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story-cover — Web Novel Cover Generator

Give it a book title and pen name, and it infers the genre and generates a professional web-novel cover with rendered title and author text.

Image & VideoIntermediate★ 6,025⑂ 894AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 24, 2026

What it does

  • Scans the title for keywords to auto-classify genre (xianxia, western fantasy, historical/modern romance, mystery, sci-fi, etc.), with a documented priority order and a default fallback.
  • Assembles an English prompt in three layers: text (title typeface + carefully styled author byline), platform style, and scene composition.
  • Prefers Codex CLI's built-in ImageGen; otherwise runs a hardened curl fallback against gpt-image-2 using GPT_IMAGE_API_KEY, including text-to-image and image-to-image (/images/edits) paths.
  • Produces 2–3 composition variants, auto-increments version filenames so nothing is overwritten, and saves the prompt alongside each image.
  • Exports a platform-exact upload copy (e.g. 600×800) via center-crop + resize with magick or macOS sips, so platforms don't clip the title.

Who it's for

  • Web-novel and genre-fiction authors who must produce their own covers.
  • Editors publishing to multiple platforms with fixed upload specs.
  • Creators who want repeatable, genre-tuned image prompts instead of ad-hoc ones.

Examples

  1. "Make a cover for 'Nine Heavens Sword Emperor' by Qingyun" → detected as xianxia; golden brush-calligraphy title plus cloud-scroll ornamented byline, 3 layout options.
  2. Targeting Fanqie Novel → generated at 3:4 and exported as an exact 600×800 upload file.
  3. Supply a reference image path or URL → switches to image-to-image editing to preserve the reference look.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode/HEAD/skills/story-cover/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/story-cover folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode into my ~/.claude/skills/zenstory-ai-story-cover/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r oh-story-claudecode/skills/story-cover ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode.git
  2. Copy the skill into your Claude Code skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r oh-story-claudecode/skills/story-cover ~/.claude/skills/
  3. Verify references/cover-styles.md came along — it holds the genre-to-visual and platform style tables the skill loads.
  4. Install prerequisites: curl, jq, base64 (usually preinstalled), plus magick (ImageMagick) or macOS sips for the upload-size crop step.
  5. If your session lacks Codex's built-in ImageGen, set the API key: export GPT_IMAGE_API_KEY=your_key (and GPT_IMAGE_BASE_URL if using a proxy).
  6. Restart Claude Code, then run /story-cover or say "make me a novel cover" and provide the title, pen name, target platform, and output directory.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT