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Create, edit, compare, and review Gemini images from Claude Code.

Banana Claude turns a plain-language creative request into a planned and reviewable Gemini image workflow. It shows the prompt, model, data settings, output destination, and nominal estimate before any paid request.

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Requirements: Claude Code 2.1.199 or newer, Python 3.11 or newer with python3 on PATH, and a Gemini API key for a billing-enabled Google AI project. Image generation and editing run on Linux and macOS. Native Windows is not yet supported because output publication needs an atomic no-replace rename that the client does not implement there; planning fails with output_exclusive_rename_unavailable before any provider call. Use WSL on Windows.

/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/banana-claude
/plugin install banana-claude@banana-claude-marketplace
/plugin enable banana-claude@banana-claude-marketplace
/reload-plugins

Then ask for the image you want:

/banana-claude:banana generate an urban 16:9 GitHub hero with clean left-side copy space

Banana Claude plans offline first. Review the exact plan, then approve the paid request when it matches your intent.

The workflow is simple

1. Ask: describe the outcome in normal language.
2. Plan: Banana Claude builds the visual brief and chooses a route.
3. Review: inspect the prompt, references, privacy settings, and estimate.
4. Approve: one short-lived approval authorizes one provider attempt.
5. Create: the image and a privacy-conscious metadata sidecar are saved.
6. Check: review the actual pixels, then fix, regenerate, or ship.

What you can make

• Generate: campaign visuals, covers, product scenes, diagrams, concepts, social assets, and more.
• Edit: make one clear change while protecting identity, geometry, and brand details.
• Continue: iterate with stored Nano Banana 2.1 or Pro sessions, or attach the last result as a fresh reference.
• Compare: test up to three prompts across three model routes in one bounded portfolio.
• Review: check copy, crop, composition, consistency, artifacts, rights, and provenance.
• Typeset: add approved copy, fonts, logos, and trusted raster art locally when exact text matters.

Banana Claude routes across Google's current Nano Banana 2.1 (the default), Nano Banana 2 Lite, and Nano Banana Pro models, and keeps the deprecated Nano Banana 2 route only for 512 drafts. See the dated Gemini model reference for current capabilities and pricing.

Built for control

• The plugin installs disabled because image generation is a paid service.
• API keys stay out of commands, request URLs, metadata, and public CI.
• Every paid tool shows its plan and requires a user decision before execution.
• One approval permits one provider attempt. A changed plan needs a new approval.
• Cost records stay private and omit raw prompts by default.
• Generated output is never treated as automatically correct or production ready.

Gemini output is probabilistic. Banana Claude cannot guarantee consistency, spelling, geometry, policy acceptance, rights clearance, or a final invoice. Those remain review conditions, not marketing claims.

Read Security and privacy before production use.

Documentation

• User guide: installation, upgrades, workflows, and direct scripts
• Prompt craft: visual briefs, consistency, composition, and recovery
• MCP tools: planning and execution contracts
• Security: credentials, approvals, outputs, state, and reporting
• Changelog, version 3.1 release notes, and version 3 release notes

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. For help or a reproducible bug, open an issue without keys, private media, or full environment dumps.

License

MIT License, see LICENSE.

Built by Agrici Daniel, AI Workflow Architect.

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