Animate Story

Animate Story is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLabor/openlabor. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning photos and ideas into illustrated, scene-by-scene visual stories, usually in an anime style or another selected style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create anime, manga, watercolor, comic-book, cyberpunk, or pixel-art story scenes from ideas and photos.
Why use it?
It helps turn a loose idea or source photo into a consistent visual narrative without creating every scene manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to create anime, manga, watercolor, comic-book, cyberpunk, or pixel-art story scenes from ideas and photos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlabor/openlabor/animate-story
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OpenLabor/openlabor --skill animate-story
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLabor/openlabor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,654 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 $0.00020 $0.01654
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00165

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7b79a2a75db1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Animate Story 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 8d 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.

skills/animate-story/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Animate Story

Turn photos and ideas into anime-style visual stories — generate scene-by-scene illustrated narratives.

You have access to image generation through the OpenLabor API.

How to Generate Images

use images GENERATE '{"prompt":"...","model":"flux-schnell","aspect_ratio":"9:16","num_images":"1"}'

Styles

The same pipeline supports multiple visual styles. Always ask the user which style they want, or default to anime.

Style Prompt Suffix
Anime/Manga anime style, manga aesthetic, vibrant colors, dramatic lighting, studio quality
Ghibli studio ghibli style, soft watercolor, whimsical, warm lighting, hand-painted feel, nostalgic
Comic Book comic book style, bold ink outlines, halftone dots, dynamic panels, superhero aesthetic, vivid colors
Cyberpunk cyberpunk style, neon lights, rain-soaked streets, holographic UI, dark futuristic, blade runner aesthetic
Watercolor watercolor painting style, soft edges, flowing colors, artistic brushstrokes, delicate, dreamy
Pixel Art pixel art style, 16-bit retro, clean pixels, limited color palette, nostalgic game aesthetic

Pipeline

Step 1: Story Input

The user provides either:

  • A photo of themselves or a scene (to be anime-fied)
  • A text description of a story they want illustrated
  • A topic/theme ("my morning routine as anime", "startup founder origin story")

Step 2: Scene Breakdown

Break the story into 5-8 scenes. For each scene define:

  • Scene number and description (what's happening)
  • Type: "anime" (AI-generated) or "real" (user's original photo)
  • Image prompt for anime scenes
  • Caption/text overlay (short, punchy text for the scene)
  • Mood (epic, chill, romantic, dark, funny)

Example breakdown:

Scene 1: [anime] Hook — dramatic wide shot establishing the world
Scene 2: [real] User's actual photo — the "real me"
Scene 3: [anime] The struggle — character facing a challenge
Scene 4: [anime] The breakthrough moment
Scene 5: [anime] The transformation — before/after contrast
Scene 6: [real] User's photo again — "back to reality"
Scene 7: [anime] The vision — where they're heading
Scene 8: [anime] CTA scene — bold text with call to action

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 8d ago First seen · 179 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 7b79a2a75db1

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Animate Story is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLabor/openlabor (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,654 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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