github-readme-visuals

github-readme-visuals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EthanYoQ/Skill-hub. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating product screenshots and screenshot-based hero images and README sections for GitHub repositories. It helps show a software product through real interface images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add software screenshots, create a README hero image, make localized interface captures, or build a screenshot collage for a GitHub project.
Why use it?
It removes the work of explaining a graphical product with text alone. It also helps keep visual README content aligned with the product and its languages or regions.

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/ethanyoq/skill-hub/github-readme-visuals
Any agent
npx skills add EthanYoQ/Skill-hub --skill github-readme-visuals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EthanYoQ/Skill-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for github-readme-visuals

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ethanyoq/skill-hub/github-readme-visuals"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ethanyoq/skill-hub/github-readme-visuals.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,574 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 $0.00097 $0.02574
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01287
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00257

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7328be60a831, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-readme-visuals 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (assets/product-proof-split-v1-data.example.js, scripts/tests/test_verify_readme_visuals.py, scripts/verify_readme_visuals.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/07-media-content/github-readme-visuals/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub README Visuals

Create a fast, trustworthy visual explanation of the product without replacing its factual README content.

Runtime Copy And Default Profile

Before production, identify the resolved Skill path. A path inside a sibling directory ending in -workspace/skill-snapshot is an evaluation baseline, not a production Skill. Do not use it to create repository assets. Resolve and load the canonical installed or source copy instead. If no canonical copy is available, stop and report that the Skill installation must be synchronized.

For any GUI desktop or web application, use the Product-proof split v1 profile unless the user explicitly requests a different direction after seeing or naming it. Read the complete profile specification and start from the bundled deterministic HTML template.

This default is intentionally screenshot-led: the left side explains the product and the right side proves it with complete, real interface captures. A request to “use github-readme-visuals”, “replace the current hero with the Skill”, or “make it consistent with the established README visual style” selects this profile and supersedes an earlier unreviewed moodboard, illustration, or concept-art proposal.

Do not silently reinterpret the default as editorial artwork, a decorative cover, or a generated scene. Pure illustration is an opt-out path that requires an explicit user request such as “use an abstract/conceptual hero” or a non-GUI product for which real interface evidence does not exist.

Workflow

  1. Inspect the repository before designing.
    • Read the README, product notes, local instructions, existing assets, and available screenshots.
    • For application repositories, prioritize real product screenshots as proof. Do not present generated UI as a real screen.
    • Determine how to run or open the real application and list four to six distinct, user-relevant states to capture. The first/default screen is always the primary state unless the user names another workflow.
    • Record screenshot provenance, locale, dimensions, and whether the complete application window is visible in docs/readme-visuals/visual-manifest.json using the schema in the profile specification.
    • Identify the user journey a first-time visitor should understand in one glance.
    • Build a visual-claim ledger before writing hero copy: every product, pricing, privacy, credential, provider, and deployment claim must be supported by the README, source, or user-confirmed facts. Omit ambiguous claims instead of guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 3d ago First seen · 91 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 7328be60a831

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github-readme-visuals is a skill published in the GitHub repository EthanYoQ/Skill-hub (9 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,574 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 2026-08-31.

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