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.
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill art-directiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/art-direction)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/art-direction"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/art-direction.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00132 | $0.02059 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00066 | $0.01030 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00412 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00206 |
Grade A, and why
art-direction 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Art Direction
Direct creative work that extends the brand into specific deliverables. Photography, illustration, video, motion, campaigns, environmental design.
This skill assumes brand identity is approved (brand-identity complete). Art direction is about applying and extending it, not defining it.
When to use
- Briefing photographers, illustrators, videographers
- Developing campaign creative concepts
- Directing in-house creative teams
- Writing creative direction documents for vendors
- Evaluating creative deliverables for brand fit
- Adapting brand visual identity to a new format or context
When NOT to use
- Setting project-wide aesthetic direction across multiple downstream skills (use
creative-directioninstead). This skill briefs specific creative deliverables;creative-directionproduces the structured aesthetic brief that this skill consumes. - Defining brand visual identity from scratch (use
brand-identity) - Day-to-day component design (use
design-standards) - Writing copy for creative work (use
content-and-copyorlanding-page-copy) - Building a design system (use
design-system)
Required inputs
- The deliverable (photo shoot, illustration set, video, campaign)
- The brand identity (visual system, voice, imagery direction)
- The audience for this specific work
- The goal (brand awareness, conversion, education, emotional connection)
- Budget and timeline
- Distribution context (where it will be seen)
The framework: 5 layers
A creative brief covers five layers. Each must be clear before the brief leaves your hands.
1. The story
What this creative work is fundamentally about.
- The premise. The core idea in one sentence.
- The emotional through-line. What the audience feels.
- The role of the brand. How the brand shows up in the story.
- The takeaway. What the audience walks away with.
A weak premise produces work that's pretty but says nothing. Spend time here.
2. The look
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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 200 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 3444cf2c4b93
art-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (826 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 2,059 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.
Other skills, from other repositories
brand-identity
Brand strategy and identity design for businesses and products. Use when creating brand guidelines, developing visual identity systems, or defining brand positioning.
graphic-design
Professional graphic design principles for digital and print media. Use when creating visual designs, choosing color palettes, typography, layouts, or providing design feedback.
canvas-design
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
baoyu-infographic
An infographic generator that turns supplied content into a visual summary using different information layouts and visual styles. It supports standard and custom image proportions and multiple languages.
flier
Design a print-ready, single-page flier as one self-contained HTML file: exactly one fixed-size page.
visualize
Render a polished visual inline in the chat as part of your answer — a diagram, a chart, an interactive explainer, or a UI mockup. Load it proactively whenever an explanation would land better as a picture than as prose. Do not wait to be asked.