generating-images

generating-images is a skill for Claude Code from spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills. It costs 138 tokens per session (3,837 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guide for using OpenAI's Image API to generate or edit images. It covers prompts and reference images for visuals such as illustrations, icons, logos, mockups, and blog images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create new images or edit supplied images for websites, applications, marketing materials, and similar projects.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a defined process for making image assets instead of treating image generation as ordinary text or code work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create new images or edit supplied images for websites, applications, marketing materials, and similar projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills/generating-images
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.

Any agent
npx skills add spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills --skill generating-images
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,837 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 57
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 58
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 64
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 9
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 312
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00138 $0.03837
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01919
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00384

Measured 11d ago against content hash c05c80f33008, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generating-images 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_image.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

resources/generating-images/SKILL.md · 366 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 366 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generating Images (OpenAI gpt-image-2)

Use this skill any time the user asks to generate or edit an image. It wraps OpenAI's gpt-image-2 model via a Python script, supports both text-only prompts and one-or-more reference images, and writes the resulting PNG/JPEG/WebP to disk.

Hard rules (do not violate)

  1. Always use gpt-image-2. Never fall back to gpt-image-1, dall-e-3, or any other model. The script has no --model flag for this reason.
  2. Fail fast on any error. Do not retry, do not swap models, do not patch around missing credentials, do not silently degrade quality. If the script exits non-zero, surface the error to the user verbatim and stop.
  3. Do not "fix" a missing OPENAI_API_KEY by reading from .env files, 1Password, etc. unless the user explicitly tells you to. If the env var is missing, ask the user how they want to provide it (or to export it) and then stop.

When to use

  • User asks for a generated image: icon, logo, illustration, mockup, OG image, blog hero, marketing asset, concept art, diagram-style image, etc.
  • User provides one or more images and asks to edit, restyle, combine, or use them as references.
  • User asks to remove/replace part of an image (use --mask).

Do not use this skill for:

  • Charts/plots/data viz (generate via code instead).
  • Sourcing existing photos (use a stock photo skill if available).
  • Screenshots of the user's app (use a screenshot skill if available).

Prerequisites

1. OpenAI API key

You need an OPENAI_API_KEY exported in your environment. Get one at platform.openai.com/api-keys.

The skill ships with a .env.example next to this SKILL.md. Copy it and fill in your key:

cp .env.example .env
# then edit .env and put your real key in

Then export it before running the script:

set -a && source .env && set +a

Or just export it directly in your shell:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 366 lines

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 · 366 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A c05c80f33008

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generating-images is a skill published in the GitHub repository spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills (770 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 3,837 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.

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