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Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial.
ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii.
Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化).
Generate images, video, and audio with ComfyUI — install, launch, manage nodes/models, run workflows with parameter injection. Uses the official comfy-cli for lifecycle and direct REST/WebSocket API for execution.
Pixel art w/ era palettes (NES, Game Boy, PICO-8).
Run multi-hour autonomous coding tasks using a 5-agent harness: Researcher, Planner, Executor (with Opus advisor), Evaluator, and Orchestrator. Combines Anthropic's advisor strategy, GAN-inspired generator/evaluator design, and Boris Tane's annotation-cycle workflow.
Hermes deploy pipeline — sync, test, and prevent drift between staging and prod
| name | baoyu-comic |
| description | Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial. |
| version | 1.56.1 |
| author | 宝玉 (JimLiu) |
| license | MIT |
| platforms | ["linux","macos"] |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["comic","knowledge-comic","creative","image-generation"],"homepage":"https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills#baoyu-comic"}} |
Adapted from baoyu-comic for Hermes Agent's tool ecosystem.
Create original knowledge comics with flexible art style × tone combinations.
Trigger this skill when the user asks to create a knowledge/educational comic, biography comic, tutorial comic, or uses terms like "知识漫画", "教育漫画", or "Logicomix-style". The user provides content (text, file path, URL, or topic) and optionally specifies art style, tone, layout, aspect ratio, or language.
Hermes' image_generate tool is prompt-only — it accepts a text prompt and an aspect ratio, and returns an image URL. It does NOT accept reference images. When the user supplies a reference image, use it to extract traits in text that get embedded in every page prompt:
Intake: Accept file paths when the user provides them (or pastes images in conversation).
refs/NN-ref-{slug}.{ext} alongside the comic output for provenanceclarify, or extract style traits verbally as a text fallbackUsage modes (per reference):
| Usage | Effect |
|---|---|
style | Extract style traits (line treatment, texture, mood) and append to every page's prompt body |
palette | Extract hex colors and append to every page's prompt body |
scene | Extract scene composition or subject notes and append to the relevant page(s) |
Record in each page's prompt frontmatter when refs exist:
references:
- ref_id: 01
filename: 01-ref-scene.png
usage: style
traits: "muted earth tones, soft-edged ink wash, low-contrast backgrounds"
Character consistency is driven by text descriptions in characters/characters.md (written in Step 3) that get embedded inline in every page prompt (Step 5). The optional PNG character sheet generated in Step 7.1 is a human-facing review artifact, not an input to image_generate.
| Option | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Art | ligne-claire (default), manga, realistic, ink-brush, chalk, minimalist | Art style / rendering technique |
| Tone | neutral (default), warm, dramatic, romantic, energetic, vintage, action | Mood / atmosphere |
| Layout | standard (default), cinematic, dense, splash, mixed, webtoon, four-panel | Panel arrangement |
| Aspect | 3:4 (default, portrait), 4:3 (landscape), 16:9 (widescreen) | Page aspect ratio |
| Language | auto (default), zh, en, ja, etc. | Output language |
| Refs | File paths | Reference images used for style / palette trait extraction (not passed to the image model). See Reference Images above. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Storyboard only | Generate storyboard only, skip prompts and images |
| Prompts only | Generate storyboard + prompts, skip images |
| Images only | Generate images from existing prompts directory |
| Regenerate N | Regenerate specific page(s) only (e.g., 3 or 2,5,8) |
Details: references/partial-workflows.md
Art styles (6): ligne-claire, manga, realistic, ink-brush, chalk, minimalist. Full definitions at references/art-styles/<style>.md.
Tones (7): neutral, warm, dramatic, romantic, energetic, vintage, action. Full definitions at references/tones/<tone>.md.
Presets (5) with special rules beyond plain art+tone:
| Preset | Equivalent | Hook |
|---|---|---|
ohmsha | manga + neutral | Visual metaphors, no talking heads, gadget reveals |
wuxia | ink-brush + action | Qi effects, combat visuals, atmospheric |
shoujo | manga + romantic | Decorative elements, eye details, romantic beats |
concept-story | manga + warm | Visual symbol system, growth arc, dialogue+action balance |
four-panel | minimalist + neutral + four-panel layout | 起承转合 structure, B&W + spot color, stick-figure characters |
Full rules at references/presets/<preset>.md — load the file when a preset is picked.
Compatibility matrix and content-signal → preset table live in references/auto-selection.md. Read it before recommending combinations in Step 2.
Output directory: comic/{topic-slug}/
alan-turing-bio)turing-story-20260118-143052)Contents:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
source-{slug}.md | Saved source content (kebab-case slug matches the output directory) |
analysis.md | Content analysis |
storyboard.md | Storyboard with panel breakdown |
characters/characters.md | Character definitions |
characters/characters.png | Character reference sheet (downloaded from image_generate) |
prompts/NN-{cover|page}-[slug].md | Generation prompts |
NN-{cover|page}-[slug].png | Generated images (downloaded from image_generate) |
refs/NN-ref-{slug}.{ext} | User-supplied reference images (optional, for provenance) |
Detection Priority:
Rule: Use user's input language for ALL interactions:
Technical terms remain in English.
