design-youtube-channel-art

design-youtube-channel-art is a skill for Claude Code from slogsdon/skills-design. It costs 116 tokens per session (2,722 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating a YouTube channel banner with both the full upload area and a safe-zone preview. The safe zone is the central part that remains visible when YouTube crops the banner differently on phones, computers, and TVs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make cross-device channel art with a channel name, tagline, category labels, or social handle.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a logo, channel name, or tagline from being cut off on some screens.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is test -f ./design/<brand-slug>/tokens.css.

Part of the skills-design plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to make cross-device channel art with a channel name, tagline, category labels, or social handle.

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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/slogsdon/skills-design
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/slogsdon/skills-design/design-youtube-channel-art

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,722 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 $0.00116 $0.02722
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.01361
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00272

Measured 12d ago against content hash 40ada880bc7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-youtube-channel-art 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.

skills/design-youtube-channel-art/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: youtube-channel-art

Produces a single self-contained HTML file containing two pixel-exact canvases:

  1. Full banner (2560×1440) — the TV-display-ready full asset that uploads to YouTube
  2. Safe zone preview (1546×423) — what mobile + desktop visitors actually see; ALL critical content must sit inside this zone

YouTube renders the same banner asset at vastly different aspect ratios across devices (TV uses the full 2560×1440; desktop crops to a wide letterbox; mobile crops to a tighter rectangle). The safe zone is the only region guaranteed visible everywhere. Brand mark + tagline live in the safe zone; the wider canvas extends with breathing room (or texture, or extension of brand surface) that TV viewers see.

When to use

  • User runs a YouTube channel and needs banner art that works across TV / desktop / mobile
  • A DESIGN.md exists for the brand

Inputs

  • Required: brand slug, channel name (or wordmark text)
  • Required: tagline (1 line, max ~10 words; sentence-case ending in period per brand voice)
  • Optional: category labels (e.g. "field notes · payments · platforms"), social handle for footer
  • Optional: secondary cue (e.g. upload schedule "new every Tuesday.")

Output

./design/<brand-slug>/artifacts/youtube-channel-art-YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.html

Steps

1. Verify brand exists

test -f ./design/<brand-slug>/tokens.css

2. Gather the brief

Ask in one message:

1. Channel name / wordmark
2. Tagline — 1 line, max 10 words, sentence-case ending in period
3. Optional category strip — short topic labels separated by mid-dot
4. Optional secondary cue — upload schedule or call-to-action
5. Social handle (optional, footer position)

If the user gives 11+ words for the tagline, push back: "It needs to fit in the 1546×423 safe zone with breathing room. What's the line that lands?" Don't proceed until they agree.

3. Pick variation — apply CONSISTENTLY to both canvases

The full banner and safe zone preview must show the same content treatment — they're the same asset rendered at different framings. Pick ONE:

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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. 12d ago First seen · 227 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 40ada880bc7f

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design-youtube-channel-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository slogsdon/skills-design (3 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 2,722 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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