Image Generation
onyx-dot-app/onyx
Generate or edit raster images (photos, illustrations, textures, sprites, mockups, logos, infographics) using the workspace's configured image-generation provider via onyx-cli image.
Art-direct and generate one high-craft minimal-zine bitmap from a landscape, portrait, person, object, product, food, plant, building, interior, photograph, mood, sentence, or article concept.
Install Paper Signal Art Director
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-art-director --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-art-director .claude/skills/paper-signal-art-director && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "paper-signal-art-director" agent skill from https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-director into .claude/skills/paper-signal-art-director/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paper-signal-art-director", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-directorType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-art-director --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-art-director .agents/skills/paper-signal-art-director && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "paper-signal-art-director" agent skill from https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-director into .agents/skills/paper-signal-art-director/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paper-signal-art-director", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-art-director --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-art-director .cursor/skills/paper-signal-art-director && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "paper-signal-art-director" agent skill from https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-director into .cursor/skills/paper-signal-art-director/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paper-signal-art-director", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git --path skills/paper-signal-art-director--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-art-director --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-art-director .gemini/skills/paper-signal-art-director && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "paper-signal-art-director" agent skill from https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-director into .gemini/skills/paper-signal-art-director/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paper-signal-art-director", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-art-directorInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-art-director .github/skills/paper-signal-art-director && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "paper-signal-art-director" agent skill from https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-director into .github/skills/paper-signal-art-director/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paper-signal-art-director", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-art-director --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-art-director .opencode/skills/paper-signal-art-director && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "paper-signal-art-director" agent skill from https://github.com/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal/tree/main/skills/paper-signal-art-director into .opencode/skills/paper-signal-art-director/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paper-signal-art-director", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
paper-signal-art-director- GitHub stars
- 109
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 506 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 4
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Art-direct and generate one high-craft minimal-zine bitmap from a landscape, portrait, person, object, product, food, plant, building, interior, photograph, mood, sentence, or article concept.
- Works in 5 steps: ../paper-signal/references/subject-routin… → ../paper-signal/references/visual-languag… → ../paper-signal/references/presets.md → …
- The user wants a standalone poetic poster
- SKILL.md covers Load the shared kernel, Workflow, Existing-photo rule and Taste decisions, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Paper Signal Art Director is an agent skill from jiahuiqu17/paper-signal. Art-direct and generate one high-craft minimal-zine bitmap from a landscape, portrait, person, object, product, food, plant, building, interior, photograph, mood, sentence, or article concept. Use when the user wants a standalone poetic poster, editorial cover, visual concept, aesthetic photo upgrade, photo-to-zine restyle, or a subject-aware minimal-zine image without the overhead of a social carousel. Chooses adaptive composition and a physically coherent print process, preserves subject identity, saves the…
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).
It sits in Media & Creative, covering Image generation and Infographics. The repository describes itself as: Subject-aware minimal-zine image production for Agent Skills: art direction, generation, series, evidence, and real-bitmap QA. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user wants a standalone poetic poster
- Editorial cover
- Aesthetic photo upgrade
- Photo-to-zine restyle
Example prompts
- “/paper-signal-art-director”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- ../paper-signal/references/subject-routing.md
- ../paper-signal/references/visual-language.md
- ../paper-signal/references/presets.md
- ../paper-signal/references/prompt-compiler.md
- ../paper-signal/references/quality-contract.md
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7567ff0. 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
Paper Signal Art Director loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 157 tokens; SKILL.md has 506 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
The full file from jiahuiqu17/paper-signal at commit 7567ff0, republished under its MIT licence (© jiahuiqu17). 506 words, ~1,155 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/paper-signal-art-director/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- paper-signal-art-director
- description
- Art-direct and generate one high-craft minimal-zine bitmap from a landscape, portrait, person, object, product, food, plant, building, interior, photograph, mood, sentence, or article concept. Use when the user wants a standalone poetic poster, editorial cover, visual concept, aesthetic photo upgrade, photo-to-zine restyle, or a subject-aware minimal-zine image without the overhead of a social carousel. Chooses adaptive composition and a physically coherent print process, preserves subject identity, saves the final prompt, invokes the runtime-native image generator, and audits the raster result.
Paper Signal Art Director
Create one authored image. Make the subject, not the style label, drive the composition.
Load the shared kernel
This skill ships inside the Paper Signal plugin. Resolve shared files relative to this folder and read:
../paper-signal/references/subject-routing.md../paper-signal/references/visual-language.md../paper-signal/references/presets.md../paper-signal/references/prompt-compiler.md../paper-signal/references/quality-contract.md
For an existing-image edit, also read ../paper-signal/references/restyle-contract.md.
Workflow
- Resolve the asset. Identify intended use, subject, mood, aspect ratio, exact visible text, references, edit target, protected details, and destination.
