Zyncli Template Skills

Open-source visual Skills for turning articles, blogs, newsletters, essays, and social posts into coherent illustration sets.

Zyncli is a visual Skill platform for article illustration. Instead of asking an image model to make a series of disconnected pictures, each Zyncli template gives an AI agent a reusable visual system: how to understand the writing, which ideas deserve an image, how to compose each scene, and how to keep the complete set visually consistent.

This repository contains 55 open-source templates from the Zyncli template library. Every template is packaged as an independently installable Agent Skill.

What a visual Skill does

A Zyncli Skill guides an agent through the complete illustration workflow:

1. Read the article and identify its central argument, contrasts, turning points, systems, and conclusion.
2. Select the moments that genuinely benefit from an illustration instead of decorating every paragraph.
3. Build a shot plan with one clear idea and a distinct composition for every image.
4. Apply the template's visual DNA, palette, medium, metaphor system, and negative constraints.
5. Generate each illustration with the image-generation tool available to the agent.
6. Review the result for semantic accuracy, style consistency, repetition, anatomy, typography, and production quality.

These are more than reusable prompts. Each Skill combines editorial reasoning with a repeatable visual direction and a QA workflow.

Example styles

The current library includes editorial illustration, documentary photography, 3D systems, data graphics, collage, abstract geometry, workplace scenes, ink drawing, and other visual directions.

Strategic Convergence	Documentary Work
Editorial data graphics for strategy, transformation, and leadership.	Naturalistic workplace photography built around credible human actions.

Soft Systems 3D	Cutout Editorial Collage
Tactile 3D systems for approachable product and workflow stories.	Layered paper collage for culture, media, strategy, and technology essays.

The images above are representative outputs generated from the corresponding Skill directions. Each Skill includes three example images for visual calibration.

New original material collection

The latest release adds 20 original directions designed to be visibly different at the level that matters: material, metaphor vocabulary, spatial grammar, and editorial purpose. The collection spans engineered chrome, gouache reportage, felt craft, painterly allegory, cyanotype evidence, precision circuits, physical realism, ink wash, paper architecture, risograph, relief print, mosaic, pastel, ceramic mechanisms, cutaway systems, stained glass, charcoal reportage, axonometric workplaces, shadow theatre, and marbled abstraction.

Chrome Currents	Gouache Field Notes
Engineered metal and cobalt ribbons for systems, infrastructure, and strategic forces.	Observational painted scenes for workplace, community, and field-report stories.

Process Cutaway	Shadow Stage
Sectioned machines that expose hidden workflows, dependencies, and failure points.	Cinematic paper theatre for moral tension, consequences, and narrative essays.

New human and systems collection

The newest 10 Skills add conceptual photography, symbolic linework, warm distributed-work scenes, community illustration, care-focused storytelling, architectural 3D, spatial information design, deadpan ink, kinetic saturated illustration, and tactile character 3D. They were built as independent Zyncli systems rather than replicas of a named artist or publication.

Inner Terrain	Monumental Metaphor
Double-exposure photography for identity, wellbeing, climate, and memory.	Architectural 3D for operations, enterprise change, and large systems.

Raw Logic	Candy Crowd 3D
Deadpan ink metaphors for opinion, bureaucracy, and workplace friction.	Grainy character 3D for learning, community, and playful teamwork.

Browse all 55 directions in the complete Skill catalog.

What is inside each Skill

skills/
└── documentary-work/
    ├── SKILL.md
    ├── agents/
    │   └── openai.yaml
    ├── references/
    │   └── style-guide.md
    └── assets/
        └── examples/
            ├── 01.webp
            ├── 02.webp
            └── 03.webp

• SKILL.md contains the article analysis, shot-planning, generation, iteration, and delivery workflow.
• references/style-guide.md defines the visual DNA, palette, composition patterns, metaphor rules, must-have qualities, forbidden patterns, and QA rubric.
• assets/examples/ provides low-frequency visual calibration without asking the agent to copy a specific composition.
• agents/openai.yaml provides the display metadata used by compatible agent interfaces.

The Skills are provider-agnostic. They do not contain model credentials or depend on a specific image API. Use them with an agent that supports Agent Skills and has access to an image-generation tool.

Install

List every available Skill:

npx skills add hahayang888/zyncli-template --list

Install one Skill globally:

npx skills add hahayang888/zyncli-template --skill documentary-work -g

Install several Skills:

npx skills add hahayang888/zyncli-template \
  --skill documentary-work \
  --skill glass-systems \
  --skill strategic-convergence \
  -g

Install the complete library:

npx skills add hahayang888/zyncli-template --skill '*' -g

The open skills CLI supports Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and many other agents. Consult its documentation for agent-specific paths and installation options.

Use

After installation, provide the article and ask your agent to use the Skill by name:

Use $documentary-work to plan and generate four illustrations for this article.
Show me the shot plan before generating the images.

For a diagram-led article:

Use $strategic-convergence to turn this strategy essay into a coherent
three-image visual set. Keep labels short and use only facts from the article.

Every Skill is designed to plan the complete set before generating individual images. Reviewing the shot plan first is recommended when factual accuracy, brand safety, or generation cost matters.

Browse the library

See CATALOG.md for the complete catalog, including each Skill's category, medium, and best-fit content.

Current directions include:

• Editorial and conceptual illustration
• Photography and realistic workplace scenes
• 3D objects, characters, and systems
• Infographics and explanatory diagrams
• Collage, print, paper, ink, and charcoal
• Technology, business, culture, education, and personal essays

Continuously updated with Zyncli

This repository will grow alongside the template library on zyncli.com. When a new website template reaches production quality, its corresponding open-source Skill will be added here with its workflow, style guide, and visual examples.

That means the public library is not a fixed release or a one-time prompt collection. New styles, improved QA rules, and refinements from real generation results will continue to be published over time.

Watch or star the repository if you want to follow new template releases.

Zyncli and this repository

The open-source Skills are useful when you want to run a template directly inside your own agent workflow.

Zyncli adds the hosted product experience around them: article planning, template discovery, private reusable brand Skills, reference management, image generation, project history, and production delivery.

Contributing

Bug reports and focused improvements are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before changing a Skill, and keep its workflow, style guide, examples, and agent metadata aligned.

All Skills are automatically validated on every push.

License

The template Skills are released under the MIT License. The Zyncli name and logo are not licensed as part of the templates.