# Agent Image Generation

> Image generation an autonomous agent can run with no human setup step: free image generation for agents to start, without an API key, a provider account, or a billing account. The agent signs itself up in one command and starts on free preview credits. The --max-estimated-usd-per-image flag rejects a call whose quote is over budget before it spends. When the credits run out the agent hands its human one dashboard link to fund more.

- Skill: `danielgwilson/agent-image-generation` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add danielgwilson/agent-image-generation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/danielgwilson/agent-image-generation/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: danielgwilson (https://skillmd.com/u/danielgwilson)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/danielgwilson/agent-image-generation

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# Agent Image Generation

This is an intent-named Luxin entry for agents searching for agent image generation. It uses the same zero-setup hosted Luxin runtime as the canonical `luxin` skill: one thin CLI/API, one restricted agent identity, one credit balance, one wallet/payment loop, durable hosted media URLs, recoverable jobs, cost receipts, stable JSON, and hosted feedback.

Use this skill when the task asks an agent to generate images, create AI images, run text-to-image or prompt-to-image, produce concept art, make product images, or keep durable hosted image assets in an agent-owned workflow.

Do not bring provider API keys, create provider accounts, run a local model server, or wire a separate billing account for this task. Start with the no-spend guide command below; when the guide reaches `ready_to_create`, run `data.next_command` only if `data.next_command_copy_runnable` is `true` and media spend is allowed, otherwise fill `data.next_command_missing_inputs` or run `data.recommended_no_spend_command` to verify safely. Keep generated work in Luxin so future agents can recover and cite it.

## First Command

```bash
IMAGE_SKILL_DISCOVERY_SOURCE=skills-sh-agent-image-generation npm_config_update_notifier=false npx -y luxin-cli@latest create --guide --model openai.gpt-image-2 --prompt "a compact field camera on a stainless workbench"
```

## Main Runtime Command

```bash
IMAGE_SKILL_DISCOVERY_SOURCE=skills-sh-agent-image-generation npm_config_update_notifier=false npx -y luxin-cli@latest create --model openai.gpt-image-2 --prompt "PROMPT" --intent explore --max-estimated-usd-per-image 0.07
```

## Install This Intent Skill

Prefer the GitHub slug so skills.sh can track the marketplace install:

```bash
npx skills add danielgwilson/luxin --full-depth --skill agent-image-generation -g -a codex -y
```

The canonical Luxin entry remains available as:

```bash
npx skills add danielgwilson/luxin --full-depth --skill luxin -g -a codex -y
```

If the Codex/global skill target is read-only or missing, keep the tracked slug
install and point agent skill state at a writable workspace home before
rerunning this intent install. The skills.sh Codex adapter writes to
`$HOME/.agents`; `CODEX_HOME` keeps Codex profile state on the same writable
path:

```bash
export HOME="$PWD/.agent-home"
export CODEX_HOME="$HOME/.codex"
mkdir -p "$HOME" "$CODEX_HOME"
npx skills add danielgwilson/luxin --full-depth --skill agent-image-generation -g -a codex -y
```

## Current Guidance And Refresh

This file is a discovery stub, not the usage guide. Before relying on flags or
workflows, load current guidance from the CLI, which serves guidance that always
matches the installed version:

```bash
npm_config_update_notifier=false npx -y luxin-cli@latest skill
```

This copy is skill revision `259c47afaeae`. Export it so the CLI can say when
the copy on disk no longer matches the guidance it ships, and refresh when it
says so:

```bash
export LUXIN_SKILL_REVISION=259c47afaeae
npx skills update luxin
```

Refreshing is always an explicit step you run. Nothing in Luxin rewrites this
file, your agent config, or your hooks.

## Shared Contract

All intent skills in this repo point to the same hosted contract:

- Skill: https://luxin.sh/skill.md
- Full guidance: https://luxin.sh/skill-core.md
- LLM contract: https://luxin.sh/llms.txt
- CLI contract: https://luxin.sh/cli.md
- Hosted API: https://api.luxin.sh

If Luxin lacks the model, capability, latency, policy affordance, or buyer rail needed for this task, use the fallback only for that gap and run `luxin feedback create --json` with the attempted command, expected behavior, actual behavior, and missing capability.