Agent skill

Paper Signal Series

by jiahuiqu17 in jiahuiqu17/paper-signal

Plan, write, art-direct, generate, and package a coherent 2-10 image minimal-zine social series from notes, articles, photographs, travel stories, products, reviews, cultural topics, data, PDFs, or…

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Paper Signal Series

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-series -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jiahuiqu17/paper-signal paper-signal-series --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/jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/paper-signal-series .claude/skills/paper-signal-series && 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
paper-signal-series
GitHub stars
109
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
583 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Plan, write, art-direct, generate, and package a coherent 2-10 image minimal-zine social series from notes, articles, photographs, travel stories, products, reviews, cultural topics, data, PDFs, or…

  • Works in 8 steps: Resolve the post promise → Choose the sequence strategy → Build the content architecture → …
  • Xiaohongshu/小红书图片
  • SKILL.md covers Load the shared system, Workflow and Sequence anti-patterns
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Paper Signal Series is an agent skill from jiahuiqu17/paper-signal. Plan, write, art-direct, generate, and package a coherent 2-10 image minimal-zine social series from notes, articles, photographs, travel stories, products, reviews, cultural topics, data, PDFs, or mixed subjects. Use for Xiaohongshu/小红书图片, Instagram carousels, social visual essays, recommendation posts, photo diaries, evidence-backed explainers, or any multi-image editorial sequence. Produces analysis, card roles, subject-aware composition, saved prompts, real raster images, natural caption copy, evidence…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Documents & Office, covering Journaling and reflection. It works with Xiaohongshu and Instagram. 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

  • Xiaohongshu/小红书图片
  • Instagram carousels
  • Social visual essays
  • Recommendation posts

Example prompts

  • “/paper-signal-series”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Resolve the post promise
  2. Choose the sequence strategy
  3. Build the content architecture
  4. Route every image independently
  5. Save every prompt
  6. Confirm once
  7. Generate the series
  8. Audit and deliver

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 Series loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 144 tokens; SKILL.md has 583 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~144
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 583 words, ~1,277 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/paper-signal-series/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
paper-signal-series
description
Plan, write, art-direct, generate, and package a coherent 2-10 image minimal-zine social series from notes, articles, photographs, travel stories, products, reviews, cultural topics, data, PDFs, or mixed subjects. Use for Xiaohongshu/小红书图片, Instagram carousels, social visual essays, recommendation posts, photo diaries, evidence-backed explainers, or any multi-image editorial sequence. Produces analysis, card roles, subject-aware composition, saved prompts, real raster images, natural caption copy, evidence provenance when needed, and series-level QA.

Paper Signal Series

Turn content into a sequence with one editorial promise and several visually distinct images. Shared material creates continuity; each card's subject controls its composition.

Load the shared system

Read these companion files from ../paper-signal/:

  1. references/core-workflow.md
  2. references/subject-routing.md
  3. references/visual-language.md
  4. references/content-architecture.md
  5. references/presets.md
  6. references/prompt-compiler.md
  7. references/quality-contract.md

Read references/evidence-ledger.md for factual claims and references/human-voice.md for personal-sharing or recommendation copy.

Workflow

1. Resolve the post promise

Write one sentence describing what the viewer will feel, understand, or decide after the final swipe. Split unrelated outcomes into separate posts.

Extract platform, audience, source material, language, image count, visible text, supplied photos, exact facts, caption need, public-source-label policy, and output destination.

2. Choose the sequence strategy

Select one:

  • story-led — atmosphere or experience opens the sequence; reveal context gradually.
  • value-led — conclusion first; follow with useful evidence, tradeoffs, and fit.
  • visual-led — hero image first; alternate context, detail, object, person, and pause.

Recommend one strategy and count. Default to 4-6 images for ordinary social posts and three substantial items when each needs facts, tradeoffs, and fit.

3. Build the content architecture

Create:

  • analysis.md — promise, audience tension, source/evidence map, scope, and visual opportunities
  • outline.md — one job, takeaway, exact on-image text, subject route, composition mode, caption handoff, and swipe reason per image
  • caption.md — natural publishable copy when requested
  • evidence.json — only when facts, reviews, rankings, numbers, or source documents are involved

Keep one dominant idea per image. Move nuance to the caption.

