# About illo skill

HTML: https://illo-skill.com/about

illo skill is an open-source Agent Skills-format skill that turns a short idea, a social post, or a full article into original editorial illustrations. Recurring mascot characters perform the idea — one caught scene by default, or a mini-comic, explainer diagram, or transparent cutout when that is the right register.

The skill runs inside the user's coding agent. It is not a hosted image API, a SaaS account, or a web app you log into. This origin publishes a read-only character catalog, OpenAPI, and a catalog-only MCP. There is no render API, OAuth, webhook, or checkout. Rendering is the installed skill (`illo.py`).

Trevin Chow makes illo skill and this marketing site. The skill and the community character packs are MIT-licensed. Source lives in two public GitHub repositories:

- Skill: https://github.com/tmchow/illo-skill
- Character packs: https://github.com/tmchow/illo-characters

This website (illo-skill.com) is the public catalog and documentation surface: install commands, examples, the character gallery, and machine-readable files such as `/llms.txt` and `/characters.json`. Image generation happens on the user's machine through a signed-in Codex CLI or Grok CLI, Grok Bot's built-in image tool, or an OpenRouter key the user stores locally.

Contact: https://illo-skill.com/contact
Privacy: https://illo-skill.com/privacy
Developer resources: https://illo-skill.com/developers