nano-banana

nano-banana is a skill for Claude Code from glebis/claude-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,204 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for generating and editing images from text prompts using Google's Gemini image models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for illustrations, thumbnails, presentation graphics, blog images, social posts, style transfers, and edits to existing images.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to produce images in selected styles, sizes, and variants without creating them manually.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nano-banana plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for illustrations, thumbnails, presentation graphics, blog images, social posts, style transfers, and edits to existing images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glebis/claude-skills/nano-banana
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 glebis/claude-skills --skill nano-banana
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nano-banana, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,204 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.02204
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01102
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00220

Measured 9d ago against content hash aca8c6b99668, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-banana 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/generate_image.sh, scripts/nano_banana.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.

nano-banana/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nano Banana - Gemini Image Generation

Generate and edit images from text prompts via Google's Gemini image generation API.

When to Use

  • User requests image generation, creation, or production from a text description
  • Editing existing images with text instructions
  • Style-transfer: generate new images that match the aesthetic of a reference
  • Creating illustrations for presentations, articles, thumbnails, social posts
  • Batch variations of the same concept

First-Time Setup

scripts/nano_banana.py init

Wizard checks dependencies (sops, age, magick), verifies the API key, and saves defaults to ~/.config/nano-banana/config.yaml.

Quick Start

# Simple generation
scripts/nano_banana.py "a minimalist illustration of a rocket" ./rocket.png

# With style preset
scripts/nano_banana.py --preset editorial "interconnected nodes" ./nodes.png

# YouTube thumbnail (auto-cropped to 1280x720)
scripts/nano_banana.py --preset grain --platform youtube "coffee on desk" ./thumb.png

# Generate 4 variants + contact sheet
scripts/nano_banana.py --preset wireframe "a crystal" ./crystal.png --n 4

# Edit existing image
scripts/nano_banana.py --edit ./old.png "make the background deep teal" ./new.png

# Style reference (match aesthetic of existing image)
scripts/nano_banana.py --reference ./style.png "a new mountain landscape" ./mountain.png

# Re-roll last prompt
scripts/nano_banana.py again

# View history
scripts/nano_banana.py history -n 10

Requirements

  • GEMINI_API_KEY — auto-decrypted from secrets.enc.yaml via SOPS + age. Fallback: export GEMINI_API_KEY=...
  • sops, age — for key decryption
  • magick (ImageMagick) — for platform fit + contact sheets
  • python3 with pyyaml

Models

Model Alias Nano Banana Name Use When
gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (default) flash Nano Banana 2 Best instruction following, fast
gemini-3-pro-image-preview pro Nano Banana Pro Highest quality, text in images
gemini-2.5-flash-image flash-2.5 Nano Banana (original) Legacy

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 206 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A aca8c6b99668

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nano-banana is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/claude-skills (375 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,204 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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