ArtCraft Agent Skills

Thirteen evidence-verified agent skills — plain SKILL.md files following the agentskills.io standard — that teach AI coding agents to drive the ArtCraft creative suite. Built for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex & ChatGPT desktop, OpenCode, Devin, CommandCode and ZCode.

ArtCraft is the open-source, pure-Rust, clean-room creative suite from the storytold organization (Photoshop-, Illustrator-, Premiere-, Lightroom-, Acrobat-, After Effects-, InDesign-, Figma-, Word-, Pro Tools-, PowerPoint-, AutoCAD- and Excel-style apps, all installable via the ArtCraft Launcher).

Each skill teaches an AI coding agent what one app can really do, what it cannot do yet, and how to drive it correctly — through the app's first-class automation surface (headless CLI, MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, localhost JSON control channel) rather than blind GUI automation. Mention an app or one of its file formats — .psd, .pptx, .xlsx, .docx, .dxf — and the matching skill triggers.

Works with: any agent that implements the agentskills.io SKILL.md standard — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex & ChatGPT desktop, OpenCode, Devin, CommandCode, ZCode and more. One command per agent:

The SKILL.md files are plain Markdown + shell, so any agent that can read files can use them. Full per-agent options are under Install below.

Install

Clone once, then pick the target that matches your agent:

git clone https://github.com/midasmatterhorn/artcraft-skills.git
cd artcraft-skills

One paste: let your coding agent do it

Copy this into your agent (Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, OpenCode, Devin, CommandCode, ZCode, or any coding agent):

Clone https://github.com/midasmatterhorn/artcraft-skills.git into a temporary directory, then install the skills for the agent I'm using now:
- Windows: run `.\install.ps1`; if you are Claude Code use `.\install.ps1 -Claude`, if you are OpenCode use `.\install.ps1 -OpenCode`, and add `-Force` to overwrite existing installs.
- OpenCode (macOS/Linux): run `bash install.sh --opencode`, which installs into ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
- Claude Code (macOS/Linux): run `bash install.sh --claude`, which installs into ~/.claude/skills/.
- Everyone else (OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT desktop, ZCode, Devin, CommandCode, or any other SKILL.md-standard agent): run `bash install.sh`; the default target is ~/.agents/skills/, which those agents scan natively.
Verify the install: all 13 skill directories must be present under the target directory, each containing SKILL.md and agents/openai.yaml. Print the target directory you used.
Then tell me to restart my agent session so the new skills are discovered.

Works as-is in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Devin, CommandCode and ZCode; any SKILL.md-standard agent can follow it too.

Standard agents (Codex, ChatGPT, ZCode, Devin, CommandCode)

bash install.sh            # default target: ~/.agents/skills/

~/.agents/skills/ is the shared directory that OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT desktop, ZCode, Devin and CommandCode all scan natively (ZCode also reads ~/.zcode/skills/; CommandCode also reads ~/.commandcode/skills/). Every skill ships an agents/openai.yaml sidecar so the Codex/ChatGPT UI shows the proper display name and description. CommandCode users can alternatively install natively with cmd skills add midasmatterhorn/artcraft-skills --global.

Invoke a skill explicitly with $photocraft (or $wordcraft, …), or let implicit triggering fire when you mention an app or an extension like .psd, .pptx, .xlsx, .docx or .dxf. If a freshly installed skill doesn't show up, restart your agent.

Claude Code

bash install.sh --claude   # copies all 13 skills into ~/.claude/skills/

--claude targets Claude Code's user-scoped ~/.claude/skills/ directory (a project-scoped .claude/skills/ works the same way). Prefer symlinks when you want git pull to keep skills current:

ln -s "$PWD/photocraft" ~/.claude/skills/photocraft   # repeat for each skill

OpenCode

bash install.sh --opencode   # copies all 13 skills into ~/.config/opencode/skills/

--opencode targets OpenCode's global skills directory ~/.config/opencode/skills/, where they are discovered for every project. To scope skills to a single project instead, symlink them into that project's .opencode/skills/ directory:

ln -s "$PWD/photocraft" .opencode/skills/photocraft   # repeat for each skill

As with Claude Code, symlinks mean git pull keeps the installed skills current.

claude.ai / Claude Desktop

Zip a skill folder and upload it via Settings → Capabilities → Skills:

cd artcraft-skills && zip -r photocraft.skill.zip photocraft

Windows (PowerShell / WSL)

Native Windows: after cloning, run the PowerShell installer (install.ps1):

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1   # or .\install.ps1 in an existing PowerShell session

-Claude targets Claude Code's %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills and -OpenCode targets OpenCode's %USERPROFILE%\.config\opencode\skills; the default is %USERPROFILE%\.agents\skills (scanned natively by Codex, ChatGPT desktop, ZCode, Devin and CommandCode on Windows), and -Force overwrites existing installs.

