Synapse: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/cc-nano-banana/SKILL.md

nano-banana is a skill for Claude Code from zai-org/Synapse. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,402 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for generating and editing images with Nano Banana through the Gemini command line. It covers images such as thumbnails, icons, diagrams, patterns, illustrations, photos, and other visual assets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create blog headers, app icons, diagrams, repeating textures, comic strips, and other graphics, or to restore photos and remove image backgrounds.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a defined image-generation workflow instead of leaving the tool, command, or asset type unspecified.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Gemini CLI.

This is zai-org/Synapse's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Synapse itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Synapse configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zai-org/Synapse. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zai-org/Synapse/main/.agents/skills/cc-nano-banana/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zai-org/Synapse

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,402 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: 2 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 Excessive Agency · line 66
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 66
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00078 $0.01402
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00140

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8ca02bb1b57e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-banana 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/cc-nano-banana/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nano Banana Image Generation

Generate professional images via the Gemini CLI's nanobanana extension.

When to Use This Skill

ALWAYS use this skill when the user:

  • Asks for any image, graphic, illustration, or visual
  • Wants a thumbnail, featured image, or banner
  • Requests icons, diagrams, or patterns
  • Asks to edit, modify, or restore a photo
  • Uses words like: generate, create, make, draw, design, visualize

Do NOT attempt to generate images through any other method.

Before First Use

  1. Verify extension is installed:
    gemini extensions list | grep nanobanana
    
  2. If missing, install it:
    gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/nanobanana
    
  3. Verify API key is set:
    [ -n "$GEMINI_API_KEY" ] && echo "API key configured" || echo "Missing GEMINI_API_KEY"
    

Command Selection

User Request Command
"make me a blog header" /generate
"create an app icon" /icon
"draw a flowchart of..." /diagram
"fix this old photo" /restore
"remove the background" /edit
"create a repeating texture" /pattern
"make a comic strip" /story

Available Commands

Note: Always use the --yolo flag to automatically approve all tool actions.

Command Use Case
gemini --yolo "/generate 'prompt'" Text-to-image generation
gemini --yolo "/edit file.png 'instruction'" Modify existing image
gemini --yolo "/restore old_photo.jpg 'fix scratches'" Repair damaged photos
gemini --yolo "/icon 'description'" App icons, favicons, UI elements
gemini --yolo "/diagram 'description'" Flowcharts, architecture diagrams
gemini --yolo "/pattern 'description'" Seamless textures and patterns
gemini --yolo "/story 'description'" Sequential/narrative images
gemini --yolo "/nanobanana prompt" Natural language interface

Common Options

  • --yolo - Required. Auto-approve all tool actions (no confirmation prompts)
  • --count=N - Generate N variations (1-8)
  • --preview - Auto-open generated images
  • --styles="style1,style2" - Apply artistic styles
  • --format=grid|separate - Output arrangement

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 10d ago First seen · 150 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 8ca02bb1b57e

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nano-banana is a skill published in the GitHub repository zai-org/Synapse (507 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,402 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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