# Illustrate Articles with Consistent Visuals

Article authors often know their message but lack a clear visual plan. This skill finds useful illustration points and prepares consistent raster image generation prompts.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add jimliu/baoyu-article-illustrator
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: jimliu-baoyu-article-illustrator
- Version: 1.117.4
- Author version: 1.117.4
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: valid
- Tree hash: 27944f165e14aa3eaa2b74540fd9c9427528115577dec73261c402c595d17da7
- Author: JimLiu
- GitHub username: JimLiu
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills/tree/main/skills/baoyu-article-illustrator
- Ref: 1c2ebded2116f8124f45dba86a2e567f56e64d8e
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: filesystem, env\_access, external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 80
- Quality tier: silver
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/jimliu-baoyu-article-illustrator
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/jimliu-baoyu-article-illustrator/manifest

## Capabilities

- Analyze article structure and identify sections where illustrations add value.
- Recommend illustration types such as infographics, scenes, flowcharts, comparisons, frameworks, and timelines.
- Apply style, palette, density, language, and output preferences from user choices or presets.
- Create an outline and save full image prompts as reproducible prompt files.
- Generate raster images through an available native tool or configured image backend.
- Insert relative image links and report the completed image set.

## Use Cases

- Plan a technical article: Turn a technical article into a visual outline with diagrams for systems, metrics, workflows, and key relationships.
- Create a visual tutorial: Add step-focused scenes or flowcharts to make a tutorial easier to scan and understand.
- Refresh editorial content: Generate a consistent set of article illustrations with a selected style, palette, density, and output location.

## Prompt Templates

### Simple article illustration

```
Read this article, identify the three strongest illustration opportunities, and propose one clear raster image concept for each.
```

### Choose a visual system

```
Analyze this article and recommend an illustration type, style, palette, density, and language. Explain each choice briefly.
```

### Build an illustration outline

```
Create an outline for this article with image positions, purposes, visual content, filenames, and a consistent type, style, and palette.
```

### Prepare a complete generation run

```
Analyze the article, ask for required settings, create structured prompt files for each illustration, generate the raster images in batches, and insert relative links.
```

## Limitations

- It requires an available raster image-generation backend.
- It does not guarantee accurate text rendering inside generated images.
- It does not rewrite article content or replace editorial review.
- Output quality depends on the selected backend, references, and source article.

## Best Practices

- Provide the complete article and state the intended audience.
- Confirm the visual type, density, style, palette, and language before generation.
- Review saved prompts, generated text, file paths, and Markdown links before publishing.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not request images without supplying the article or its key sections.
- Do not skip confirmation unless the current request explicitly authorizes direct generation.
- Do not patch unreadable image text programmatically; revise the prompt and regenerate.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-08-07T10:09:08.324\+00:00
- Summary: All 106 static matches are false positives after review. They point to Markdown links, code formatting, documentation examples, expected preference paths, metadata, or an explicit statement that the image wrapper does not read OPENAI\_API\_KEY. The skill still relies on the selected image backend and local output paths, so users should review those integrations before use.

## Stats

- Views: 334
- Downloads: 25
- Favorites: 2
- Popularity score: 0