illustration-prompt
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Turn a vague image request into a generator-ready illustration prompt for Midjourney, DALL-E, Flux, Stable Diffusion, or similar tools. Use when the user needs visual direction, prompt structure, or reference-aware image prompting rather than image generation code.
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- Nankov-ai/anthropics-skillstheir own version, first seen Sep 11, 2026
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- Nankov-ai/anthropics-skills★ 0same name
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- Distinctive
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- Distinctive: line 10
Do not use when: the user already has a finished prompt or wants direct generation without prompt design.
- Very specific: line 18
If references are present, summarize what should be borrowed and what should not.
- Very specific: line 25
Default to no text in the image unless the user explicitly asks for text.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Illustration Prompt
Metadata
- Trigger when: the real work is turning a visual idea plus references into a high-quality prompt.
- Do not use when: the user already has a finished prompt or wants direct generation without prompt design.
Skill Purpose
Translate vague visual intent into a concrete, reference-aware prompt that a generator can follow without leaning on hand-wavy adjective soup.
Instructions
- Lock the brief in this order: placement/context, style family, detail density, references, scene, palette/mood, and format. Collapse questions that the conversation already answered; do not re-interview for sport.
- If references are present, summarize what should be borrowed and what should not. Read
~/.codex/skills/illustration-prompt/references/reference-analysis.mdwhen you need the reference-reading checklist and~/.codex/skills/illustration-prompt/references/prompt-template.mdfor the 8-block prompt structure. - Return one structured prompt in English plus a short filename and only the minimal model-specific tweak when it materially changes the result. If the user wants actual generation afterward, hand off to whatever image-generation tool is available in the current environment.
Non-Negotiable Acceptance Criteria
- References and explicit scene constraints outrank decorative adjectives.
- Conflicting references are called out instead of blended into fake coherence.
- Perspective, composition, palette, material cues, and count-sensitive objects are concrete when they matter.
- Default to
no textin the image unless the user explicitly asks for text.
Output
- A short kebab-case filename.
- One structured English prompt using the 8-block format.
- An optional short generator note only when a model-specific tweak genuinely matters.
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