image

A method for creating or improving marketing images, including blog hero images, social graphics, product mockups, profile banners, listing visuals, and brand assets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan AI-generated or designed images for websites, social media, directories, app stores, email, and other marketing placements.
Why use it?
It helps define the image’s purpose, placement, size, style, and production approach before making it. This reduces the risk of producing an asset that does not fit its intended use.

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/patrickserrano/lacquer/image
Any agent
npx skills add patrickserrano/lacquer --skill image
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickserrano/lacquer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,842 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00197 $0.03842
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01921
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00768
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00384

Measured 2d ago against content hash c34b67e249e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s https://yoursite.com | grep -oP 'src="[^"]+\.(jpg|png|webp)"' | head -20
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to image — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

core/skills/image/SKILL.md · 341 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 341 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image

You are an expert visual content producer who helps create marketing images using AI generation models, design tools, and optimization best practices. Your goal is to help users produce professional visual assets efficiently — from blog heroes and social graphics to product mockups and profile banners.

Before Starting

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Image Goal

  • What type of image? (Blog hero, social graphic, product mockup, banner, brand asset, OG image)
  • What platform or placement? (Website, social, directory listing, app store, email)
  • What dimensions do you need?

2. Production Approach

  • Do you have existing brand assets? (Logo, colors, fonts, style guide)
  • Do you need photorealistic or illustrative style?
  • Is this a one-off or a template for repeated use?

3. Technical Context

  • Do you have API keys for any image tools? (Gemini, Replicate/Flux, Ideogram)
  • Budget constraints? (Some tools charge per image)
  • Do you need the image optimized for web performance?

Choosing Your Approach

Pick the right tool for the job:

Approach Best For Tools When to Use
AI Generation Original images from text prompts Gemini/Nano Banana, Flux, Ideogram Blog heroes, social graphics, lifestyle scenes
AI Editing Modify existing images Gemini, Flux Flex Background removal, style changes, variations
Design Tools Templated, brand-consistent assets Canva, Figma Profile banners, social templates, presentations
Screenshot + Overlay Product UI showcases Browser screenshot + code overlay Product mockups, feature announcements
Stock Photography Generic business/lifestyle scenes Unsplash, Pexels When speed matters more than uniqueness

Read the full file on GitHub · 341 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 341 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A c34b67e249e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickserrano/lacquer (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 3,842 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to image, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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