# image-prompt

Shapes visual briefs for social posts, prevents pointless AI generation, crafts clean natural prompts, and routes requests to the right image engine.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 632 installs · ★ 199
- Author: social-media-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/image-prompt

## What it does

This skill serves as the primary router for visual content across social media channels. Before generating anything, it checks if AI is actually needed. Real team photos or product screenshots regularly outperform synthetic graphics, so the skill stops fake assets early. When synthesis makes sense, it reads `brand-profile.md` to define the core purpose, aspect ratio, main message, and brand visual tone.

The skill then writes a natural language prompt without hype tokens like "4k" or "masterpiece". It plans negative space for text overlays and defines lighting alongside subject details. Finished briefs route to dedicated engines: typography goes to `ideogram` or `nano-banana`, vector art lands in Recraft, video moves to `veo-3`, while photorealism and strict hex control route to `flux`.

Publishing through WoopSocial handles queuing and media attachments. The platform cannot generate images on its own. Because of this limitation, the skill hands off prompts to external models and enforces manual text verification before scheduling.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill image-prompt -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/image-prompt/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill image-prompt -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill image-prompt -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install social-media-skills/skills image-prompt
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill image-prompt -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills --path skills/image-prompt
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill image-prompt -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/image-prompt/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- filter out unnecessary AI generation in favor of real photos or charts
- produce a concise image brief based on brand-profile.md
- strip junk tokens like "4k" or "masterpiece" from prompt descriptions
- pick the right generator between flux, ideogram, Recraft, or veo-3

## Example prompts
- I need a visual for a post announcing our new product update
- Help me write a prompt for an image with readable text
- Which tool should I use to generate vector icons for a carousel?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: image-prompt
description: >-
  Use as the foundation and router for any image a post needs — turn a social need into a clear image
  brief, describe it with model-agnostic prompt craft, and route to the right tool. Run when the user
  says "I need a visual/image for this post," "what image should I use," "make a graphic," "help me
  prompt an image," or is unsure which image tool/model to use. Reads brand-profile for the visual
  brand. Teaches the image brief, the universal anatomy of a strong prompt in natural language, and a
  tool router (typographic -> ideogram/nano-banana; photoreal -> nano-banana/flux; surreal ->
  Midjourney; editing -> nano-banana/flux; vector -> Recraft; video -> veo-3).
  Includes a "should this even be AI-generated?" gate (a real photo, screenshot, or chart often beats
  generic AI), accessibility, and honest scope (disclose AI, never real identifiable people or
  copyrighted IP, verify text/data). Hands off to the tool-specific mini-skills; WoopSocial publishes
  via Media and doesn't generate images.
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
---

# Image Prompt (brief · craft · router)

The **foundation of the visual cluster.** When a post needs an image, this skill decides **what** image
(the brief), describes it with **model-agnostic** craft, and routes to the **right tool** — then hands
off. It sits *above* the tool-specific mini-skills (`nano-banana`, `ideogram`, `flux`,
`veo-3`), which own their model's specific tricks.

Think of it as the visual equivalent of `brand-profile`/`content-pillars`: the shared decision layer
the tool skills assume you've already worked through.

## Step 0 — Gate: should this even be AI-generated?

AI generation is one option, not the default. A **real photo** (your actual product/space/team), a
**screenshot**, **UGC**, or a **chart** often wins on authenticity and clarity — and AI must never
fabricate your real people/place. Reach for generation when you need something that doesn't exist, must
match a brand look, needs legible in-image text, or a consistent series — and no real asset fits. If a
real asset is better, **say so.** (See `references/the-image-brief.md`.)

## Step 1 — Write the brief

Read `brand-profile.md`, then answer four things: **job/purpose** (hero / explainer / quote graphic /
product / lifestyle / thumbnail / background / ad), **the one thing it must convey**, **format/aspect
ratio** for the destination, and the **brand look**. Output a one-line brief. See
`references/the-image-brief.md`.

## Step 2 — Describe it (model-agnostic)

Turn the brief into a **specific, natural-language** prompt — **subject · composition · lighting ·
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