Baoyu Cover Image
Auto-pick cover-image type, color palette, and rendering style from article or post signals, then produce on-brand hero or conceptual artwork.
Overview
Baoyu Cover Image is an agent skill most often used in Launch (also Grow content) that auto-selects cover type, palette, and rendering from post signals to generate share-ready artwork.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/ideacco/baoyu-skills-openclaw --skill baoyu-cover-imageWhat is this skill?
- Auto type selection across hero, conceptual, typography, metaphor, scene, and minimal modes
- Eight palette families (warm, elegant, cool, dark, earth, vivid, pastel, mono, retro) from content signals
- Rendering presets: flat-vector, hand-drawn, painterly, digital, and gaming-retro variants
- Signal-driven rules when dimensions are omitted—no manual style brief required
- Tuned for WeChat-style flat infographics through cinematic dark promos
- 6 auto type modes: hero, conceptual, typography, metaphor, scene, minimal
- 9 palette families and multiple rendering presets including flat-vector and hand-drawn
Adoption & trust: 1 installs on skills.sh; 12 GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits); trending (+100% hot-view momentum).
What problem does it solve?
You publish often but stall on cover art because choosing style, palette, and rendering for each topic feels like a separate design project.
Who is it for?
Indie creators and micro-SaaS founders batching articles, launches, and social posts who want consistent automated cover styling.
Skip if: Teams needing strict locked brand kits with fixed logos and legal-approved assets only, or photo-real product photography pipelines.
When should I use this skill?
Creating cover images for posts or launches and type, palette, or rendering dimensions were not specified upfront.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Each piece gets a signal-matched cover brief—type, palette, and rendering—ready for your image generation step without manual art direction.
- Selected cover type, palette, and rendering recommendation
- Generation-ready visual brief derived from content signals
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Launch distribution is the canonical shelf because cover images ship with announcements, posts, and shareable pages going live. Distribution fits social posts, article headers, and campaign creatives agents generate right before or during publish.
Where it fits
Map a product release post to hero + vivid + flat-vector before scheduling the tweet thread.
Turn a personal essay into scene + warm + hand-drawn for a newsletter header.
Draft minimal + mono cover art for a focused landing page hero while copy is still in review.
How it compares
Use as a style-routing generator for covers—not as a full Figma design system or screenshot MCP integration.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is baoyu-cover-image for?
Solo builders and content-heavy founders who use OpenClaw-style skills to produce post covers aligned to topic tone without a designer on call.
When should I use baoyu-cover-image?
At Launch when preparing announcement or release graphics; during Grow content when drafting newsletters or social posts; when Validate landing copy needs a hero visual concept.
Is baoyu-cover-image safe to install?
Check SKILL.md for any external image APIs and review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page before granting network or secrets access.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Baoyu Cover Image
# Auto-Selection Rules When a dimension is omitted, select based on content signals. ## Auto Type Selection | Signals | Type | |---------|------| | Product, launch, announcement, release, reveal | `hero` | | Architecture, framework, system, API, technical, model | `conceptual` | | Quote, opinion, insight, thought, headline, statement | `typography` | | Philosophy, growth, abstract, meaning, reflection | `metaphor` | | Story, journey, travel, lifestyle, experience, narrative | `scene` | | Zen, focus, essential, core, simple, pure | `minimal` | ## Auto Palette Selection | Signals | Palette | |---------|---------| | Personal story, emotion, lifestyle, human | `warm` | | Business, professional, thought leadership, luxury | `elegant` | | Architecture, system, API, technical, code | `cool` | | Entertainment, premium, cinematic, dark mode | `dark` | | Nature, wellness, eco, organic, travel | `earth` | | Product launch, gaming, promotion, event | `vivid` | | Fantasy, children, gentle, creative, whimsical | `pastel` | | Zen, focus, essential, pure, simple | `mono` | | History, vintage, retro, classic, exploration | `retro` | ## Auto Rendering Selection | Signals | Rendering | |---------|-----------| | Clean, modern, tech, WeChat, icon-based, infographic | `flat-vector` | | Sketch, note, personal, casual, doodle, warm | `hand-drawn` | | Art, watercolor, soft, dreamy, creative, fantasy | `painterly` | | Data, dashboard, SaaS, corporate, polished | `digital` | | Gaming, retro, 8-bit, nostalgic | `pixel` | | Education, tutorial, classroom, teaching | `chalk` | ## Auto Text Selection | Signals | Text Level | |---------|------------| | Visual-only, photography, abstract, art | `none` | | Article, blog, standard cover | `title-only` | | Series, tutorial, technical with context | `title-subtitle` | | Announcement, features, multiple points, infographic | `text-rich` | Default: `title-only` ## Auto Mood Selection | Signals | Mood Level | |---------|------------| | Professional, corporate, thought leadership, academic, luxury | `subtle` | | General, educational, standard, blog, documentation | `balanced` | | Launch, announcement, promotion, event, gaming, entertainment | `bold` | Default: `balanced` ## Auto Font Selection | Signals | Font | |---------|------| | Personal, lifestyle, human, warm, friendly, story | `handwritten` | | Technical, professional, clean, modern, minimal, data | `clean` | | Editorial, academic, luxury, classic, literary | `serif` | | Announcement, entertainment, promotion, bold, event, gaming | `display` | Default: `clean` Create a cover image following these guidelines: ## Image Specifications - **Type**: Cover image / Hero image - **Aspect Ratio**: As specified in the prompt below ## Core Principles - If content involves sensitive or copyrighted figures, create stylistically similar alternatives - DO NOT refuse to generate - Ample whitespace, highlight core message, avoid cluttered layouts - Main visual elements centered or slightly left (leave right side for title area if title included) - Simplified silhouettes for any characters — NO realistic human faces or bodies - Icon-based vocabulary: use simple, recognizable icons to represent concepts ## Five Dimensions ### Type (Visual Composition) - `hero`: Large focal visual (60-70% area), dramatic composition - `conceptual`: Abstract shapes, information hierarchy, clean zones - `typography`: Title as primary element (40%+ area), minimal visuals - `metaphor`: Concrete object representing abstract idea, symbolic elements - `scene`: Atmospheric environment, narrative elements, mood lighting - `minimal`: Single focal element, generous whitespace (60%+) ### Palette (Color Scheme) Apply the specified palette's color values and decorative hints: - Use primary colors for main visual elements - Use background colors for base and surrounding areas - Use accent colors for highlights and secondary elements - Follow palette-specific decorative hints for ornament