coloring-book

coloring-book is a skill for Claude Code from taivop/marketplace. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns a story idea into a printable, wordless coloring-book PDF, with recurring characters and backgrounds based on real landmarks. It uses the OpenAI API and builds the book in stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create coloring books, coloring pages, or picture stories without words.
Why use it?
It removes the need to plan, draw, and assemble each coloring page by hand. Checking each stage helps catch character or image problems before they spread to later pages.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the coloring-book plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create coloring books, coloring pages, or picture stories without words.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/taivop/marketplace/coloring-book
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 taivop/marketplace --skill coloring-book
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/taivop/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coloring-book, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 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 $0.00057 $0.01071
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00107

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3c828fa67ab8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coloring-book 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 (pipeline.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/coloring-book/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coloring Book Generator

pipeline.py and spec.example.yaml live in this skill's directory (treat it as read-only — it may be an installed plugin). Everything the pipeline writes — spec.yaml, .env and the output/ tree — goes in a separate work directory. Create one for the book (e.g. ~/coloring-book/<title>/), cd into it, and run the script by its full path from there; the work directory defaults to the current directory (override with --workdir PATH or $COLORING_BOOK_DIR).

Drive pipeline.py stage by stage. The rule that matters: inspect each stage's images with Read before running the next stage — a bad character sheet poisons every page built from it. Fix at the earliest stage.

Setup

  • Make a work directory and cd into it. Copy the template: cp <skill-dir>/spec.example.yaml spec.yaml, then edit spec.yaml.
  • .env (in the work directory) with OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... (gitignored; ask if missing), or export OPENAI_API_KEY. Test the key with one cheap generation first — billing_hard_limit_reached or insufficient_quota mean the user must add credits, so stop and say so.
  • pip install -r <skill-dir>/requirements.txt.

Workflow

Gather story, characters (or invent), style, audience and page count into spec.yaml (copied from spec.example.yaml). Run stages in order from the work directory (python3 <skill-dir>/pipeline.py <stage>), reviewing each before the next. Paths below (output/...) are relative to the work directory:

Stage Command Review before continuing
1. Outline python3 pipeline.py outline Read output/outline.json. Story beats visual-only? Character descriptions specific enough to repeat verbatim? Every wanted landmark present (the model drops some — re-add in the JSON)? Add per-page landmark fields = exact English Wikipedia article titles.
2. Characters python3 pipeline.py characters Read each output/characters/*.png. Same features across poses? Species right? Fix by tightening the description in outline.json, then --only NAME.
3. Landmarks python3 pipeline.py landmarks Read each output/landmarks/*.png. Structure recognizable, proportions right? Aerial/map-style photos anchor badly — drop that page's landmark instead.
4. Pages python3 pipeline.py pages (slow — run in background) Read every page: no text anywhere; correct character count; each character's signature features present; landmark faithful. Redo one page with --page N.
5. PDF python3 pipeline.py postprocess && python3 pipeline.py pdf Deliver output/book.pdf with SendUserFile.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 74 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 3c828fa67ab8

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coloring-book is a skill published in the GitHub repository taivop/marketplace (17 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,071 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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