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cover-writer from kenashe/x-article-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- MIT
Decide whether an X Article needs a cover image (the 1200 x 480 card image), and if so brief it: pick one of ten proven briefs, write the cover sentence, produce an image-generation prompt and the specifications, and score the plan against 14 rules from a study of 1,391 covers of X Articles over 300k views. Use for any X Article cover, card image or thumbnail, after the headline and the hook are locked. "No cover" is a valid and common recommendation. Model-neutral canonical edition: the…
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What the file says
# COVER WRITER What this is: a procedure built from a study of X Article covers (research by @fuckgrowth, Sep 2026). It turns the study into a decision: whether the article needs a cover at all, which of ten briefs fits, what the cover sentence says, what an image model should be told, and how the plan scores before anyone draws anything. The study looked at 1,391 covers of X Articles over 300k views in the core topics, posted January to September 2026, so every number in it compares articles that did well with articles that did great. The dataset (with a `cover_image` column) and the research are linked in `SOURCES.md`. The skill runs after headline-writer and hook-writer, because the cover repeats the headline. This is the canonical, model-neutral edition. Generating the image, reading words off a finished image and counting faces are NOT part of the core: they live in `optional/cover-image-analysis/` and in whatever image tool the runtime has. The core produces a brief that any designer, image model or the user can execute. ## WHAT YOU NEED Required (in this folder): `rules.md` (the 14 rules), `briefs.md` (briefs A to J), a LOCKED HEADLINE and a LOCKED HOOK. …
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How to install
mdr add kenashe/x-article-toolkit/cover-writer@sha256:5d1d4a0ddc5aff70The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
kenashe/x-article-toolkit · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
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