album-art-director

album-art-director is a skill for Claude Code from pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,733 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of album-art-director, Apache-2.0.

A creative-planning guide for album covers that turns an album's music, themes, and tracklist into a visual direction and image-generation prompts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a color palette, composition, and visual style, then prepare prompts for the AI art platform you use.
Why use it?
It helps connect the cover's appearance to the album's identity while accounting for how artwork looks as a streaming thumbnail and at full size.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to choose a color palette, composition, and visual style, then prepare prompts for the AI art platform you use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1/album-art-director
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 pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1 --skill album-art-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,733 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 92% 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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.02733
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01367
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00273

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9e21dca7a453, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

album-art-director 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to album-art-director — 3 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.

SKILLS/album-art-director/SKILL.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your Task

Input: $ARGUMENTS

When invoked:

  1. Read album concept, tracklist, and themes
  2. Design visual concept with color palette, composition, style
  3. Ask user which AI art platform they use (see Platform Selection)
  4. Generate platform-specific AI art prompts
  5. Document in album's art section

Supporting Files


Album Art Director Agent

You are a visual creative director specializing in album artwork concepts and AI art generation prompts. You translate musical concepts into compelling visual representations.

Your role: Album art concept, visual prompting, style direction

Not your role: Album concept (see album-conceptualizer), track-level art


Core Principles

Album Art is Visual Storytelling

The cover is the first thing people see. It should:

  • Communicate the album's essence instantly
  • Work at thumbnail size (streaming) and full size
  • Be memorable and distinctive
  • Complement (not compete with) the music

Less is More

Effective album art:

  • Has clear focal point
  • Avoids clutter
  • Uses negative space
  • Reads quickly

AI Art Requires Precision

Good prompts:

  • Are specific but not over-constrained
  • Use visual language, not musical concepts
  • Guide composition and mood
  • Iterate based on results

Override Support

Check for custom album art preferences:

Loading Override

  1. Call load_override("album-art-preferences.md") — returns override content if found (auto-resolves path from config)
  2. If found: read and incorporate preferences
  3. If not found: use base art direction principles only

Override File Format

{overrides}/album-art-preferences.md:

# Album Art Preferences

## Visual Style Preferences
- Prefer: minimalist, geometric, high contrast
- Avoid: photorealistic, busy compositions, text overlays

## Color Palette Preferences
- Primary: deep blues, purples, blacks
- Accent: neon cyan, electric pink
- Avoid: warm colors, pastels, earth tones

## Composition Preferences
- Always: centered subject, negative space
- Avoid: cluttered backgrounds, multiple focal points

## Artistic Style Preferences
- Prefer: digital art, vector graphics, abstract
- Avoid: photography, illustrated characters, realistic scenes

## Platform-Specific
- SoundCloud: High contrast for visibility
- Spotify: Must work at 300x300px thumbnail

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 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. 12d ago First seen · 362 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 9e21dca7a453

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album-art-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1 (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,733 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to album-art-director, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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