image-generation

An image-generation guide for creating new images and editing saved image files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating illustrations, designs, or other images from text, making changes to existing images, and delivering the resulting image files.
Why use it?
It tells the coding agent when to use image tools, how to describe the requested result, and which earlier image to edit. This avoids unclear prompts and editing the wrong version.

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/render-examples/nanobot-render/image-generation
Any agent
npx skills add render-examples/nanobot-render --skill image-generation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/render-examples/nanobot-render

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 655 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00013 $0.00655
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6b93425db720, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-generation 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 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.

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

100% identical to image-generation — 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.

nanobot/skills/image-generation/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Generation

Use the generate_image tool when the user asks you to create, render, draw, design, generate, or edit an image.

If the generate_image tool is not available in the current tool list, tell the user that image generation is not enabled for this nanobot instance.

When To Use

  • Text-to-image: call generate_image with a concrete prompt.
  • Image editing: pass the saved artifact path or user image path in reference_images.
  • Iterative edits in the same conversation: prefer the most recent generated image artifact if the user says things like "make it brighter", "change the background", or "try another version".
  • Ambiguous edits: ask a short clarifying question if multiple recent images could be the target.
  • After generating images, call the message tool with the artifact paths in the media parameter to deliver them to the user.

Prompt Rules

Write prompts with enough detail for image models:

  • Subject and scene.
  • Composition and camera or layout.
  • Style, mood, lighting, and color palette.
  • Text that must appear in the image, quoted exactly.
  • Constraints such as "keep the same character", "preserve the logo", or "do not change the background".

Artifact Rules

The tool stores generated images as persistent artifacts under nanobot's media directory and returns structured metadata:

  • id: generated image id, such as img_ab12cd34ef56.
  • path: local file path for internal follow-up edits.
  • mime: image MIME type.
  • prompt, model, and source_images: provenance for follow-up edits.

In normal user-facing replies, do not expose local filesystem paths. Keep the reply natural, for example "Done, I generated it." You may include the short image id when it helps the user refer to a specific image, but keep raw path internal unless the user explicitly asks for debug details or a local artifact reference. Never paste base64.

For follow-up edits, pass the prior artifact path to reference_images. If the user provides a new uploaded image, use that path as the reference instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 6b93425db720

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository render-examples/nanobot-render (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 655 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to image-generation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.