inkos-story-cover

Generates story cover briefs and cover images from work metadata and user visual requirements.

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One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/Narcooo/inkos --skill inkos-story-cover
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Skill: inkos-story-cover
Source: https://github.com/Narcooo/inkos/tree/main/packages/core/skills/inkos-story-cover
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Narcooo/inkos --skill inkos-story-cover

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve?

Authors and publishers need covers that match their story's genre, conflict, and platform requirements, but translating a manuscript into an effective visual brief and generated image is difficult without design expertise.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Cover Strategy & Briefing: Derives cover direction from the actual work—title, genre, protagonist, central conflict, emotional promise, platform, and display size—using the cover-brief reference to produce a production-ready visual brief.
  • Confirmed Cover Generation: Generates or regenerates covers only through the generate_cover confirmation path, keeping the user in control of the final action.
  • Artifact Distinction: Differentiates mobile book covers, cinematic key art, interactive-world scene images, character images, and item images so each serves its intended purpose.
  • Use Case: A novelist finishing a fantasy serial asks for a mobile book cover; the skill builds a brief capturing the protagonist, one central conflict signal, and legible genre objects, then generates the cover after user confirmation.

Quick Start

Ask the agent to design a cover for your story, describing the title, genre, platform, and any visual requirements, then confirm the generation when prompted.

Frequently Asked Questions about inkos-story-cover

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I generate a book cover from my story?

Provide the work's title, genre, protagonist, central conflict, platform, and display size, plus any visual requirements. The skill builds a cover brief and generates the image only after you confirm through the generate_cover path.

What information is needed for a good cover brief?

A cover brief needs the artifact type, target platform, aspect ratio, focal subject, one central conflict signal, one or two legible genre objects, palette and lighting, prohibited elements, and whether typography is image-generated or applied later.

Can the cover include the book title as text?

Image models cannot guarantee textual accuracy, so the skill separates background generation from typography. If deterministic title layout is available, the title is applied after the background image is generated.

Does the skill impose a fixed visual style on covers?

No. The user's visual instructions are treated as authoritative. The skill does not impose a house style, watermark, frame, collage, typography, or text prohibition on generated covers.

What is the difference between a book cover and key art?

A mobile book cover must stay legible at thumbnail size with clear genre and title hierarchy, while cinematic key art, scene images, character images, and item images serve different display purposes and are evaluated differently.