x-banner-craft

x-banner-craft is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oscarsterling/clelp-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,492 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design and checking guide for X (formerly Twitter) profile header images. It covers the fixed banner canvas, areas that can be cropped on mobile, and placement of text and focal content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design profile banners, protect key content in the safe area, make one idea readable at small sizes, and validate desktop and mobile results.
Why use it?
It prevents important banner content from being hidden by mobile cropping, the profile avatar, or X’s interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design profile banners, protect key content in the safe area, make one idea readable at small sizes, and validate desktop and mobile results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oscarsterling/clelp-skills/x-banner-craft
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 oscarsterling/clelp-skills --skill x-banner-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oscarsterling/clelp-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,492 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 $0.00046 $0.01492
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00149

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8b4f8dc3d458, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x-banner-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/compose_banner.py, scripts/validate_banner.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.

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.

x-banner-craft/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

X Banner Craft

Actionable playbook for designing X (Twitter) profile header banners that survive real desktop and mobile rendering, not just a full-bleed canvas preview.

Canvas and geometry

  • Canvas is always 1500x500px (3:1 source aspect).
  • A center safe band of roughly x:150-1350, y:85-415 holds all copy and focal content. Outer margins crop first on mobile and under header chrome.
  • Lower-left is the avatar dead zone. The circular avatar overlaps this region (roughly x:0-320, y:260-500). Put nothing essential there.
  • Make the avatar pocket the darkest / richest part of the frame so the white avatar ring and white display name snap forward instead of dissolving into the background.

One idea, feed-thumbnail legibility

  • One focal idea per banner. Never a collage of products, logos, and slogans.
  • If the idea does not read at thumbnail size while scrolling a feed, it fails.
  • Treat the banner as a billboard seen in one glance, not a brochure.

Canva-derived craft checklist

These eight cues are distilled from banner-design best practice:

  1. Limited color palette - two to three intentional tones, not a rainbow.
  2. Generous negative space - let the idea breathe; do not fill every pixel.
  3. One clear message - a single setup/payoff beat, not a paragraph.
  4. Deliberate contrast - dark against light (or reverse) by design, not accident.
  5. Subtle texture or grain - never a flat-digital wash; a little noise adds depth.
  6. Blocks of color over busy detail - broad fields beat dense illustration.
  7. Do not complicate - cut elements until the frame feels inevitable.
  8. Know when enough is enough - stop before the last "clever" extra.

Also: pair design with photography rather than competing with it. The profile owner's avatar photo is the photography half of that pairing. The banner is the designed stage; the face is the subject.

Contrast-against-the-avatar rule

Before picking a palette, look at the actual avatar photo's value range and hue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 12d ago First seen · 145 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 8b4f8dc3d458

Subscribe to this mod's changes

x-banner-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository oscarsterling/clelp-skills (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,492 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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