illustration

illustration is a skill for Claude Code from stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box. It costs 68 tokens per session (373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An illustration skill for creating hand-drawn explainer images featuring Popa, a pink blob with a green sprout and notepad.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making diagrams, article illustrations, README visuals, slide graphics, system explainers, and shot lists.
Why use it?
It turns technical or product ideas into structured visual notes with linked boxes, arrows, and icons.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the illustration plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Making diagrams, article illustrations, README visuals, slide graphics, system explainers, and shot lists.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box
Claude Code
/plugin install illustration

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install illustration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for illustration

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box/illustration/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box/illustration)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box/illustration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box/illustration/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for illustration

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box/illustration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box/illustration.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 373 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 $0.00068 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00037

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7c82de406edb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

illustration 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.

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.

plugins/illustration/skills/illustration/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Illustration

Generate explanatory illustrations starring Popa as intricate hand-drawn sketchnotes. This bare skill is an alias for illustration:popa — hand it straight there.

  • illustration:popa — Popa, a cute pink blob with a green sprout and a notepad. Intricate hand-drawn sketchnotes: a banner, many linked boxes/notes/arrows/icons on a soft pastel scene — busy but legible. Best for dev/product/system explainers, how-it-works, architecture, walkthroughs, friendly social.

Engine

Popa follows ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/workflow-engine.md (digest → shot list → per-image generation → QA → deliver) and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/composition-patterns.md (structure types, format presets, the likeness rule). The popa sub-skill supplies the visual DNA, IP anchors, and reference images.

Adding a mascot

To add another character later, create skills/<mascot>/ with SKILL.md (name illustration:<mascot>), references/ (<mascot>-ip.md, <mascot>-style-dna.md, prompt-template.md, qa-checklist.md), and assets/<mascot>-ref/ + assets/examples/. The plugin exposes it automatically.

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 · 20 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 7c82de406edb

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illustration is a skill published in the GitHub repository stevengonsalvez/agents-in-a-box (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 373 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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