blog-cover-generator

blog-cover-generator is a skill for Claude Code from Varnan-Tech/opendirectory. It costs 52 tokens per session (973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for generating 16:9 cover images for blog posts and technical articles, using typography, brand logos, local visual references, and current web context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for blog covers, thumbnails, and article header images when the required command-line tool and API keys are configured.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to create article headers without designing each image from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the opendirectory plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for blog covers, thumbnails, and article header images when the required command-line tool and API keys are configured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/varnan-tech/opendirectory/blog-cover-image-cli
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 Varnan-Tech/opendirectory --skill blog-cover-image-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Varnan-Tech/opendirectory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opendirectory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 973 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: 8 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 22
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    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 29
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 37
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 54
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00052 $0.00973
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00097

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9cb3165d4f56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blog-cover-generator 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 8d 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/blog-cover-image-cli/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blog Cover Generator Skill

This skill provides AI agents with the ability to generate stunning, minimalist, technical blog cover images using the blog-cover-image-cli. The CLI leverages Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, automatically fetches brand logos from domains, uses local aesthetic reference images, and employs Google Search grounding to inject real-time context.

Setup & Configuration

Agent Pre-requisites: Before using this tool, verify it is installed. If blog-cover-cli --help fails, install it globally:

npm install -g blog-cover-image-cli

If the user wants you to generate an image and you haven't set up the API key yet, you must first configure the CLI using a Gemini API Key. The CLI stores this securely via the conf package.

# 1. Set your Gemini API Key (Required for image generation)
npx -p blog-cover-image-cli blog-cover-cli config set-key <YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY>

# 2. Set your Brandfetch Client ID (Required to fetch high-res logos)
npx -p blog-cover-image-cli blog-cover-cli config set-brandfetch-id <YOUR_BRANDFETCH_CLIENT_ID>

# Check your keys (masked)
npx -p blog-cover-image-cli blog-cover-cli config get-key
npx -p blog-cover-image-cli blog-cover-cli config get-brandfetch-id

Usage: Generating an Image

When a user asks for a cover image (e.g., "Create a cover image for my blog about Vercel v0"), you should use the generate command.

npx -p blog-cover-image-cli blog-cover-cli generate -t "The Title of the Blog Post" -l "example.com"

Arguments

  • -t, --title <text>: (Required) The title text to display on the cover image. Do not use excessively long titles (keep it under 3 lines of text visually).
  • -l, --logo <domain>: (Optional but recommended) The domain to fetch the brand logo from (e.g., vercel.com, google.com, cursor.com). The CLI automatically converts WebP/SVG/AVIF to PNG for compatibility.
  • -o, --output <path>: (Optional) The file path where the generated image will be saved. If omitted, the CLI automatically saves it to an output/ directory in the current working folder (e.g., ./output/vercel-cover.png).

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 72 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 9cb3165d4f56

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blog-cover-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Varnan-Tech/opendirectory (635 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 973 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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