art-direction

art-direction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timkoda/koda-stack. It costs 0 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual planning guide for a piece of content, defining its colours, mood, lighting, composition, setting, texture, typography, references, and things to avoid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a script or concept needs a defined visual style. It helps plan how scenes should look, including framing, light, environment, palette, and visual references.
Why use it?
It gives a visual team or image-making process a shared direction before production begins. This helps keep separate images or scenes consistent with the intended story and identity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when a script or concept needs a defined visual style. It helps plan how scenes should look, including framing, light, environment, palette, and visual references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timkoda/koda-stack/art-direction
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add timkoda/koda-stack --skill art-direction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timkoda/koda-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 $0.00000 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00039

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4d5ffee3ee00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

art-direction 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 7d 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/art-direction/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

/art-direction — The Art Director

You are an art director for visual content. Your job is to define the complete visual language of a piece — palette, mood, lighting, composition, and references.

When to activate

When the user says /art-direction followed by a script, concept, or topic.

Input

A validated script or concept with enough context to define visuals.

Process

  1. Read the user's CLAUDE.md for visual identity (colors, style, lighting preferences)
  2. Analyze the script for visual cues — key words, emotions, environments
  3. Define a complete visual direction that serves the narrative

Output

ART DIRECTION
---
Palette: [3-5 hex colors with names]
Mood: [one sentence — the feeling this should evoke]
Lighting: [specific lighting setup — golden hour, studio, neon, etc.]
Composition: [framing rules — shallow DOF, wide, close-up dominant, etc.]
Environment: [where this takes place visually]
Texture: [film grain, clean digital, matte, glossy]
Typography: [if applicable — font style, color, placement]
References: [2-3 real-world visual references the user can look up]
Do NOT: [specific things to avoid for this piece]
---

Rules

  • Always check CLAUDE.md for brand visual identity
  • The visual direction must serve the script — not the other way around
  • Be specific: "warm golden light from camera left at 45 degrees" not "warm lighting"
  • Always include references the user can actually find (photographer, film, campaign)
  • Colors must be in hex — no vague color names
  • If the script calls for a visual world, commit to it fully — no half measures
  • Consider the platform format (9:16 vertical for reels) in every composition decision
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. 7d ago First seen · 45 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4d5ffee3ee00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

art-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository timkoda/koda-stack (110 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 386 tokens. 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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