comic-author

comic-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wanshuiyin/ARIS-Movie-Director. It costs 146 tokens per session (3,629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow that turns a rough movie or comic idea into a structured comic source file called comic.json and a fixed library of its visual assets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define intent and style, create an outline and storyboard, prepare artwork references and prompts, validate the project files, and hand the finished source to the next production stage.
Why use it?
It provides an ordered process and checkpoints for developing the story, visual style, scenes, and assets before production begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **End-to-end in one slash-command?** [`movie-pipeline`](../movie-pipeline/SKILL.md) is the single entry that.

Good fit Use it to define intent and style, create an outline and storyboard, prepare artwork references and prompts, validate the project files, and hand the finished source to the next production stage.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/ARIS-Movie-Director
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/aris-movie-director/comic-author

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,629 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00146 $0.03629
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01814
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00726
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00363

Measured 13d ago against content hash 41781d22c408, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comic-author 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 13d 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/comic-author/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

comic-author — the Pipeline-A Orchestrator (Phase 1)

The left third of Figure 1, as an agent-run workflow: a fuzzy idea → a comic.json + its locked asset library, so comic-director (Phase 2/3) bakes + adversarially verifies it. This skill is thin — it owns the ORDER, the BARRIERS, and the HAND-OFF; each step's real procedure lives in its own detailed skill.

End-to-end in one slash-command? movie-pipeline is the single entry that drives THIS skill (Phase 1) → the p0_proof gate → comic-director (Phase 2/3 bake) → viewer. comic-author is the Phase-1 half it calls; use it directly when you only want to author + lock the comic.json. The contract boundary to Phase 2/3 is comic.json + the assets it references (content-SVG blueprints, identity refs, ART_BIBLE.md).

How you "run" this — it is an AGENT workflow, not a shell CLI. You point your coding agent (Claude, Codex, …) at this skill; the agent FOLLOWS the steps below — authoring the wiki nodes and calling the few deterministic helper scripts that ARE real CLIs: comic-director/scripts/run_comic.py, cli/validate_wiki.py, comic-panel-prompt-builder/scripts/build_prompt.py. The --gate <kind> notations below are the agent PROCEDURE in comic-cross-layer-gate (fan out the cross-model reviewers → fuse → flip status) — not a binary you exec. This mirrors every ARIS skill: the SOP is the product, a coding agent is the runtime.

Two hard human gates (never auto-proceed): the intent and the outline are story decisions — the user must approve each before the next layer starts (the story-first rule; the gate is acceptance-gate). Everything downstream is agent-driven + cross-model gated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 13d ago First seen · 145 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 41781d22c408

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comic-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/ARIS-Movie-Director (61 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 3,629 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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