Overview
Markdown Illustrator reads a markdown file and converts it into a visualization-first response: one Visual Brief and one final prompt compiled for image generation. The skill is not trying to become a design questionnaire. It infers a compact visual strategy from the document and request, then returns something concrete enough to use in a diffuser workflow.
Its strength is focus. Rather than exploding a document into many style options, it distills the central narrative, visual opportunity, and must-show elements so the resulting prompt is both imaginative and grounded in the source text.
Concepts
- Document-wide interpretation: the skill looks for the strongest single image-worthy idea instead of mirroring every markdown heading.
- Visual Brief as contract: subject, audience, mood, and must-show elements anchor the final prompt.
- Best-effort visual strategy: intent, abstraction level, treatment, and aspect ratio are inferred unless the user explicitly steers them.
- Prompt compilation: the final output is meant to be pasteable and production-ready rather than a loose brainstorm.
Usage guidance
Use this skill when a markdown file should become a hero image, keynote opener, visual digest, illustration prompt, or other image-first artifact. It is especially useful when the document already contains a strong narrative but the team wants the agent to do the visual distillation instead of asking a menu of follow-up questions.
Keep the request simple unless you truly need a specific aesthetic or model behavior. The skill works best when it can infer the default visual treatment from the document, then spend its effort making the final prompt clear, specific, and renderable.