illo

Name: illo
Author: tmchow

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How to install illo?

tmchow/illo-skill/illo

$npx -y skills add tmchow/illo-skill --skill illo

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Creates original editorial illustrations where a recurring mascot character performs the idea — one caught scene by default, a hand-built explainer diagram (a flow, fan-out, timeline, loop, or stack) when the structure itself is the point, or a transparent character cutout (pose-

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SKILL.md

1	# Illo
2
3	Make original, distinctive editorial illustrations for written content. One
4	image explains one idea: a key judgment, a flow, a before/after, a trap, a
5	loop. A recurring mascot is the one performing the idea in every scene —
6	the subject, never decoration. When one idea advances through stages, it can
7	be a mini-comic: 2–4 panels inside a single image. And when the idea is
8	itself a traceable structure — a pipeline, a fan-out, a timeline, a loop —
9	it can be an explainer: the same mascot and look drawing the structure
10	as a hand-built sketch-diagram with arrows and callouts
11	(`references/composition.md`, "Two registers"; editorial scene is always
12	the default). Or a character cutout: the mascot alone on a transparent
13	PNG for downstream overlay — pose and contact continuity only, no idea, no
14	text, no environment (`references/cutout.md`).
15
16	This is a configurable house style, not a generic image generator. The
17	methodology is the constant; the **character pack and palette are the
18	parameters — and a character pack carries its style** with it: one look
19	per pack, chosen from the bundled look library (riso — grainy halftone,
20	ink-layer offset, paper grain, one bold softly-rounded outline — plus
21	blueprint, woodcut, pixel, clay, manila, chalk, phosphor, enamel,
22	gouache, felt, diorama, sketchbook, bricks, fizz, and bloom) or a custom style file. The default mascot is
23	Blot, a deadpan ink-drop in riso. Palettes come
24	from presets, the user's own palette file, or one derived color. Whatever the
25	parameters, it is intentionally not a photo — with one deliberate exception, the
26	`bricks` look, a toy-brick photography style — not a logo, not a corporate
27	infographic, not a formal flowchart, not a UI mockup.
28
29	## Use cases — route the request
30
31	\| The user wants \| The path \|
32	\|---\|---\|
33	\| Illustrate an article / post / newsletter / URL \| Steps 0–7: route the source first (thesis → coverage: hero / hero+set / set / mini-comic — `references/composition.md`, "Source routing"), then shot list (hero row + anchors), one image per anchor, interleave by placement. \|
34	\| One image for a single concept \| Step 1 concept branch (up to ~3 quick questions if the idea is thin), then a single image. \|
35	\| Surprise / random — "surprise me", "random", "surprise me with art quote using bray" \| Read `references/surprise.md` in full (character + register resolved there — ignore `defaultCharacter`), then Steps 0 + 3–7 as one headless image: invent or fetch a safe saying (sense-bar originals; multi-source verified citations only), deliver saying + image. Poster titles default off; mini-comics still get per-panel labels. \|
36	\| A sequence — process, before→after, fail→fix \| One mini-comic when the progression sits in one place (shape routing in `references/composition.md` — the idea picks the shape, the destination never does). \|
37	\| A traceable structure — "show the flow", "diagram the pipeline", "map the steps", "as an explainer" \| The explainer register (`references/composition.md`, "The explainer register"): a hand-built flow / fan-out / timeline / loop / stack / system slice in the active look, the mascot a working part of it. Also reachable without the phrases when a unit's thesis IS the structure (the register gate). \|
38	\| Social-ready art for X posts / article body images \| 16:9 (or 1:1 when square is explicitly useful), bold `ink-punch`, watermark with the `x` handle if configured or asked. \|
39	\| X Article banner / hero image \| Use the unique banner format: 1536 × 640 px when the user asks for an X Article hero/banner. Prompt and render through the normal `illo.py generate` image pipeline, with normal, undistorted character/object proportions and crop

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How to install illo?

tmchow/illo-skill/illo

$npx -y skills add tmchow/illo-skill --skill illo

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Illo
2
3	Make original, distinctive editorial illustrations for written content. One
4	image explains one idea: a key judgment, a flow, a before/after, a trap, a
5	loop. A recurring mascot is the one performing the idea in every scene —
6	the subject, never decoration. When one idea advances through stages, it can
7	be a mini-comic: 2–4 panels inside a single image. And when the idea is
8	itself a traceable structure — a pipeline, a fan-out, a timeline, a loop —
9	it can be an explainer: the same mascot and look drawing the structure
10	as a hand-built sketch-diagram with arrows and callouts
11	(`references/composition.md`, "Two registers"; editorial scene is always
12	the default). Or a character cutout: the mascot alone on a transparent
13	PNG for downstream overlay — pose and contact continuity only, no idea, no
14	text, no environment (`references/cutout.md`).
15
16	This is a configurable house style, not a generic image generator. The
17	methodology is the constant; the **character pack and palette are the
18	parameters — and a character pack carries its style** with it: one look
19	per pack, chosen from the bundled look library (riso — grainy halftone,
20	ink-layer offset, paper grain, one bold softly-rounded outline — plus
21	blueprint, woodcut, pixel, clay, manila, chalk, phosphor, enamel,
22	gouache, felt, diorama, sketchbook, bricks, fizz, and bloom) or a custom style file. The default mascot is
23	Blot, a deadpan ink-drop in riso. Palettes come
24	from presets, the user's own palette file, or one derived color. Whatever the
25	parameters, it is intentionally not a photo — with one deliberate exception, the
26	`bricks` look, a toy-brick photography style — not a logo, not a corporate
27	infographic, not a formal flowchart, not a UI mockup.
28
29	## Use cases — route the request
30
31	\| The user wants \| The path \|
32	\|---\|---\|
33	\| Illustrate an article / post / newsletter / URL \| Steps 0–7: route the source first (thesis → coverage: hero / hero+set / set / mini-comic — `references/composition.md`, "Source routing"), then shot list (hero row + anchors), one image per anchor, interleave by placement. \|
34	\| One image for a single concept \| Step 1 concept branch (up to ~3 quick questions if the idea is thin), then a single image. \|
35	\| Surprise / random — "surprise me", "random", "surprise me with art quote using bray" \| Read `references/surprise.md` in full (character + register resolved there — ignore `defaultCharacter`), then Steps 0 + 3–7 as one headless image: invent or fetch a safe saying (sense-bar originals; multi-source verified citations only), deliver saying + image. Poster titles default off; mini-comics still get per-panel labels. \|
36	\| A sequence — process, before→after, fail→fix \| One mini-comic when the progression sits in one place (shape routing in `references/composition.md` — the idea picks the shape, the destination never does). \|
37	\| A traceable structure — "show the flow", "diagram the pipeline", "map the steps", "as an explainer" \| The explainer register (`references/composition.md`, "The explainer register"): a hand-built flow / fan-out / timeline / loop / stack / system slice in the active look, the mascot a working part of it. Also reachable without the phrases when a unit's thesis IS the structure (the register gate). \|
38	\| Social-ready art for X posts / article body images \| 16:9 (or 1:1 when square is explicitly useful), bold `ink-punch`, watermark with the `x` handle if configured or asked. \|
39	\| X Article banner / hero image \| Use the unique banner format: 1536 × 640 px when the user asks for an X Article hero/banner. Prompt and render through the normal `illo.py generate` image pipeline, with normal, undistorted character/object proportions and crop

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