Agent skill

Album Art Visualizer

by ad-repo in ad-repo/nullplayer

The Art window — the playing track's cover, its star rating, and 30 Core Image GPU effects (VIS) that transform the cover with the audio.

Custom licenceAuto-check passed

Install Album Art Visualizer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ad-repo/nullplayer --skill album-art-visualizer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ad-repo/nullplayer album-art-visualizer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ad-repo/nullplayer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/album-art-visualizer .claude/skills/album-art-visualizer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
album-art-visualizer
GitHub stars
158
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
810 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
40
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

The Art window — the playing track's cover, its star rating, and 30 Core Image GPU effects (VIS) that transform the cover with the audio.

  • Changing the Art window
  • SKILL.md covers Opening it, Using it, Effects (30) and How it works, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Its place in the window stack and skin families

What it does

Album Art Visualizer is an agent skill from ad-repo/nullplayer. The Art window — the playing track's cover, its star rating, and 30 Core Image GPU effects (VIS) that transform the cover with the audio. Use when changing the Art window, its effects, intensity, keys, menu, rating, artwork source, sizing, or its place in the window stack and skin families.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: nullPlayer is a free open source macOS media player with some unique features.

When your agent uses it

  • Changing the Art window
  • Its place in the window stack and skin families

Example prompts

  • “/album-art-visualizer”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3d87ce1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Album Art Visualizer loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 810 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 810 words (~1,638 tokens).

“A sub-window that follows the playing track: its cover, a star rating, and the VIS effects. It replaced the Library Browser's ART mode (M10, 2026-10). The browsers have no art view and no ART button any more.”

— opening of SKILL.md by ad-repo, Custom licence
name
album-art-visualizer

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/album-art-visualizer of ad-repo/nullplayer.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3d87ce1

Compare with similar skills

Album Art Visualizer next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Album Art Visualizer this skillad-repo/nullplayer158—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
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Visual Stylecalesthio/OpenMontage66k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
D3 Visualizationnexu-io/open-design100k—~523Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Algorithmic Artnexu-io/open-design100k—~351Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Art BibleDonchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios26k—~6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Album Art Visualizer

What does Album Art Visualizer do?

The Art window — the playing track's cover, its star rating, and 30 Core Image GPU effects (VIS) that transform the cover with the audio. Album Art Visualizer is an agent skill from ad-repo/nullplayer. The Art window — the playing track's cover, its star rating, and 30 Core Image GPU effects (VIS) that transform the cover with the audio.

When should I use Album Art Visualizer?

Album Art Visualizer fits situations like: changing the Art window; its place in the window stack and skin families.

How do I install Album Art Visualizer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ad-repo/nullplayer --skill album-art-visualizer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/album-art-visualizer in ad-repo/nullplayer) into .claude/skills/album-art-visualizer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Album Art Visualizer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ad-repo/nullplayer --skill album-art-visualizer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/album-art-visualizer in ad-repo/nullplayer) into .agents/skills/album-art-visualizer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Album Art Visualizer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ad-repo/nullplayer --skill album-art-visualizer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/album-art-visualizer, .gemini/skills/album-art-visualizer, .github/skills/album-art-visualizer and .opencode/skills/album-art-visualizer in your project.

What does Album Art Visualizer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Album Art Visualizer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Album Art Visualizer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Album Art Visualizer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Album Art Visualizer use?

Album Art Visualizer has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Album Art Visualizer use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Album Art Visualizer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Album Art Visualizer: Visualize (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars), Visual Style (calesthio/OpenMontage, 66k stars), D3 Visualization (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars) and Algorithmic Art (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Album Art Visualizer?

ad-repo (a GitHub user) maintains it in ad-repo/nullplayer, which has 158 GitHub stars. The repository holds 40 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: ad-repo/nullplayer on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.