Comic Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Setup & Analyze
- [ ] 1.1 Analyze content
- [ ] 1.2 Check existing directory
- [ ] Step 2: Confirmation - Style & options ⚠️ REQUIRED
- [ ] Step 3: Generate storyboard + characters
- [ ] Step 4: Review outline (conditional)
- [ ] Step 5: Generate prompts
- [ ] Step 6: Review prompts (conditional)
- [ ] Step 7: Generate images
- [ ] 7.1 Generate character sheet (if needed) → characters/characters.png
- [ ] 7.2 Generate pages (with character descriptions embedded in prompt)
- [ ] Step 8: Completion report
Input → Analyze → [Check Existing?] → [Confirm: Style + Reviews] → Storyboard → [Review?] → Prompts → [Review?] → Images → Complete
| Step | Action | Key Output |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Analyze content | analysis.md, source-{slug}.md |
| 1.2 | Check existing directory | Handle conflicts |
| 2 | Confirm style, focus, audience, reviews | User preferences |
| 3 | Generate storyboard + characters | storyboard.md, characters/ |
| 4 | Review outline (if requested) | User approval |
| 5 | Generate prompts | prompts/*.md |
| 6 | Review prompts (if requested) | User approval |
| 7.1 | Generate character sheet (if needed) | characters/characters.png |
| 7.2 | Generate pages | *.png files |
| 8 | Completion report | Summary |
Use the clarify tool to confirm options. Since clarify handles one question at a time, ask the most important question first and proceed sequentially. See references/workflow.md for the full Step 2 question set.
Timeout handling (CRITICAL): clarify can return "The user did not provide a response within the time limit. Use your best judgement to make the choice and proceed." — this is NOT user consent to default everything.
"Style: defaulted to ohmsha preset (clarify timed out). Say the word to switch." — an unreported default is indistinguishable from never having asked.Use Hermes' built-in image_generate tool for all image rendering. Its schema accepts only prompt and aspect_ratio (landscape | portrait | square); it returns a URL, not a local file. Every generated page or character sheet must therefore be downloaded to the output directory.
Prompt file requirement (hard): write each image's full, final prompt to a standalone file under prompts/ (naming: NN-{type}-[slug].md) BEFORE calling image_generate. The prompt file is the reproducibility record.
Aspect ratio mapping — the storyboard's aspect_ratio field maps to image_generate's format as follows:
| Storyboard ratio | image_generate format |
|---|---|
3:4, 9:16, 2:3 | portrait |
4:3, 16:9, 3:2 | landscape |
1:1 | square |
Download step — after every image_generate call:
curl -fsSL "<url>" -o /abs/path/to/comic/<slug>/NN-page-<slug>.pngNever rely on shell CWD persistence for -o paths. The terminal tool's persistent-shell CWD can change between batches (session expiry, TERMINAL_LIFETIME_SECONDS, a failed cd that leaves you in the wrong directory). curl -o relative/path.png is a silent footgun: if CWD has drifted, the file lands somewhere else with no error. Always pass a fully-qualified absolute path to -o, or pass workdir=<abs path> to the terminal tool. Incident Apr 2026: pages 06-09 of a 10-page comic landed at the repo root instead of comic/<slug>/ because batch 3 inherited a stale CWD from batch 2 and curl -o 06-page-skills.png wrote to the wrong directory. The agent then spent several turns claiming the files existed where they didn't.
7.1 Character sheet — generate it (to characters/characters.png, aspect landscape) when the comic is multi-page with recurring characters. Skip for simple presets (e.g., four-panel minimalist) or single-page comics. The prompt file at characters/characters.md must exist before invoking image_generate. The rendered PNG is a human-facing review artifact (so the user can visually verify character design) and a reference for later regenerations or manual prompt edits — it does not drive Step 7.2. Page prompts are already written in Step 5 from the text descriptions in characters/characters.md; image_generate cannot accept images as visual input.
7.2 Pages — each page's prompt MUST already be at prompts/NN-{cover|page}-[slug].md before invoking image_generate. Because image_generate is prompt-only, character consistency is enforced by embedding character descriptions (sourced from characters/characters.md) inline in every page prompt during Step 5. The embedding is done uniformly whether or not a PNG sheet is produced in 7.1; the PNG is only a review/regeneration aid.
Backup rule: existing prompts/…md and …png files → rename with -backup-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS suffix before regenerating.
Full step-by-step workflow (analysis, storyboard, review gates, regeneration variants): references/workflow.md.
Core Templates:
Style Definitions:
references/art-styles/ - Art styles (ligne-claire, manga, realistic, ink-brush, chalk, minimalist)references/tones/ - Tones (neutral, warm, dramatic, romantic, energetic, vintage, action)references/presets/ - Presets with special rules (ohmsha, wuxia, shoujo, concept-story, four-panel)references/layouts/ - Layouts (standard, cinematic, dense, splash, mixed, webtoon, four-panel)Workflow:
| Action | Steps |
|---|---|
| Edit | Update prompt file FIRST → regenerate image → download new PNG |
| Add | Create prompt at position → generate with character descriptions embedded → renumber subsequent → update storyboard |
| Delete | Remove files → renumber subsequent → update storyboard |
IMPORTANT: When updating pages, ALWAYS update the prompt file (prompts/NN-{cover|page}-[slug].md) FIRST before regenerating. This ensures changes are documented and reproducible.
image_generate to a local PNG — downstream tooling (and the user's review) expects files in the output directory, not ephemeral URLscurl -o — never rely on persistent-shell CWD across batches. Silent footgun: files land in the wrong directory and subsequent ls on the intended path shows nothing. See Step 7 "Download step".characters/characters.md, not the PNG. image_generate does not accept images as visual input