- Inspect images. Label each input as
edit-target,style-reference,content-reference, orseries-anchor. Useview_imagefor every local edit target and for any style reference that needs visual interpretation. - Route the subject. Choose
landscape,portrait,object,architecture,concept, orevidence. - Choose composition. Select
airy-fragment,photo-window,panorama-strip,dual-frame,specimen-plate,portrait-archive, ortype-object. Prefer the mode that keeps the subject rewarding at phone size. - Choose material. Select one preset, one lead reproduction process, one type pairing, and one meaningful saturated hue. Do not automatically choose cobalt when the subject suggests another ink.
- Write the visual thesis. Reduce the brief to
subject / action or state / emotional tension. - Save the prompt. Write the exact four-paragraph raster prompt to
prompts/01-{role}-{slug}.mdbefore rendering. Use no visible text when words do not improve the image. - Confirm once. Show subject route, composition, preset, process, hue, text, protected details, and output path unless the user explicitly asked to generate directly.
- Render. Use the runtime-native bitmap generator. In Codex, use the built-in
imagegenskill/tool. Never substitute SVG, HTML, canvas, or programmatic poster rendering. - Inspect and correct. Judge subject integrity, material causality, authored composition, exact text, chromatic signal, and phone-size readability. Retry once with one targeted change.
- Deliver. Copy the selected image into the project or requested destination, show it inline, and return its absolute path and saved prompt.
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Existing-photo rule
Use the least invasive transformation that meets the brief:
- reframe
- print-transfer
- editorial-composite
- scene-transform only when explicitly requested
Preserve identity, crop logic, horizon or pose, scene geometry, object features, approved text, and aspect ratio. Do not beautify faces, redesign products, replace architecture, or invent atmosphere-specific metadata.
Taste decisions
- Let a landscape occupy a real panorama or photo window; do not reduce it to an atmospheric icon.
- Keep a portrait large enough for the expression to survive. Keep type away from the eyes and mouth.
- Show an object's material and silhouette. Avoid glossy product-ad staging.
- Preserve architectural proportions and light logic.
- Give a concept one metaphor and one tension, not a collage of every sentence.
- Prefer meaningful silence to pseudo-text, fake dates, faux Asian characters, decorative archive codes, or generic birds/moons/stairs.
Regeneration triggers
Regenerate when the result:
- loses identity, horizon, geometry, silhouette, or defining details
- looks like a clean beige template with grain
- uses arbitrary zine symbols unrelated to the brief
- contains meaningless or incorrect text
- combines several incompatible print defects
- makes the image too small to reward looking
- becomes glossy, cinematic, commercial, scrapbook-like, or UI-like
Never paint over generated text or alter the main composition with code.
© jiahuiqu17, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/paper-signal-art-director of jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.
- SKILL.md
- agents/openai.yaml
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7567ff0
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| Paper Signal Art Director this skilljiahuiqu17/paper-signal | 109 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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| SEO Image GeneratorAgriciDaniel/claude-seo | 19k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ecom Image2buluslan/gpt-image2-ecommerce | 410 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Design Image Studiokangarooking/design-image-studio | 102 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Gemini Carouselcharlie947/social-media-skills | 3.8k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Paper Signal Art Director
What does Paper Signal Art Director do?
Art-direct and generate one high-craft minimal-zine bitmap from a landscape, portrait, person, object, product, food, plant, building, interior, photograph, mood, sentence, or article concept. Paper Signal Art Director is an agent skill from jiahuiqu17/paper-signal. Art-direct and generate one high-craft minimal-zine bitmap from a landscape, portrait, person, object, product, food, plant, building, interior, photograph, mood, sentence, or article concept.
When should I use Paper Signal Art Director?
Paper Signal Art Director fits situations like: the user wants a standalone poetic poster; editorial cover; aesthetic photo upgrade; photo-to-zine restyle.
How do I install Paper Signal Art Director in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/paper-signal-art-director in jiahuiqu17/paper-signal) into .claude/skills/paper-signal-art-director in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Paper Signal Art Director in Codex?
Run `npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/paper-signal-art-director in jiahuiqu17/paper-signal) into .agents/skills/paper-signal-art-director in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Paper Signal Art Director 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 jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-art-director -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/paper-signal-art-director, .gemini/skills/paper-signal-art-director, .github/skills/paper-signal-art-director and .opencode/skills/paper-signal-art-director in your project.
What does Paper Signal Art Director need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Paper Signal Art Director is instructions for the agent only.
Does Paper Signal Art Director 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 Paper Signal Art Director 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 Paper Signal Art Director use?
Paper Signal Art Director is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Paper Signal Art Director use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Paper Signal Art Director?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Paper Signal Art Director: Image Generation (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars), SEO Image Generator (AgriciDaniel/claude-seo, 19k stars), Ecom Image2 (buluslan/gpt-image2-ecommerce, 410 stars) and Design Image Studio (kangarooking/design-image-studio, 102 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Paper Signal Art Director?
jiahuiqu17 (a GitHub user) maintains it in jiahuiqu17/paper-signal, which has 109 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 12, 2026.
Source: jiahuiqu17/paper-signal on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.