Is the Tech Article Illustration Master skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from ZD-AI-Lab/Tech-Article-Illustration-Master. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Tech Article Illustration Master SkillProof Score?

9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Tech Article Illustration Master?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Tech Article Illustration Master with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Tech Article Illustration Master

Matches a tech article's mood to one of 25 anti-AI-slop art styles and writes th

by ZD-AI-Lab · ZD-AI-Lab/Tech-Article-Illustration-Master

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.2/10
Tested: Jul 25, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Jul 30, 2026 · b3d1eb3

⚠ This skill is no longer available upstream. Our re-check on Aug 10, 2026 couldn't find it any more (repo unreachable/deleted). The test below is what we measured on Jul 25, 2026 and we're leaving it up as a record — but there is nothing left to install, so we've removed the command.

Ran it head-to-head on a 'WebAssembly at the edge' article: the no-skill baseline produced exactly the AI-slop the skill warns about ('glowing global network, neon blue, 4k'), while the skill selected isometric technical line-art, grounded it in cyan/charcoal drafting-paper texture, and appended the anti-slop negatives (no glowing brain, no neon, no plastic texture). All 25 documented styles are actually present in references/styles.md, so the mood-to-style matching has real substance behind it.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 8/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Tech Article Illustration Master does

Generates hero/cover-image prompts for technical articles by analyzing the piece's topic and mood, matching it to one of 25 real art-movement styles (Swiss design, patent illustration, WSJ stipple, cyanotype, plotter art, and more), and emitting a structured bilingual prompt with material, palette and built-in anti-AI negative constraints. Triggers when you ask for a cover image, hero image or illustration for an article, and calls an image MCP if one is available.

How to install Tech Article Illustration Master

Nothing to install: the source repository no longer has this skill. If the author brings it back, our daily re-check will pick it up and the command will reappear here.

Commands — how to trigger Tech Article Illustration Master

/tech-article-image Matches a tech article's mood to one of 25 anti-AI-slop art styles and writes th

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Generate a hero image prompt for my WebAssembly article
Make a cover illustration for this technical blog post
Write me an anti-AI-slop illustration prompt for this article

Frequently asked questions

Is the Tech Article Illustration Master skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from ZD-AI-Lab/Tech-Article-Illustration-Master. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Tech Article Illustration Master work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 25, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Ran it head-to-head on a 'WebAssembly at the edge' article: the no-skill baseline produced exactly the AI-slop the skill warns about ('glowing global network, neon blue, 4k'), while the skill selected isometric technical line-art, grounded it in cyan/charcoal drafting-paper texture, and appended the anti-slop negatives (no glowing brain, no neon, no plastic texture). All 25 documented styles are actually present in references/styles.md, so the mood-to-style matching has real substance behind it.
What is the Tech Article Illustration Master SkillProof Score?: 9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Tech Article Illustration Master?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Tech Article Illustration Master with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.