baoyu-article-illustrator

An article-illustration workflow that finds suitable places for images and generates them with a consistent information type, visual style, and colour palette.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add infographics, scenes, flowcharts, comparisons, frameworks, and timelines to articles from pasted or file-based content.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork of deciding where illustrations belong and helps keep images visually consistent across an article.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/baoyu-article-illustrator
Any agent
npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill baoyu-article-illustrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,458 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.02458
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01229
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00246

Measured yesterday against content hash 9de0861d5fe4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

baoyu-article-illustrator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

3. Download the returned URL to `{output-dir}/NN-{type}-{slug}.png` via `terminal` (e.g. `curl -sSL -o "{output-dir}/NN-{type}-{slug}.png" "{url}"`).
Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

optional-skills/creative/baoyu-article-illustrator/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Article Illustrator

Adapted from baoyu-article-illustrator for Hermes Agent's tool ecosystem.

Analyze articles, identify illustration positions, generate images with Type × Style × Palette consistency.

When to Use

Trigger this skill when the user asks to illustrate an article, add images to an article, generate illustrations for content, or uses phrases like "为文章配图", "illustrate article", or "add images". The user provides an article (file path or pasted content) and optionally specifies type, style, palette, or density.

Three Dimensions

Dimension Controls Examples
Type Information structure infographic, scene, flowchart, comparison, framework, timeline
Style Rendering approach notion, warm, minimal, blueprint, watercolor, elegant
Palette Color scheme (optional) macaron, warm, neon — overrides style's default colors

Combine freely: type=infographic, style=vector-illustration, palette=macaron.

Or use presets: edu-visual → type + style + palette in one shot. See style-presets.md.

Types

Type Best For
infographic Data, metrics, technical
scene Narratives, emotional
flowchart Processes, workflows
comparison Side-by-side, options
framework Models, architecture
timeline History, evolution

Styles

See references/styles.md for Core Styles, the full gallery, and Type × Style compatibility.

Output Structure

{output-dir}/
├── source-{slug}.{ext}    # Only for pasted content
├── outline.md
├── prompts/
│   └── NN-{type}-{slug}.md
└── NN-{type}-{slug}.png

Default output directory:

Input Output Directory Markdown Insert Path
Article file path {article-dir}/imgs/ imgs/NN-{type}-{slug}.png
Pasted content illustrations/{topic-slug}/ (cwd) illustrations/{topic-slug}/NN-{type}-{slug}.png

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. yesterday First seen · 208 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 9de0861d5fe4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

baoyu-article-illustrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (238,457 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,458 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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