nano-banana

nano-banana is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenMinis/MinisSkills. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,518 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An image-generation guide for creating or editing pictures with Google’s Nano Banana, an image-generation service based on the Gemini API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating artwork from text, editing supplied images, generating image batches, and displaying the resulting files.
Why use it?
It provides the required workflow for checking setup, choosing an image model, running generation or editing, and saving the result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Creating artwork from text, editing supplied images, generating image batches, and displaying the resulting files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openminis/minisskills/nano-banana
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 OpenMinis/MinisSkills --skill nano-banana
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenMinis/MinisSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,518 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 93
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00083 $0.01518
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00759
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00152

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5ef6fe6c6884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

nano-banana scanned grade B 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/batch.py, scripts/edit.py, scripts/gen.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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

Run any script with:
nano-banana/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nano Banana — Image Generation Skill

Generate or edit images locally using the Google Gemini image generation API (a.k.a. Nano Banana).

Quick Workflow

  1. Check environment (API key + dependencies)
  2. Identify the mode: text-to-image / image editing / batch generation
  3. Choose the right model
  4. Use the bundled scripts directly — no need to rewrite them
  5. Run the script and save output to /var/minis/attachments/
  6. Display the result inline in the conversation

Environment Setup

Check API Key

source /etc/profile && echo $GEMINI_API_KEY | head -c 10

⚠️ Always run source /etc/profile first — environment variables are stored there and won't be available otherwise.

If not set, direct the user to Google AI Studio to obtain a key, then:

echo 'export GEMINI_API_KEY="your_key_here"' >> /etc/profile

Check Dependencies

pip show google-genai pillow 2>&1 | grep -E "^Name|not found"

If missing:

pip install google-genai pillow

Model Selection

Model Model ID Best For
Nano Banana 2 (recommended) gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview Fast, high quality, 2K support — default choice
Nano Banana Pro gemini-3-pro-image-preview Complex prompts, professional assets, precise text rendering
Nano Banana (original) gemini-2.5-flash-image Ultra-low latency, simple tasks

Default to gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview unless the user explicitly requests another version.


⚠️ Known API Pitfalls

1. Aspect ratio / resolution config

Wrong (old API, throws AttributeError):

# types.ImageGenerationConfig does not exist!
image_generation_config=types.ImageGenerationConfig(aspect_ratio="16:9")

Correct:

config=types.GenerateContentConfig(
    response_modalities=["IMAGE"],
    image_config=types.ImageConfig(
        aspect_ratio="16:9",  # options: 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16
        image_size="2K",      # options: 1K, 2K (default: 1K)
    ),
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 167 lines · 83 tokens per session scan B 5ef6fe6c6884

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nano-banana is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenMinis/MinisSkills (409 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,518 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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