# Krea Generate — model skill for images & thumbnails

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Pick the right Krea model and prompt for any image, video, edit or upscale before you generate.

- **Type:** [Model](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [Images & thumbnails](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/image.md)
- **Slug:** `krea-generate`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Krea (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/krea-ai/skills/tree/main/krea-generate
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Krea account, Krea MCP server connected
- **Cost:** Billed in Krea compute units (CU)
- **Adoption:** 342 installs, 29 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Krea's generation skill, run through Krea's MCP tools, with tiered model recommendations across Krea 2, Nano Banana Pro and Lite, GPT Image 2, Seedream, Seedance, Hailuo and Veo. It adds per-model prompting guides, region-targeted edits, outpainting, upscaling and enhancers, vision QA of results and a cost preflight for expensive jobs.

## Use when

- Any image or video generation beyond a one-shot
- Editing, expanding or upscaling an image
- Choosing a model by quality, speed and cost

## Not for

- Marketing and ad creative (use Krea Marketing)
- Product and brand motion (use Krea Motion)

## Install

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

**Models it drives:** krea_2, nano_banana_pro, gpt_image_2, seedream_5_pro, seedance_2_5, veo_3_1_lite

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/krea-generate.webp — Krea 2 example from Krea's Krea 2 page: a stylized tiger leaping on a boar in a flower-filled jungle — output of Krea's own image model that krea-generate routes to (credit: Krea, https://www.krea.ai/krea-2)

## More images & thumbnails skills

- [Higgsfield YouTube Thumbnail](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-youtube-thumbnail.md): Design truthful, high-CTR YouTube thumbnails and vertical covers with up to three consistent faces.
- [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.

## 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