Re:Claude Skills
by josefresco on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:13PM
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I just used tested the canvas-design skill and the results were pretty awful.
This is the skill description:
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
What it created was an abstract art museum-esque poster with random shapes and no discernable message. It may have been trying to design a playing card but just failed miserably which is my experience with most AI image generators.
It certainly spent a lot of time, and effort to create the poster. It asked initial questions, developed a plan, did research, created tooling - seems like a waste of "tokens" given how simple and lame the resulting image turned out.
Also after testing I still don't know how to "use" one of these skills in an actual chat.
This is the skill description:
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
What it created was an abstract art museum-esque poster with random shapes and no discernable message. It may have been trying to design a playing card but just failed miserably which is my experience with most AI image generators.
It certainly spent a lot of time, and effort to create the poster. It asked initial questions, developed a plan, did research, created tooling - seems like a waste of "tokens" given how simple and lame the resulting image turned out.
Also after testing I still don't know how to "use" one of these skills in an actual chat.