Replicate Prompt Images — prompt skill for prompts by model

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Write better image prompts and edits: photographic language, lighting, text rendering, consistent characters.

• Type: Prompt · Prompts by model
• Slug: replicate-prompt-images
• Status: live
• Publisher: Replicate (vendor, verified)
• License: Apache-2.0
• Source: https://github.com/replicate/skills/tree/main/skills/prompt-images
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
• Requires: Replicate account and API token
• Cost: Billed by Replicate per prediction
• Adoption: 2,700 installs, 142 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

What it does

Prompting techniques for image generation and editing models on Replicate. It starts by choosing a model through the API rather than from memory, then covers natural-language prompts, camera and lens language, lighting setups, composition, text rendering, style transfer, character consistency and edits such as object removal, background changes, perspective shifts and inpainting.

Use when

• Writing prompts for an image model
• Editing an image with a model
• Building an image-generation feature

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a claude-code
• Codex: npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a codex
• Cursor: npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a cursor
• Gemini CLI: npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a gemini-cli

Models it drives: nano_banana_pro, flux-2, seedream-5, imagen-4, ideogram, recraft

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/replicate-prompt-images.webp — Nano Banana Pro output from Replicate's 'How to prompt Nano Banana Pro' guide: a comic-style New York weather report with legible lettering, from its world-knowledge prompting section (credit: Replicate, https://replicate.com/blog/how-to-prompt-nano-banana-pro)

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