Required before calling image_generate. Create and edit images from a prompt — generate an image, make a picture / logo / illustration / icon / banner / poster / thumbnail / hero image / mockup / product shot / social graphic, or edit / restyle / combine existing images from reference images. Uses OpenAI gpt-image-2 through the Hive image service, billed to the user's Hive credits like an LLM call (no API key needed). Teaches the exact call shape, the quality/cost tradeoff (quality="low" is the default and cheapest), reference-image editing, how to show the result to the user with attach_file, and the failure modes (out of credits, model unavailable, moderation).
hive.chart-creation-foundations
hive.chart-creation-foundations is an open-source design skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by aden-hive. Its author describes it as: “Required reading whenever any chart_* tool is available. Teaches the one-tool embedding contract (call chart_render → live chart appears in chat AND a downloadable PNG lands in the queen session dir), the ECharts (dat…”. The project has 11k stars on GitHub and is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive ~/.claude/skills/chart-creation-foundations`.
What hive.chart-creation-foundations does
These tools render BI/financial-analyst-grade charts and diagrams that show up live in the chat AND save as high-DPI PNGs in the user's queen session dir.
Installation
Add hive.chart-creation-foundations to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive ~/.claude/skills/chart-creation-foundationsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for hive.chart-creation-foundations is organised into these sections:
- The embedding contract — one rule
- When to chart at all
- ECharts vs Mermaid — the picking rule
- The aesthetic baseline (non-negotiable)
- 1. Theme & background
- 2. Palette discipline — DO NOT set color on series
- 3. Typography
- 4. No chartjunk
- 5. Axis hygiene
- 6. One message per chart
- Calling chartrender — the canonical pattern
- The 12 chart types you'll use 95% of the time
When to use it
Reach for hive.chart-creation-foundations when you want design help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Clear Apache-2.0 license — safe to read and adapt
- Ships in aden-hive/hive, an established project with 10,923 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does hive.chart-creation-foundations do?
- Required reading whenever any chart_* tool is available. Teaches the one-tool embedding contract (call chart_render → live chart appears in chat AND a downloadable PNG lands in the queen session dir), the ECharts (data viz) vs Mermaid (structural diagrams) decision, the BI/financial-grade aesthetic baseline (no chartjunk, restrained palette, proper typography, single message per chart), and the canonical spec patterns for the 12 most-common chart types. Skipping this leads to 1990s-Excel charts, missing downloads, and the agent writing markdown image links by hand instead of letting chart_render drive the UI.
- How do I install hive.chart-creation-foundations?
- Run git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive ~/.claude/skills/chart-creation-foundations in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/aden-hive/hive before installing.
- Is hive.chart-creation-foundations free to use?
- Yes. hive.chart-creation-foundations is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does hive.chart-creation-foundations come from?
- hive.chart-creation-foundations ships inside aden-hive/hive, a repository that contains 25 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 10,923 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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