thumbnails

thumbnails is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,046 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for making branded YouTube thumbnail images from approved photos, HTML templates, and brand rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create thumbnails with headline text, supporting text, and portrait or video-frame images.
Why use it?
It turns thumbnail creation into a repeatable process with layouts suited to client stories, interviews, and educational videos.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./generate-thumbnail.sh client-success ./output/new-thumb.jpg \.

Good fit Use it to create thumbnails with headline text, supporting text, and portrait or video-frame images.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s3yed/appie-kit/thumbnails

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,046 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 $0.00021 $0.01046
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00523
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00105

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6c309d5a40d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thumbnails 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (generate-thumbnail.sh), 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.

skills/content/thumbnails/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL.md - YouTube Thumbnail Generator

Generate YouTube thumbnails from approved portrait assets, HTML templates, and the project brand guidelines.

Assets Location

  • Approved portraits: $THUMBNAIL_PHOTO_DIR
    • closeup.jpg - Close-up face shot, best for thumbnails
    • speaking.jpg - Speaking/presenting pose
    • frame-01.jpg - source video frame
    • frame-02.jpg - source video frame
    • webcam.png - webcam screenshot
  • HTML templates: $THUMBNAIL_TEMPLATE_DIR
    • client-success.html - For client story videos (revenue numbers + face)
    • interview.html - For interview/conversation videos
    • educational.html - For tutorial/how-to videos
  • Generator script: $THUMBNAIL_GENERATOR
  • Full brand system: $THUMBNAIL_BRAND_SYSTEM

How to Generate a Thumbnail

Method 1: Puppeteer Script (Preferred)

cd "$THUMBNAIL_WORKDIR"
chmod +x generate-thumbnail.sh
./generate-thumbnail.sh <template> <output> --text-main "TEXT" --text-sub "TEXT" --face "$THUMBNAIL_FACE_IMAGE"

Examples:

# Client success story
./generate-thumbnail.sh client-success ./output/new-thumb.jpg \
  --text-main '$0 to $8K' --text-sub 'IN 30 DAYS' \
  --face $THUMBNAIL_FACE_IMAGE

# Interview thumbnail
./generate-thumbnail.sh interview ./output/interview.jpg \
  --text-main 'How I Built 3 AI Agents' --text-sub 'LIVE DEMO' \
  --face $THUMBNAIL_FACE_IMAGE

# Educational tutorial
./generate-thumbnail.sh educational ./output/tutorial.jpg \
  --text-main 'n8n + AI' --text-sub 'FULL TUTORIAL' \
  --face $THUMBNAIL_FACE_IMAGE

Method 2: AI Image Generation

When the Puppeteer script isn't enough (custom layouts, special effects), use the image_generate tool:

Prompt formula:

YouTube thumbnail, 1280x720, [SCENE DESCRIPTION].
Left side: photo of the approved presenter portrait,
wearing [OUTFIT]. Right side: bold white text "[3-5 WORDS]" on dark green
background (#031D16). Gold accent (#DFB771) highlight on key word.
Bottom right: small "<BRAND>" text in gold. High contrast, professional,
clean composition. No em dashes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 115 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 6c309d5a40d6

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thumbnails is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (9 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,046 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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