4. Route every image independently

Assign each image a subject route and composition mode. A landscape card may use panorama-strip; a portrait may use portrait-archive; an object may use specimen-plate; evidence may use dual-frame or airy-fragment.

Lock across the series:

  • paper family and aging level
  • one lead reproduction process
  • type pairing
  • anchor hue or tightly controlled hue progression
  • texture intensity and safe-zone behaviour

Vary image scale, crop, composition, subject route, color form, and type behaviour. Do not clone the cover layout.

5. Save every prompt

Write every four-paragraph prompt to prompts/NN-{role}-{slug}.md before any generation call. Verify the complete prompt group exists.

Use exact strings only. Never invent quotes, reviews, dates, coordinates, archive codes, pseudo-language, or first-person experience.

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6. Confirm once

Show strategy, count, card roles, subject/composition sequence, preset, process, hue, caption voice, source-label policy, and output directory. Skip only when the user explicitly asks for direct/default generation.

7. Generate the series
  1. Render image 1 without a previous-card reference.
  2. Inspect and accept it as the material anchor.
  3. Render images 2+ as distinct calls, using image 1 as a style/series reference when supported.
  4. Keep direct batches to four or fewer calls.
  5. Retry only failed images, once each, with one targeted correction.
  6. Copy selected outputs into outputs/ with stable ordered filenames.

Use the runtime-native bitmap generator. In Codex, use built-in imagegen. Never substitute code-rendered posters or patch generated text with overlays.

8. Audit and deliver

Run the shared quality contract and project validator. Inspect every image at full size and thumbnail size, then inspect the whole sequence as a strip.

Deliver images inline, absolute paths, final caption, selected strategy, material system, validation result, and any honest evidence or rendering caveats.

Sequence anti-patterns

  • every card uses a tiny centered fragment regardless of subject
  • every card is a different visual style
  • cover reference forces identical layout later
  • atmosphere is manufactured with random pseudo-text
  • information cards become dashboard grids on vintage paper
  • landscapes are decorative thumbnails and portraits lose identity
  • caption repeats the bitmap instead of adding nuance
  • generic ending demands likes/follows without helping the reader

© 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-series of jiahuiqu17/paper-signal.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7567ff0

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Questions about Paper Signal Series

What does Paper Signal Series do?

Plan, write, art-direct, generate, and package a coherent 2-10 image minimal-zine social series from notes, articles, photographs, travel stories, products, reviews, cultural topics, data, PDFs, or…. Paper Signal Series is an agent skill from jiahuiqu17/paper-signal. Plan, write, art-direct, generate, and package a coherent 2-10 image minimal-zine social series from notes, articles, photographs, travel stories, products, reviews, cultural topics, data, PDFs, or mixed subjects.

When should I use Paper Signal Series?

Paper Signal Series fits situations like: xiaohongshu/小红书图片; instagram carousels; social visual essays; recommendation posts.

How do I install Paper Signal Series in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-series -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/paper-signal-series in jiahuiqu17/paper-signal) into .claude/skills/paper-signal-series in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Paper Signal Series in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jiahuiqu17/paper-signal --skill paper-signal-series -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/paper-signal-series in jiahuiqu17/paper-signal) into .agents/skills/paper-signal-series in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Paper Signal Series 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-series -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-series, .gemini/skills/paper-signal-series, .github/skills/paper-signal-series and .opencode/skills/paper-signal-series in your project.

What does Paper Signal Series need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Paper Signal Series is instructions for the agent only.

Does Paper Signal Series 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 Series 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 Series use?

Paper Signal Series 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 Series use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Series?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Paper Signal Series: Wb Xhs Schedule Review (wenziai/wenzi-xhs-agent-skills, 168 stars), Social Cover Director (Jamailar/Beav, 1.8k stars), Dev Diary Mdx (MillenniumDawn/Millennium-Dawn, 140 stars) and Xhs Longform Private Publisher (cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook, 454 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Paper Signal Series?

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.