illustrator-preflight

illustrator-preflight is a skill for Claude Code from ie3jp/illustrator-mcp-server. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-press inspection for Adobe Illustrator documents before printing or exporting a PDF.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check print settings, linked files, image resolution, overprinting, transparency, spot colors, PDF/X compliance, and text consistency.
Why use it?
It finds production problems such as unsuitable colors, missing images, low-resolution artwork, unoutlined text, and inconsistent wording before delivery.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the illustrator-preflight plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It helps check print settings, linked files, image resolution, overprinting, transparency, spot colors, PDF/X compliance, and text consistency.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ie3jp/illustrator-mcp-server/illustrator-preflight
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 ie3jp/illustrator-mcp-server --skill illustrator-preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ie3jp/illustrator-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,335 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 119
    Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.
    Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
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 $0.00101 $0.01335
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00134

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8bfd74dda337, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

illustrator-preflight 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.

plugins/illustrator-preflight/skills/illustrator-preflight/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Illustrator Preflight Check

Comprehensive pre-press quality check workflow for Illustrator documents.

Workflow

Execute these 3 tool calls in parallel, then analyze results together:

Step 1: Parallel Data Collection

Run simultaneously:

  1. preflight_check — core checks (RGB, links, resolution, text, overprint, transparency, spot colors)
  2. get_overprint_info — detailed overprint analysis with intent classification
  3. check_text_consistency — dummy text, notation variation detection, and full text dump for LLM analysis

If user specifies a target PDF profile, pass target_pdf_profile: "x1a" or "x4" to preflight_check. If user specifies DPI threshold, pass min_dpi to preflight_check (default: 300).

Step 1b: Conditional Follow-up

If preflight_check reports spot_color warnings, run get_separation_info to get detailed plate information and usage counts. This helps determine whether spot colors are actively used or just leftover swatches.

Step 2: Analyze and Classify

Read references/preflight-rules.md for severity levels and judgment criteria.

Merge results from all 3 tools into a unified report, grouped by severity:

  1. Critical — Must fix. Blocks submission.
  2. Warning — Review recommended. May or may not need fixing depending on context.
  3. Info — Awareness items. No action required unless relevant.

For overprint results, cross-reference get_overprint_info intent classification:

  • intentional_k100: Suppress from report (standard practice)
  • rich_black_overprint: Include as warning if ink coverage exceeds the limit for the paper type (uncoated: 300%, coated: 350%, newspaper: 240%). If paper type is unknown, ask user or use 300% as default.
  • likely_accidental: Escalate to critical

For text consistency:

  • Dummy text hits → critical (must replace before submission)
  • Notation variations (katakana, fullwidth/halfwidth) → warning
  • Use allTexts from check_text_consistency for LLM-driven deeper analysis: look for typos, version mismatches, inconsistent terminology, and any other anomalies that regex patterns would miss.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 120 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 8bfd74dda337

Subscribe to this mod's changes

illustrator-preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository ie3jp/illustrator-mcp-server (100 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,335 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 2026-08-30.

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