thumbnail-set-designer

thumbnail-set-designer is a skill for Codex from jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,141 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool for creating several deliberately different thumbnail prompts from a title and opening idea. A thumbnail is the small preview image used for a video or other content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a repeatable set of thumbnail or cover-image options, especially when comparing distinct compositions.
Why use it?
Image generators often return near-identical options or render text poorly. This gives each option a different layout and colour direction before generation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to plan a repeatable set of thumbnail or cover-image options, especially when comparing distinct compositions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills/thumbnail-set-designer
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 jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills --skill thumbnail-set-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,141 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 $0.00084 $0.01141
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00114

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6cd684945c5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thumbnail-set-designer 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/rotation.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/thumbnail-set-designer/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thumbnail Set Designer

Ask an image generator for seven thumbnails and you get seven versions of one idea, because nothing told it to be different. This turns a title and a hook into a set of specific, deliberately unlike prompts, and carries the traps that otherwise cost you a whole generation run.

Pair it with thumbnail-legibility-check to choose between the results.

When to use

  • Generating several thumbnail or cover-image options for one piece of content.
  • Every option coming back as a variation of the same composition.
  • On-image text rendering wrong.
  • Building a repeatable system rather than making one thumbnail.

Step 1: plan the set

python scripts/rotation.py "Your video title" --count 7

Standard library only, --json for machine output. It pairs seven distinct layouts against rotating accent colours, seeded from the title so the same subject always produces the same plan.

The layouts and colours in the script are a neutral starting set, not a house style. Replace LAYOUTS and COLOURWAYS with your own before real use. What matters is the shape of the system:

  • Distinct means the eye lands somewhere different, not that the crop moved. A face-left layout and a face-right layout are one layout.
  • One accent per image, rotating across the set, so a channel looks like one channel while individual videos stay distinguishable.
  • Determinism over randomness. A seeded rotation is reproducible and debuggable. Random assignment gives you the same thumbnail twice and no way to find out why.

Step 2: extract the hero element

Most thumbnails need one thing that carries the claim: a figure, a short phrase, or an object.

The trap that costs runs: whatever extracts that figure will happily grab a number from anywhere in your inputs. A currency amount mentioned in passing in the notes field beats the actual headline figure, because currency symbols look important. The generated set is then built around the wrong number and you find out after the images exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 6cd684945c5b

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thumbnail-set-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,141 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 2026-08-31.

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