article-illustrations

article-illustrations is a skill for Claude Code from STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,461 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of article-illustrations, MIT.

A visual-content guide for creating hand-drawn 16:9 illustrations that explain one important idea from an article or technical document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add illustrations to articles, blog posts, and documentation, especially when a visual metaphor can clarify a concept.
Why use it?
It helps turn abstract or difficult ideas into memorable visual explanations with a consistent sketch style.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add illustrations to articles, blog posts, and documentation, especially when a visual metaphor can clarify a concept.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/steliord/agentic-awesome-skills/article-illustrations
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 STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills --skill article-illustrations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,461 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 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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.01461
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00731
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00146

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5bc89e2e6794, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

article-illustrations 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 6d 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 article-illustrations — 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.

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/article-illustrations/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Article Illustrations — Grav Hand-Drawn Style

Overview

Generate 16:9 landscape hand-drawn illustrations for articles, blog posts, and technical content. Each illustration captures one cognitive anchor point from an article and turns it into a clean, absurd, memorable whiteboard-sketch explanation.

The skill uses a recurring character IP called Grav: a small, round, always-floating figure with dot eyes and a thin antenna. Grav participates in the core action of every illustration — never just decoration.

Repository: vipin-si/article-illustrations

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when writing articles, blog posts, or documentation that need inline illustrations
  • Use when you want to turn abstract concepts into concrete visual metaphors
  • Use when you want a consistent visual language across multiple articles
  • Use when you need hand-drawn explanation sketches, not PPT infographics

How It Works

Step 1: Digest the Article

Read the article and identify cognitive anchor points — core judgments, turning points, input/output loops, before/after contrasts, and common pitfalls. Don't distribute illustrations evenly; prioritize moments that benefit from visual explanation.

Step 2: Plan a Shot List

For each illustration, define:

  • Placement: After which section
  • Theme: What this image is about
  • Core Meaning: The one idea it conveys
  • Structure Type: One of 8 composition patterns (Workflow, System Closeup, Before/After, Role States, Conceptual Metaphor, Layered Method, Map Route, Mini Comic)
  • Grav's Action: What Grav is doing in the scene
  • Annotation Labels: 3–5 short English labels

Step 3: Generate Images

Use the generate_image tool with the built-in prompt template. Each image follows strict style rules:

  • Pure white background, no textures
  • Black hand-drawn line art with slight wobble
  • Sparse red/orange/blue handwritten annotations
  • Grav always floating (never touching surfaces)
  • One core idea per image
  • 40–60% canvas usage, 35%+ whitespace

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 6d ago First seen · 160 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 5bc89e2e6794

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article-illustrations is a skill published in the GitHub repository STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,461 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to article-illustrations, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.