/baoyu-article-illustrator

name: baoyu-article-illustrator
description: Analyzes article structure, identifies positions requiring visual aids, generates illustrations with Type × Style × Palette three-dimension approach. Use when user asks to "illustrate article", "add images", "generate images for article", or "为文章配图".
version: 1.117.4
metadata:
  openclaw:
    homepage: https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills#baoyu-article-illustrator

Article Illustrator

User Input Tools

When this skill prompts the user, follow this tool-selection rule (priority order):

1. **Prefer built-in user-input tools** exposed by the current agent runtime — e.g., `AskUserQuestion`, `request_user_input`, `clarify`, `ask_user`, or any equivalent. 2. **Fallback**: if no such tool exists, emit a numbered plain-text message and ask the user to reply with the chosen number/answer for each question. 3. **Batching**: if the tool supports multiple questions per call, combine all applicable questions into a single call; if only single-question, ask them one at a time in priority order.

Concrete `AskUserQuestion` references below are examples — substitute the local equivalent in other runtimes.

Image Generation Tools

Resolve the image backend in this order:

1. **User names a backend** in the current message → use it. 2. **`preferred_image_backend`** in `EXTEND.md` names a backend available now → use it. `ask` means ask every run. 3. **Auto-select** (preference `auto`, unset, or the pinned backend is unavailable), first match wins:

• **Codex `imagegen`** skill is in your available skills → you are in Codex and MUST use it: `Skill` with `skill: "imagegen"`, passing the prompt file's content plus output path and aspect ratio. It outranks non-native skills such as `baoyu-image-gen`.
• **Codex via `codex exec` (`codex-imagegen`)**: no native `imagegen`, but the `codex` CLI is on `PATH` with an active `codex login` → `baoyu-image-gen --provider codex-cli` (preferred), or the bundled wrapper if baoyu-image-gen is unavailable. Load [references/codex-imagegen.md](references/codex-imagegen.md) only for this branch.
• **Cursor `GenerateImage`** → use it (outranks non-native skills). It has no aspect-ratio parameter, so state the aspect ratio / dimensions in the `description` prompt; it saves to a tool-managed location, so copy the file to the expected output path (e.g., `outputs/.../NN-xxx.png`). Reference images go in `reference_image_paths`.
• **Other runtime-native image tool** (e.g., Hermes `image_generate`) → use it the same way.
• Exactly one non-native backend installed (e.g., `baoyu-image-gen`) → use it.
• Several non-native backends → ask the user once, batched with other initial questions.

4. **None available** → tell the user and ask how to proceed.

**⛔ Raster only**: never substitute SVG, HTML/CSS, canvas, or other code-based rendering for a raster image, even for diagram-like content. If no raster backend resolves, go to step 4.

**⛔ No bitmap text patching**: never use ImageMagick, Pillow, Canvas, SVG, HTML/CSS, OCR scripts, or any other overlay to cover, rewrite, erase, stroke, or replace labels, captions, or any other text inside an already generated illustration. Regenerate from a corrected prompt, redraw with less or no on-image text, or ask the user which imperfect candidate to keep.

**Prompt file (hard)**: before invoking any backend, write each image's full, final prompt to its own file under `prompts/` (`NN-{type}-[slug].md`) and pass that file (or its content) to the backend. It is the reproducibility record and lets you switch backends without rewriting prompts.

Change the pinned backend via `## Changing Preferences` below. Tool names above are examples; use the local equivalent in other runtimes.

Batch Generation Policy

After every prompt file for the run has been saved and verified, generate images in batches by default:

1. Use the chosen backend's native batch / multi-task interface if it exists. Each task keeps its own prompt file, output path, aspect ratio, and direct reference images. 2. Otherwise, if the runtime can issue parallel tool calls, dispatch up to `generation_batch_size` images at a time (default `4`). An explicit request in the current message (`--batch-size 4`, "并行4张一起生成") overrides EXTEND.md. 3. Otherwise generate sequentially.

• Never start a batch until all its prompt files exist on disk.
• Retry failed items once without regenerating successful ones.
• Don't use subagents just to parallelize rendering; only for separate per-image prompt iteration or creative exploration.

Confirmation Policy

Default: **confirm before generation**.

• Explicit skill invocation, a file path, matched signals/presets, and `EXTEND.md` defaults are recommendation inputs only — none authorizes skipping confirmation.
• Do not start Step 4 or later until the user completes Step 3.
• Skip confirmation only when the current request explicitly says so ("直接生成", "不用确认", "跳过确认", "按默认出图", or equivalent). Then state the assumed type / density / style / palette / language / backend in the next user-facing update before generating.

Reference Images

Users may supply refs via `--ref <files...>`, file paths, or pasted images; they guide style, palette, composition, or subject. Step 1.0 in [references/workflow.md](references/workflow.md) saves them to `references/NN-ref-{slug}.{ext}`; Step 5.3 processes per-illustration usage `direct | style | palette`. When the backend supports batch input, propagate `direct` entries from each prompt file's `references:` frontmatter into its batch task (e.g. `baoyu-image-gen` accepts `ref` per task).

Three Dimensions

| Dimension | Controls | Values | |-----------|----------|--------| | **Type** | Information structure | `infographic` (data, metrics, technical), `scene` (narrative, emotional), `flowchart` (processes), `comparison` (side-by-side), `framework` (models, architecture), `timeline` (history, evolution) | | **Style** | Rendering approach | See [