youtube-cover-generator

youtube-cover-generator is a skill for Codex from shaomingchan/whiteboard. It costs 58 tokens per session (520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image-generation workflow for YouTube thumbnails and video covers. It follows a fixed editorial whiteboard style and can adapt the cover to platforms such as Bilibili.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a YouTube thumbnail, a video cover, a Chinese social-media cover, or a Bilibili cover from a title, subject, context, and timeline.
Why use it?
It keeps covers made for the same project visually consistent and provides a repository-based process for generating them. It also records the prompt used for each image.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create a YouTube thumbnail, a video cover, a Chinese social-media cover, or a Bilibili cover from a title, subject, context, and timeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaomingchan/whiteboard/youtube-cover-generator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shaomingchan/whiteboard --skill youtube-cover-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shaomingchan/whiteboard

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 520 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.00520
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00052

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9e484a38a8f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-cover-generator 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_cover.py), 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/youtube-cover-generator/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

YouTube Cover Generator

Generate covers through the repository wrapper instead of writing a new prompt or calling an image API directly.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the repository was bootstrapped and AI302_KEY is configured.
  2. Extract a concise title, one optional numeric/hook badge, a central subject, an origin scene, a modern consequence scene, and up to six timeline labels from the transcript.
  3. Run scripts/generate_cover.py from this skill directory. Default to youtube when the user does not name a platform.
  4. Check that the image and .prompt.txt file exist. Report both absolute paths.
python skills/youtube-cover-generator/scripts/generate_cover.py `
  --platform youtube `
  --title "Main Chinese title" `
  --subtitle "Core hook or number" `
  --topic "Short content summary" `
  --subject "central visual subject" `
  --left-context "historical origin scene" `
  --right-context "modern consequence scene" `
  --timeline "Milestone 1|Milestone 2|Milestone 3|Today" `
  --output output/covers/example_youtube.png

Use --dry-run --print-prompt to validate the prompt without spending API credits.

Locked Style

  • Keep a flat warm off-white #F6F1E3 background.
  • Use dark charcoal marker lines and restrained amber accents.
  • Use abstract faceless circular-headed people with no hair or facial features.
  • Let the illustration dominate; use only one title, one optional badge, and short timeline labels.
  • Do not add paragraphs, dense Chinese text, photorealism, 3D, gradients, texture, white patches, or cutout boxes.
  • Change only composition and canvas dimensions between platforms; do not invent a new art direction.

Platform Presets

  • youtube, bilibili, wechat: 1280x720
  • xiaohongshu: 1440x1920
  • douyin, kuaishou: 1080x1920

Use explicit --width and --height only when the delivery platform requires a different size.

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. 11d ago First seen · 48 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 9e484a38a8f3

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youtube-cover-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository shaomingchan/whiteboard (49 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 520 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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