image-craft

image-craft is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas. It costs 3 tokens per session (806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image art-direction guide for deciding a subject, visual style, composition, distinctive details, and typography before creating original artwork.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an image needs original art direction, restyling, or clarification of its intended look. Do not use it for simple crops, resizing, format changes, background removal, or narrowly defined edits.
Why use it?
It gives an underspecified image a clear visual direction and keeps those decisions in the standard image manifest.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when an image needs original art direction, restyling, or clarification of its intended look. Do not use it for simple crops, resizing, format changes, background removal, or narrowly defined edits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas/image-craft
About the project

Orkas is a desktop application for commanding a team of AI agents through one chat, with a commander model assigning work to specialist agents in parallel or in sequence. People use it to coordinate research, writing, presentations, and software tasks while keeping files on their computer. The catalogue includes skills for extending the agents available to Orkas.

Orkas-AI/Orkas · 2,337 stars · on GitHub · orkas.ai

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 Orkas-AI/Orkas --skill image-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 806 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00003 $0.00806
Opus 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00081

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1c93ce8e0a84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-craft 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.

resources/builtin/marketplace/agents/814b61b027f0/skills/image-craft/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Craft

Read this skill only after route lock when the task needs original art direction, restyling, or clarification of an underspecified look. Skip it for crop, resize, format conversion, background removal, deterministic placement, or a narrow edit whose visual system is already defined.

Art-direction pass

Populate the following seven fields inside the canonical image-manifest.json template's art_direction object; never place them at the manifest top level:

  1. subject_world: the concrete subject, setting, era, material culture, and audience expectation.
  2. one_job: the single thing the image must communicate at thumbnail size.
  3. visual_tradition: a real visual tradition or production language, not only mood adjectives.
  4. composition: focal point, camera or viewing angle, scale relationships, negative space, and reading order.
  5. signature_device: one memorable subject-specific device that prevents a generic template result.
  6. typography: type role, casing, weight, width, tracking, and copy hierarchy when text is present. Default English titles to sentence case or natural title case and body/supporting copy to sentence case. Preserve all caps only when exact user-approved copy or an external brand/source requires it, and limit it to one short metadata label, acronym, or code. A generic tech, editorial, premium, or cinematic mood never authorizes all caps.
  7. color_light_material: palette roles, light direction/quality, surface character, and depth treatment.

Write visual clichés, unwanted objects, misleading claims, garbled text, and style failures to avoid in brief.must_avoid.

Reject vague defaults such as “modern, premium, cinematic” unless each word is translated into visible choices. Prefer one strong thesis over a collage of styles.

For a multi-image set, define this art direction once for the set instead of independently re-expanding the style for every member. Treat the first produced image as the style anchor. Model-produced artifacts rely on the image service; authored compositions follow the current artifact review handoff. Later images may change their subject-specific content and local composition, but must carry forward the anchor's palette roles, typography roles, spacing/grid rhythm, shape and icon language, material treatment, and signature device unless the user explicitly requests a variation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 Changed · +5 lines 1c93ce8e0a84
  2. 1mo ago Changed df2616135df0
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 935121eec642

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas (2,337 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 806 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.