On WSL or Git Bash the bash installer works unchanged (bash install.sh, --claude, --opencode) — no need for install.ps1 there. The skill folders are plain Markdown; only the paths inside the docs are written macOS-first (see the Platforms note below).

Manual / other agents

Copy or symlink any skill folder into the directory your agent reads — the format is the portable SKILL.md standard, so nothing here is Claude-, Codex- or OpenCode-specific. install.sh also accepts --force to overwrite existing installs (e.g. bash install.sh --force).

Skills trigger automatically when you mention an app or its file formats (.psd, .pptx, .xlsx, .docx, .dxf, .deckcraft, .scraft, …), or force one in-session with /photocraft (Claude Code) or $photocraft (Codex).

Platforms: Installing works the same on macOS, Linux and Windows (targets above), and the SKILL.md format itself is OS-agnostic. The skill bodies, however, were authored against macOS app installs: launch and paths sections cite /Applications/<App>.app and ~/Library/Application Support/.... The apps ship native Windows and Linux builds with the same CLI/MCP/command surfaces (binary names gain .exe on Windows; config and log paths move under %APPDATA%/%LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows and ~/.local/state etc. on Linux) — so treat the macOS paths as the conceptual location and check the app's own docs/output for exact equivalents on your OS.

The skills

One skill per app across the whole Craft App Suite — the same from-scratch Rust tools the ArtCraft Launcher installs:

App	What it's for	Skill	Skill based on	Code	Learn more
PhotoCraft	Image editing: layers, masks, type and real PSD files	photocraft	0.8.2 @ 7250e6e	GitHub	Website
LightCraft	Photo library and raw development	lightcraft	0.8.0 @ 16dbb90	GitHub	Website
VectorCraft	Vector illustration	vectorcraft	0.11.0 @ 0a33cff	GitHub	Website
FigCraft	Interface design and prototyping	figcraft	0.6.0 @ 833f0d2	GitHub	Website
DesignCraft	Page layout and publishing	designcraft	0.8.0 @ 11a51d5	GitHub	Website
WordCraft	Word processing and documents	wordcraft	0.7.0 @ fc41918	GitHub	Website
DeckCraft	Presentations and slide decks	deckcraft	0.7.0 @ d78e657	GitHub	Website
GridCraft	Spreadsheets and data	gridcraft	0.7.0 @ d9d09f0	GitHub	Website
PdfCraft	Reading, organizing and protecting PDFs	pdfcraft	0.8.0 @ 9931329	GitHub	Website
EffectCraft	Motion graphics and visual effects	effectcraft	0.9.2 @ 549e9d8	GitHub	Website
FilmCraft	Video editing, color and sound	filmcraft	0.7.2 @ cee1feb	GitHub	Website
SoundCraft	Audio recording and editing	soundcraft	0.7.0 @ 3a28a65	GitHub	Website
CADCraft	Computer-aided design	cadcraft	0.7.0 @ fc4e983	GitHub	Website

Skill based on names the app release and commit each skill was written and verified against; the apps are early-alpha and move fast, so every skill also carries a verify against your installed version note.

Each skill directory contains:

• SKILL.md — the skill: overview, verified capabilities (tiered implemented / partial / not-implemented, each with a file:line evidence pointer into the app repo), known limitations, how to operate (launch, CLI usage, document model, formats), what an AI agent may and may not attempt, an alpha-software verification protocol, and the exact sources inspected.
• evidence.md — capability → evidence map used to audit the skill.
• references/ (some apps) — deeper tables (commands, formats, shortcuts).
• agents/openai.yaml — Codex/ChatGPT UI metadata (display name, short description).

Why these are trustworthy

Every capability claim is traceable to the app's source code. The skills were authored by one AI agent per repo (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, max reasoning effort, via OpenCode) against a pinned commit, then machine-audited: every cited file path resolved, every Sources & evidence SHA matched the audited tree, and headline claims (PSD read/write, XLSX function parity, PPTX round-trip, DXF/DWG, effect counts, MCP surfaces) were spot-checked against code. No capability is documented without a file:line pointer; uncertainty is labeled uncertain, never guessed.

The full method, including the regeneration recipe, lives alongside the skill sources (not in this repo).

Provenance & maintenance

• Apps and their repos move fast (early-alpha, frequent releases; installed bundles often lag repo HEAD). Each skill names the exact commit it describes and carries a verify against your installed version note.

Related

• Apps: https://getartcraft.com/apps · Source: https://github.com/storytold
• Launcher: https://github.com/storytold/craft-launcher

License

MIT — see LICENSE. These skills are original documentation about the ArtCraft apps (MIT OR Apache-2.0); they contain no third-party or Adobe assets and are clean-room-safe. ArtCraft and the app names belong to the ArtCraft/storytold project.