image-poster

image-poster is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mphinance/alpha-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (860 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of image-poster, MIT.

An image-making workflow for producing posters, key art, and editorial illustrations as PNG or JPEG files. It turns a brief into a structured image prompt and uses the project's image settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating one finished visual asset at a time, such as a poster, illustration, or other requested key artwork.
Why use it?
It gives image requests a consistent structure so the subject, composition, lighting, colour, and things to avoid are considered together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for creating one finished visual asset at a time, such as a poster, illustration, or other requested key artwork.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mphinance/alpha-skills/image-poster
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 mphinance/alpha-skills --skill image-poster
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mphinance/alpha-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 860 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00071 $0.00860
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00344
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00086

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2b0163591056, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-poster 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to image-poster — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/image-poster/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Poster Skill

Produce one finished image asset per turn unless the user asks for variations. Image generation rewards a tight, structured prompt — your job is to assemble that prompt from the user's brief, then dispatch.

Resource map

image-poster/
├── SKILL.md         ← you're reading this
└── example.html     ← what the resulting card looks like in Examples

Workflow

Step 0 — Read the project metadata

The active project carries imageModel, imageAspect, and (optional) imageStyle notes. Use them as the upstream model + canvas + style anchor; only ask the user to fill them in if they're marked (unknown — ask).

Step 1 — Compose the prompt

Plan in this exact order before calling any tool:

  1. Subject + composition — what is in the frame, where, at what scale; eye-line and crop.
  2. Lighting + mood — natural / studio / moody; warm / cool; key plus rim plus fill; time of day if outdoor.
  3. Palette + textures — hex anchors when the user gave a brand palette; otherwise a 3-word mood tag (e.g. "muted ochre + ink").
  4. Camera / lens — only if the user wants photographic realism ("85mm portrait, shallow DOF") or a specific film stock.
  5. What to avoid — common AI-slop patterns ("no extra fingers, no warped text, no logo placeholders").

Step 2 — Dispatch via the media contract

Use the unified dispatcher — do not call upstream provider APIs by hand. Run from your shell tool:

node "$OD_BIN" media generate \
  --project "$OD_PROJECT_ID" \
  --surface image \
  --model "<imageModel from metadata>" \
  --aspect "<imageAspect from metadata>" \
  --output "<short-descriptive-name>.png" \
  --prompt "<the full assembled prompt from Step 1>"

The command prints one line of JSON: {"file": {"name": "...", ...}}. The daemon writes the bytes into the project folder; the FileViewer picks it up automatically.

Step 3 — Hand off

Reply with a one-paragraph summary of the prompt you used and the filename returned by the dispatcher (e.g. I generated hero-poster.png with gpt-image-2 at 1:1.). Do not emit an <artifact> tag.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 2b0163591056

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image-poster is a skill published in the GitHub repository mphinance/alpha-skills (28 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 860 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to image-poster, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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