project-illustrator

project-illustrator is a skill for Claude Code from mgiovani/cc-arsenal. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,622 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A visual identity guide for creating consistent project artwork, including mascots, logos, README header images, social cards, thumbnails, and illustrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an existing project identity, create one when none exists, and plan artwork for different sizes and locations.
Why use it?
It prevents each project image from looking unrelated by preserving a shared character, colour palette, layout style, and finish.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the cc-arsenal-product plugin — 7 skills shipped together , and of cc-arsenal

Good fit Use it to inspect an existing project identity, create one when none exists, and plan artwork for different sizes and locations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/project-illustrator
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 mgiovani/cc-arsenal --skill project-illustrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgiovani/cc-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-arsenal-product, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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 project-illustrator

README.md
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Your own site
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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 project-illustrator

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,622 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00062 $0.01622
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00649
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00162

Measured 22d ago against content hash f36c79ff4349, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

project-illustrator scanned grade C with 2 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 22d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/derive_assets.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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

Derive the fixed-size crops with the script rather than by hand. It needs [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`) and installs Pillow itself:

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Derive the fixed-size crops with the script rather than by hand. It needs [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`) and installs Pillow itself:
skills/project-illustrator/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.

Project Illustrator

Build a project art system that stays recognizable at every size. A tiny avatar has to read as clearly as a wide README hero, and so does whatever illustration follows later. Base every decision on the product and its existing identity rather than on generic technology imagery.

1. Discover the identity

Inspect the target repository before writing a prompt:

  • Read the README and product copy to learn the problem, mechanism, audience, and tone.
  • Search assets/, public/, static/, documentation, social cards, favicons, and app icons for existing brand material.
  • Inspect the actual candidates. Do not treat a framework or template icon as project branding.
  • Record the current output paths, dimensions, formats, and every place the artwork is referenced.

If the project already has a logo or mascot, preserve its defining silhouette, anatomy, colors, and personality. Improve execution and consistency without replacing its identity.

If it has no identity, turn the product's mechanism into a character or visual action. Prefer a specific idea that explains the project over a mascot holding unrelated developer props.

Read references/art-direction.md for the default visual language, asset specifications, and review checklist.

2. Establish one canonical mascot

When no mascot has been approved, generate three clearly different high-resolution concepts. Vary the central metaphor, silhouette, or staging while keeping the same art direction. Do not produce superficial color swaps.

Keep each concept:

  • square and at least 1024px;
  • readable inside a circular crop;
  • centered with generous breathing room;
  • limited to one clear action or idea;
  • free of labels, slogans, mock UI, and decorative clutter.

Show the three options together at a useful review size and name them plainly: Option 1, Option 2, and Option 3. Pause for the user's selection before creating dependent heroes or illustration sets. The selection is a creative dependency, not a permission gate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

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. 22d ago Changed · +19 lines scan A → C f36c79ff4349
  2. 1mo ago Changed 4d205c1bd687
  3. 1mo ago Changed 1f02429d6d88
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines b5fb72c90af5
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 8e02ad9dbb9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-illustrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository mgiovani/cc-arsenal (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,622 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-10.

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