"
  • For style transfer, use reference images via the referenceImages parameter
  • Each edit creates a new file -- the original is always preserved

Constraints

  • Prompts over 10,000 characters will be rejected
  • Image files must be under 20MB
  • Supported input formats: JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF
  • Output is always PNG
  • File paths must resolve within $HOME or $TMPDIR (security constraint)
  • Images are saved to ~/nanobanana-images/

Iterative Workflow

The most effective image workflow is:

  1. Generate a base image with a detailed prompt
  2. Use continue_editing for incremental refinements
  3. Each iteration should address ONE specific change
  4. If the result diverges too far, start fresh with generate_image
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. 12d ago First seen · 59 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 062f5299d2d5

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image-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository DojoCodingLabs/nanobanana-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 518 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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