ph-thumbnail-creator

ph-thumbnail-creator is a skill for Claude Code from yoanbernabeu/producthunt-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,653 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing square images or GIFs used as Product Hunt thumbnails. Product Hunt is a website where new products are launched and discovered.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, create, or review a Product Hunt thumbnail or hover-activated GIF.
Why use it?
It helps make the product's purpose understandable when people scan a crowded homepage, while checking image size, format, readability, and animation rules.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ph-content plugin — 6 skills shipped together , and of ph-complete

Good fit Use it to plan, create, or review a Product Hunt thumbnail or hover-activated GIF.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yoanbernabeu/producthunt-skills/ph-thumbnail-creator
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 yoanbernabeu/producthunt-skills --skill ph-thumbnail-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yoanbernabeu/producthunt-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ph-content, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,653 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 $0.00040 $0.01653
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00826
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00165

Measured 11d ago against content hash 946144a18cbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ph-thumbnail-creator 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.

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/content/ph-thumbnail-creator/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Hunt Thumbnail Creator

This skill helps you create thumbnails that stop the scroll and make users click on your product in a crowded homepage feed.

When to Use This Skill

  • Designing your Product Hunt thumbnail
  • Deciding between static image vs GIF
  • Optimizing existing thumbnail for impact
  • Creating animated thumbnail concepts
  • Ensuring technical compliance

Technical Requirements

Dimensions

  • Recommended: 240 x 240 pixels
  • Minimum: 240 x 240 pixels
  • Aspect Ratio: 1:1 (square)
  • For better quality: Upload 600x600px (auto-scales)

File Specifications

Format Max Size Notes
PNG 3 MB Best for logos, graphics
JPG 3 MB Good for photos
GIF 3 MB Must not be too flashy

GIF Specific Rules

  • Animates on hover only (not autoplay)
  • First frame = default display image
  • No strobing effects
  • No quick cuts
  • Text must be readable
  • PH team may edit non-compliant GIFs

Thumbnail Strategy

The 3-Second Rule

Users spend ~3 seconds scanning the homepage. Your thumbnail must:

  1. Stop the scroll (visual differentiation)
  2. Communicate category (what type of product)
  3. Spark curiosity (reason to click)

Thumbnail Types

Type 1: Logo Only

Best for: Well-known brands, simple products

┌─────────────┐
│             │
│    LOGO     │
│             │
└─────────────┘

Pros: Clean, professional, brandable Cons: Doesn't show product, less engaging


Type 2: Product Screenshot

Best for: Apps with distinctive UI

┌─────────────┐
│  ┌───────┐  │
│  │ App   │  │
│  │ UI    │  │
│  └───────┘  │
└─────────────┘

Pros: Shows actual product, sets expectations Cons: Small space, may look cluttered


Type 3: Mascot/Character

Best for: Playful brands, consumer apps

┌─────────────┐
│             │
│   (◕‿◕)    │
│             │
└─────────────┘

Pros: Memorable, personality-driven Cons: Doesn't explain product

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 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. 11d ago First seen · 266 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 946144a18cbd

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ph-thumbnail-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository yoanbernabeu/producthunt-skills (18 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,653 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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