Image Pipeline Skill for Claude Code

A Claude Code skill that generates images from markdown prompts, uploads them to Cloudinary, and returns optimized CDN URLs. Composes the gemini-api-dev and cloudinary skills for an end-to-end pipeline.

Install

skillsmith install smith-horn/image-pipeline

Or manually copy SKILL.md to ~/.claude/skills/image-pipeline/SKILL.md.

Features

• Reads a markdown file containing image prompt descriptions
• Generates images via Google Gemini API
• Uploads generated images to Cloudinary with automatic optimization
• Returns f_auto,q_auto CDN URLs ready for use in blog posts or docs
• Composes gemini-api-dev and cloudinary skills automatically

Usage

Trigger the skill with /image-pipeline or describe what you need:

/image-pipeline Generate illustrations for my blog post at docs/blog/my-article.md

The skill will ask for:

1. Markdown file path containing image prompts
2. Article slug (used for Cloudinary folder naming)
3. Optional style or brand guide
4. Output directory for generated metadata

Then it runs the full pipeline autonomously and returns Cloudinary URLs.

Requirements

Variable	Description
GEMINI_API_KEY	Google Gemini API key for image generation
CLOUDINARY_URL	Cloudinary connection string (cloudinary://key:secret@cloud_name)

Secrets are injected via Varlock — never exposed in terminal output.

Triggers

Type	Values
Explicit	/image-pipeline, /gen-images
Keywords	generate blog images, image pipeline, create blog illustrations, generate images from markdown, image prompts to cloudinary

License

Elastic License 2.0