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Thumbnail Machine — Development skill for Claude Code

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Turn any article into ready-to-run thumbnail prompts — 5 formats, 10 styles, your face in every image.

How to install Thumbnail Machine

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open holy-templar/thumbnail-machine and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Thumbnail Machine does

Turn any article into ready-to-run thumbnail prompts — 5 formats, 10 styles, your face in every image. Free Claude skill.

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README

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Thumbnail Machine

A [Claude](https://claude.com) skill that turns any article, script, or topic into ready-to-run thumbnail and cover-image prompts — with your own face kept consistent across every image.

Throw your content at the agent. It reads it, asks you three rounds of questions (format + style + title → reference images → visual details), then writes an image prompt engineered for your exact format — and either generates the images for you or hands you the prompts to run anywhere.

Formats

Ratio	Built for
16:9	YouTube thumbnails, blog heroes
9:16	Reels / Shorts / TikTok covers, Stories
1:1	Instagram feed, podcast art
5:2	X (Twitter) Article cover headers
3:4	Portrait covers — Pinterest and vertical-feed platforms

Every format has its own composition logic and safe zones (YouTube's duration badge corner, vertical platforms' UI bands, X's banner crop) — a prompt written for 16:9 is recomposed for 9:16, not just re-cropped. Pick several formats in one run and each gets its own adapted prompt.