Baoyu Cover Image — workflow skill for images & thumbnails

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Article cover images built from five dimensions (type, palette, rendering, text, mood) in 2.35:1, 16:9 or 1:1.

What it does

The most-installed media skill from Jim Liu (宝玉), a well-known Chinese AI writer whose baoyu-skills repo has 27K stars. It analyses an article, then builds a cover from five dimensions (type, palette, rendering, text, mood) that combine 11 color palettes and 7 rendering styles, in cinematic 2.35:1, 16:9 or 1:1. It writes every final prompt to a file before generating, prefers the runtime's native image tool (Codex imagegen, Cursor GenerateImage) or the pack's baoyu-image-gen backend, and refuses to fake raster output with SVG or to patch rendered text with overlays.

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Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/baoyu-cover-image.webp — Sample from the repo's cover-image-styles set: a 2.35:1 article cover in the retro style ('Golden Age: A Retrospective Journey'). (credit: Jim Liu 宝玉 (baoyu-skills), https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills/tree/main/screenshots/cover-image-styles)

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