paper-signal-art-director

paper-signal-art-director is a skill for Codex from jiahuiqu17/paper-signal. It costs 125 tokens per session (986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating one carefully composed minimal-zine bitmap image from a subject, photo, idea, or text prompt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for standalone posters, editorial covers, poetic visual concepts, photo restyling, and similar single-image work.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad creative brief into a clear visual direction, without relying only on a style label.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for standalone posters, editorial covers, poetic visual concepts, photo restyling, and similar single-image work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/paper-signal-art-director
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 986 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 $0.00125 $0.00986
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00493
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3ce572b43c1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-signal-art-director 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 12d 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/paper-signal-art-director/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Signal Art Director

Create one authored image. Make the subject, not the style label, drive the composition.

Load the shared kernel

This skill ships inside the Paper Signal plugin. Resolve shared files relative to this folder and read:

  1. ../paper-signal/references/subject-routing.md
  2. ../paper-signal/references/visual-language.md
  3. ../paper-signal/references/presets.md
  4. ../paper-signal/references/prompt-compiler.md
  5. ../paper-signal/references/quality-contract.md

For an existing-image edit, also read ../paper-signal/references/restyle-contract.md.

Workflow

  1. Resolve the asset. Identify intended use, subject, mood, aspect ratio, exact visible text, references, edit target, protected details, and destination.
  2. Inspect images. Label each input as edit-target, style-reference, content-reference, or series-anchor. Use view_image for every local edit target and for any style reference that needs visual interpretation.
  3. Route the subject. Choose landscape, portrait, object, architecture, concept, or evidence.
  4. Choose composition. Select airy-fragment, photo-window, panorama-strip, dual-frame, specimen-plate, portrait-archive, or type-object. Prefer the mode that keeps the subject rewarding at phone size.
  5. Choose material. Select one preset, one lead reproduction process, one type pairing, and one meaningful saturated hue. Do not automatically choose cobalt when the subject suggests another ink.
  6. Write the visual thesis. Reduce the brief to subject / action or state / emotional tension.
  7. Save the prompt. Write the exact four-paragraph raster prompt to prompts/01-{role}-{slug}.md before rendering. Use no visible text when words do not improve the image.
  8. Confirm once. Show subject route, composition, preset, process, hue, text, protected details, and output path unless the user explicitly asked to generate directly.
  9. Render. Use the runtime-native bitmap generator. In Codex, use the built-in imagegen skill/tool. Never substitute SVG, HTML, canvas, or programmatic poster rendering.
  10. Inspect and correct. Judge subject integrity, material causality, authored composition, exact text, chromatic signal, and phone-size readability. Retry once with one targeted change.
  11. Deliver. Copy the selected image into the project or requested destination, show it inline, and return its absolute path and saved prompt.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 12d ago First seen · 70 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 3ce572b43c1d

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paper-signal-art-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository jiahuiqu17/paper-signal (109 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 986 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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