canon-illustrations

canon-illustrations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 66 tokens per session (661 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for choosing and designing illustrations in product interfaces, such as empty pages, onboarding, error screens, and feature explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting or creating illustrations for empty states, onboarding, error pages, marketing sections, or feature explanations.
Why use it?
It helps you decide when an illustration adds meaning and when it only creates clutter. It also keeps illustrations consistent in style, size, accessibility, and brand tone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when selecting or creating illustrations for empty states, onboarding, error pages, marketing sections, or feature explanations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/canon/canon-illustrations
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 Dragoon0x/canon --skill canon-illustrations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 661 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 $0.00066 $0.00661
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash a985f3ae1279, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-illustrations 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 9d 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.

source/skills/canon-illustrations/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CANON · Illustrations

An illustration earns its space by explaining something words can't, or by giving an emotional moment visual weight. Decorative illustrations that do neither are clutter.

When illustrations help

Context Purpose Effective?
Empty state Softens the blank page, invites action Yes — if paired with a CTA
Error page (404, 500) Humanizes the failure Yes — keeps it light
Onboarding Explains a concept visually Yes — if the concept is spatial/abstract
Feature marketing Shows the benefit Yes — if it's specific, not generic
Success confirmation Celebration moment Maybe — keep it subtle
Every card in a grid Decoration No — visual noise
Loading screen Distraction No — use skeleton

Style rules

  • One illustration style per product. Mixing styles (flat + 3D + hand-drawn) looks like different products.
  • Consistent stroke weight, color palette, and level of detail across all illustrations.
  • Match the brand voice. Playful brands get whimsical illustrations. Enterprise tools get cleaner, geometric ones.
  • No stock illustration without customization. Generic "person at laptop" illustrations signal low effort.

Sizing

Placement Size
Spot illustration (empty state) 120–200px
Feature explanation (inline) 200–320px
Hero / marketing 400–600px
Error page 200–320px

Never let an illustration dominate the page over the content or CTA.

Accessibility

  • Illustrations are decorative unless they convey information.
  • Decorative: aria-hidden="true" or alt="".
  • Informative: alt="Description of what the illustration shows".
  • Don't rely on the illustration to convey critical information.

Anti-patterns

Anti-pattern Why it fails
Illustration on every empty state regardless of context Noise
Stock illustrations with inconsistent styles Looks patchwork
Giant hero illustration pushing content below the fold Users came for content, not art
No alt text on informative illustrations Accessibility fail
Animation on illustrations without reduced-motion respect Motion sensitivity

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A a985f3ae1279

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canon-illustrations is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 661 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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