nano-banana-skill

nano-banana-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Yasuui/ystack. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to directing Nano Banana, an image-generation tool, to create branded marketing graphics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating thumbnails, brand graphics, Substack covers, X post backgrounds, and LinkedIn headers with a consistent visual style.
Why use it?
It turns vague image requests into detailed directions covering the subject, lighting, viewpoint, mood, composition, and unwanted elements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Creating thumbnails, brand graphics, Substack covers, X post backgrounds, and LinkedIn headers with a consistent visual style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yasuui/ystack/nano-banana-skill
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Yasuui/ystack --skill nano-banana-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yasuui/ystack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,161 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 $0.00071 $0.02161
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00864
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00216

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a6cba04001c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-banana-skill 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/market-soft-skill/nano-banana-skill/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nano Banana Skill

The Artist Mindset

Nano Banana is not a prompt box. It is a collaborator. The quality of output is entirely determined by the quality of direction. Vague prompts produce vague images. Specific direction produces specific results.

Before generating any image, answer these four questions:

  1. What is the exact subject? (not "a developer" — "a terminal window on a dark glass desk, partially reflected, 3/4 angle from the left")
  2. What is the lighting source? (not "good lighting" — "single cool blue rim light from the top-left, ambient fill from below in warm amber, no direct frontal fill")
  3. What is the camera relationship to the subject? (close-up, wide establishing, isometric, top-down, eye level, slightly below)
  4. What mood or decade does this reference? (Apple keynote 2020, early Stripe.com, Vercel 2023, editorial NYT tech section)

If you cannot answer all four, you are not ready to generate.


Prompt Architecture

Structure every prompt in this order:

[Subject description] + [spatial positioning] + [lighting] + [surface/material] +
[background treatment] + [color palette] + [mood/atmosphere] + [technical specs] +
[negative prompt]

The negative prompt is as important as the positive

Always include a negative prompt. The default negative prompt for all brand assets:

--no stock photography, watermark, lens flare, excessive bokeh, 
saturated gradients, cartoon, illustration style, human faces,
text overlaid, banner ads, corporate clipart, plugin icons,
emoji-style graphics, purple-to-blue AI gradient

Asset Types and Prompts

Substack Header Background

Goal: abstract, editorial, dark. The text sits on top — the background should not compete.

Prompt template:

Abstract architectural geometry, [specific material: brushed titanium / oxidized steel / dark concrete / 
smoked glass] surface, extreme close-up macro photography, shallow focus, cool ambient light from 
the left at 15 degrees, rich dark shadows, [accent color]-tinted atmospheric haze in the midground, 
no horizon line, no recognisable objects, mood: late-night studio, editorial, considered
--ar 16:9 --no text, faces, plants, logos, purple gradients, stock look

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A a6cba04001c4

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nano-banana-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yasuui/ystack (1 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,161 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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