illustrate

illustrate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kBashar/myagentskills. It costs 120 tokens per session (3,490 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An image-making skill that turns a description, document, webpage, or other context into vector illustrations. It draws SVG images, renders them as PNG files, and checks the result before delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create covers, hero images, blog thumbnails, social cards, link previews, and profile banners. It can follow a supplied visual style or use a stored blog-style reference.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to create illustrations when a project needs visual material. It also makes clear that photographic or painterly styles are outside its supported vector approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps create covers, hero images, blog thumbnails, social cards, link previews, and profile banners. It can follow a supplied visual style or use a stored blog-style reference.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate
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 kBashar/myagentskills --skill illustrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kBashar/myagentskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for illustrate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for illustrate

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kbashar/myagentskills/illustrate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,490 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 $0.00120 $0.03490
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.01396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00698
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00349

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2e4967773b5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

illustrate 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/fetch-og.sh, scripts/handdrawn.py, scripts/imgtool.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.

illustrate/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

illustrate

Overview

Turn the context the user gives into one or more illustrations:

  1. Study the style they point to.
  2. Pick one concrete idea per image.
  3. Draw it as SVG with code and render it to PNG.
  4. Look at the result before handing it over.

Everything is drawn as vector shapes, so flat, line-art, hand-drawn and geometric styles work well. Photographic or painterly styles can't be reproduced this way. If the reference is one of those, say so and offer the closest vector style before drawing.

The Claude blog style is stored in references/claude-blog.md, so it needs no browsing.

Inputs

Input When not given
Context: a file, pasted text, a URL, or a description of what the image is for Required. Ask for it
Style reference: a site, page URLs, a brand, an existing image, or a sketch Ask once. If the user has no preference, use the Claude blog style in references/claude-blog.md
How many, and for what: a cover, one per section, a set for several platforms One cover image
Size 1200×630. See Formats for the other platforms
Colours Taken from the reference. See "Colours" below
Output folder Next to the context file, or the current directory for pasted context
File name <context file name>-<purpose>, such as claude-certification-cover.svg and .png

Colours. When the user names a colour by reference, such as "my site's primary colour", find the hex value in that site's source. Look for CSS custom properties such as --accent or --primary, or a Tailwind or theme config. Tell the user where you found it. If you can't find it, ask for the hex value. Never guess it.

Ask about everything that's missing in one message, not one question at a time.

Formats

Use Size What the platform covers or crops
Blog cover, link preview (Open Graph), LinkedIn link post 1200×630 Some apps crop it to a centred square
X header 1500×500 The profile photo covers the lower left. Some screens crop the top and bottom
LinkedIn background (profile cover) 1584×396 The profile photo covers the left. The mobile app crops the sides
Square social post 1080×1080
16:9 hero 1600×900

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 183 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 2e4967773b5d

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illustrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository kBashar/myagentskills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 3,490 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-26.

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