Agent skill

Character Casting Studio

by dacnay816y62-hub in dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill

Create original, material-reference-driven, consistent, photorealistic character casting sheets for commercial, advertising, cinematic, model, occupational, everyday, historical…

No licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Character Casting Studio

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill --skill character-casting-studio -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill character-casting-studio --agent claude-code

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

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

Facts

Skill name
character-casting-studio
GitHub stars
126
Token cost
~6.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
3,248 words
Files
18 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Create original, material-reference-driven, consistent, photorealistic character casting sheets for commercial, advertising, cinematic, model, occupational, everyday, historical…

  • Works in 2 steps: Default: Generate the Person → On-Demand: Character Breakdown /…
  • The user wants a designed person
  • SKILL.md covers Core Direction, Input Handling, Source Material Gate and Batch Identity Diversity Gate, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Character Casting Studio is an agent skill from dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill. Create original, material-reference-driven, consistent, photorealistic character casting sheets for commercial, advertising, cinematic, model, occupational, everyday, historical, traditional-cultural, literary, or lightly fantastical character concepts. Use when the user wants a designed person, a casting reference, a character asset sheet, a model card, or a single image containing front, side, back, and facial-detail views with coherent identity, wardrobe, body type, source-material synthesis, and photographic…

Its SKILL.md is about 6.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 21 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/character-casting-studio-v1.1-face-realism-patch.md`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Model hubs and datasets. The repository describes itself as: Material-reference-driven photorealistic character casting skill for Codex.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants a designed person
  • A casting reference
  • A character asset sheet
  • A single image containing front

Example prompts

  • “/character-casting-studio”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Default: Generate the Person
  2. On-Demand: Character Breakdown / Multi-View Asset

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7781a50. 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

Character Casting Studio loads about 6.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~13k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 138 tokens; SKILL.md has 3,248 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~138
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~13k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 3,248 words (~6,622 tokens).

“Use this skill to turn a natural-language character brief into an original, reusable human character asset. Treat the result as a casting sheet or character design reference, not as a random portrait.”

— opening of SKILL.md by dacnay816y62-hub
name
character-casting-studio

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 17 other files (references) in the repository root of dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill.

  • SKILL.md
  • .gitignore
  • README.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • examples/character-gallery/d11cbfa6-39a7-4621-aafc-09a0501ef4b1.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032454-1-b4f1cb97.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032455-1-98e784b3.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032458-1-0b2a9558.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032458-1-78f62101.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032458-1-7ea3f6fa.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032818-1-2a9c2a8b.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032831-1-5e194982.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032832-1-d9168ce0.png
  • examples/character-gallery/maliang-20260819-032851-1-f0969682.png
  • references/character-casting-studio-v1.1-face-realism-patch.md
  • references/character-casting-studio-v1.1.1-clean-cinematic-portrait-patch.md
  • references/material-reference-library.md
  • … and 1 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7781a50

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Questions about Character Casting Studio

What does Character Casting Studio do?

Create original, material-reference-driven, consistent, photorealistic character casting sheets for commercial, advertising, cinematic, model, occupational, everyday, historical…. Character Casting Studio is an agent skill from dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill. Create original, material-reference-driven, consistent, photorealistic character casting sheets for commercial, advertising, cinematic, model, occupational, everyday, historical, traditional-cultural, literary, or lightly fantastical character concepts.

When should I use Character Casting Studio?

Character Casting Studio fits situations like: the user wants a designed person; A casting reference; A character asset sheet; A single image containing front.

How do I install Character Casting Studio in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill --skill character-casting-studio -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (the dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill repository) into .claude/skills/character-casting-studio in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Character Casting Studio in Codex?

Run `npx skills add dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill --skill character-casting-studio -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (the dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill repository) into .agents/skills/character-casting-studio in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Character Casting Studio 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 dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill --skill character-casting-studio -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/character-casting-studio, .gemini/skills/character-casting-studio, .github/skills/character-casting-studio and .opencode/skills/character-casting-studio in your project.

What does Character Casting Studio need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Character Casting Studio is instructions for the agent only.

Does Character Casting Studio 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 Character Casting Studio 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 Character Casting Studio use?

No licence was found for Character Casting Studio or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Character Casting Studio use?

About 6.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 26k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Character Casting Studio?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Character Casting Studio: LLM Benchmarking with lm-evaluation-harness (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars), SageMaker Serving Image Selection (huggingface/skills, 11k stars), Hugging Face Local Model Evals (huggingface/skills, 11k stars) and Upload Post Image (huggingface/blog, 3.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Character Casting Studio?

dacnay816y62-hub (a GitHub user) maintains it in dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill, which has 126 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.

Source: dacnay816y62-hub/character-casting-studio-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.