image-generation

image-generation is a skill for Claude Code from Galbaz1/video-research-mcp. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for improving prompts used to generate images by describing the subject, its surroundings, and the visual style.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing prompts for illustrations, photographs, and other generated images, including choices about lighting, camera, materials, and composition.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague image requests into clearer instructions while preserving the user's original idea and keeping recurring characters consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the gr plugin — 12 skills, 17 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for writing prompts for illustrations, photographs, and other generated images, including choices about lighting, camera, materials, and composition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/galbaz1/video-research-mcp/image-generation
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 Galbaz1/video-research-mcp --skill image-generation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galbaz1/video-research-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 17 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 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 $0.00045 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00136

Measured 10d ago against content hash 54964f229e9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-generation 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 10d 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-generation/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Generation Prompt Best Practices

Prompt Structure

Enhance every image generation prompt around three core elements:

1. SUBJECT (What)

The main focus of the image.

  • Physical characteristics: textures, materials, colors, scale
  • Actions, poses, expressions if applicable
  • Distinctive features that define the subject

2. CONTEXT (Where/When)

The environment and conditions.

  • Setting, background, spatial relationships (foreground, midground, background)
  • Time of day, weather, atmospheric conditions
  • Mood and emotional tone of the scene

3. STYLE (How)

The visual treatment.

  • Artistic or photographic approach: reference specific artists, movements, or styles
  • Lighting design: direction, quality, color temperature, shadows
  • Camera/lens choices: specify focal length, aperture, and shooting angle when photographic

Core Principles

  • Preserve intent -- Enrich the user's original vision, never override it
  • Positive descriptions only -- Describe what should be present; rephrase any exclusion as an inclusion
  • Specific over vague -- "golden hour sunlight at 15 degree angle" beats "nice lighting"
  • Natural flow -- Weave elements into a single flowing description, not a bullet list

Enhancement Patterns

Hyper-Specific Details

Add concrete visual details where the user left gaps:

  • Lighting: direction, quality, color temperature, shadow behavior. Always name the physical source ("warm afternoon sun through west window", not "warm lighting") -- named sources produce consistent shadows
  • Textures: surface materials, weathering, reflectivity
  • Atmosphere: particulates, humidity, depth haze
  • Scale: relative sizes, distances, proportions

Camera Control Terminology

When a photographic look is appropriate:

  • Lens type: "shot with 85mm portrait lens", "wide-angle 24mm"
  • Aperture: "shallow depth of field at f/1.8", "deep focus at f/11"
  • Angle: "low angle emphasizing height", "bird's eye view"
  • Motion: "motion blur on the paws", "frozen mid-action"

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 10d ago First seen · 143 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 54964f229e9c

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image-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Galbaz1/video-research-mcp (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,357 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 2026-08-30.

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