# Higgsfield YouTube Thumbnail — workflow skill for images & thumbnails

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Design truthful, high-CTR YouTube thumbnails and vertical covers with up to three consistent faces.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Images & thumbnails](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/image.md)
- **Slug:** `higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Higgsfield (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/higgsfield-ai/skills/tree/main/higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Higgsfield account, Higgsfield CLI (`higgsfield auth login`)
- **Cost:** Billed in Higgsfield credits
- **Adoption:** 102,900 installs, 1,682 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Plans a truthful information-gap concept, then renders YouTube thumbnails and Shorts or Instagram covers with Nano Banana Pro, keeping up to three referenced identities plus optional logos, and applies focused Seedream edits for tweaks. It includes thumbnail frameworks and a step for baking in text overlays.

## Use when

- A YouTube thumbnail for a video
- A Shorts or Instagram video cover
- Thumbnail variants after any video workflow

## Not for

- Producing the video itself (use Higgsfield Generate)
- Product catalog photos or marketplace cards

## Install

- Claude Code: `/plugin marketplace add higgsfield-ai/skills && /plugin install higgsfield@higgsfield`
- Codex: `npx skills add higgsfield-ai/skills --skill higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add higgsfield-ai/skills --skill higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add higgsfield-ai/skills --skill higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** nano_banana_pro, seedream_5_pro

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail.webp — YouTube Covers showcase on Higgsfield's skills page: thumbnail generated for 'trying an enormous iced coffee in Miami' (credit: Higgsfield, https://higgsfield.ai/skills)

## Used for

- [YouTube thumbnails and covers](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/thumbnail.md): High-CTR thumbnails and vertical covers, in a few options to choose from.

## More images & thumbnails skills

- [Slack GIF Creator](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/anthropic-slack-gif-creator.md): Make animated GIFs that pass Slack's limits: 128×128 emoji or 480×480 message GIFs, validated on export.
- [PixiJS GIFs](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/pixijs-gif.md): Load, play and control animated GIFs inside a PixiJS v8 scene.
- [AI Image Generation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-image-generation.md): Generate images with 50+ models from one CLI: GPT Image 2.5, FLUX, Gemini, Grok, Seedream, Reve and more.
- [Background Removal](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-background-removal.md): Cut subjects out of photos into clean transparent PNGs with BiRefNet.
- [FLUX Image](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-flux-image.md): Generate and restyle images with FLUX Dev LoRA and FLUX.2 Klein, including custom LoRA styles.
- [GPT Image](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-gpt-image.md): Generate and edit images with OpenAI GPT Image 2.5 and GPT Image 2 from the command line.

## Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt