知识漫画生成

知识漫画：教育、传记、技术故事的可视化漫画创作

Knowledge Comic Creator

Adapted from baoyu-comic for Hermes Agent's tool ecosystem.

Create original knowledge comics with flexible art style × tone combinations.

使用场景

Trigger this skill when the user asks to create a knowledge/educational comic, biography comic, tutorial comic, or uses terms like "知识漫画", "教育漫画", or "Logicomix-style". The user provides content (text, file path, URL, or topic) and optionally specifies art style, tone, layout, aspect ratio, or language.

参考资料 Images

Hermes' image_generate tool is prompt-only — it accepts a text prompt and an aspect ratio, and returns an image URL. It does NOT accept reference images. When the user supplies a reference image, use it to extract traits in text that get embedded in every page prompt:

Intake: Accept file paths when the user provides them (or pastes images in conversation).

Usage modes (per reference):

Record in each page's prompt frontmatter when refs exist:

references:
  - ref_id: 01
    filename: 01-ref-scene.png
    usage: style
    traits: "muted earth tones, soft-edged ink wash, low-contrast backgrounds"

Character consistency is driven by text descriptions in characters/characters.md (written in Step 3) that get embedded inline in every page prompt (Step 5). The optional PNG character sheet generated in Step 7.1 is a human-facing review artifact, not an input to image_generate.

选项说明

Visual Dimensions

Partial Workflow Options

Details: references/partial-workflows.md

Art, Tone & Preset Catalogue

Full rules at references/presets/.md — load the file when a preset is picked.

文件结构

Output directory: comic/{topic-slug}/

Contents:

Language Handling

Detection Priority:

Rule: Use user's input language for ALL interactions:

Technical terms remain in English.

工作流程

Progress Checklist

Comic Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Setup & Analyze
  - [ ] 1.1 Analyze content
  - [ ] 1.2 Check existing directory
- [ ] Step 2: Confirmation - Style & options ⚠️ REQUIRED
- [ ] Step 3: Generate storyboard + characters
- [ ] Step 4: Review outline (conditional)
- [ ] Step 5: Generate prompts
- [ ] Step 6: Review prompts (conditional)
- [ ] Step 7: Generate images
  - [ ] 7.1 Generate character sheet (if needed) → characters/characters.png
  - [ ] 7.2 Generate pages (with character descriptions embedded in prompt)
- [ ] Step 8: Completion report

Flow

Input → Analyze → [Check Existing?] → [Confirm: Style + Reviews] → Storyboard → [Review?] → Prompts → [Review?] → Images → Complete

Step Summary

User Questions

Use the clarify tool to confirm options. Since clarify handles one question at a time, ask the most important question first and proceed sequentially. See references/workflow.md for the full Step 2 question set.

Timeout handling (CRITICAL): clarify can return "The user did not provide a response within the time limit. Use your best judgement to make the choice and proceed." — this is NOT user consent to default everything.

Step 7: Image Generation

Use Hermes' built-in image_generate tool for all image rendering. Its schema accepts only prompt and aspect_ratio (landscape | portrait | square); it returns a URL, not a local file. Every generated page or character sheet must therefore be downloaded to the output directory.

Prompt file requirement (hard): write each image's full, final prompt to a standalone file under prompts/ (naming: NN-{type}-[slug].md) BEFORE calling image_generate. The prompt file is the reproducibility record.

Aspect ratio mapping — the storyboard's aspect_ratio field maps to image_generate's format as follows:

Download step — after every image_generate call:

curl -fsSL "" -o /abs/path/to/comic//NN-page-.png

Never rely on shell CWD persistence for -o paths. The terminal tool's persistent-shell CWD can change between batches (session expiry, TERMINAL_LIFETIME_SECONDS, a failed cd that leaves you in the wrong directory). curl -o relative/path.png is a silent footgun: if CWD has drifted, the file lands somewhere else with no error. Always pass a fully-qualified absolute path to -o, or pass workdir= to the terminal tool. Incident Apr 2026: pages 06-09 of a 10-page comic landed at the repo root instead of comic// because batch 3 inherited a stale CWD from batch 2 and curl -o 06-page-skills.png wrote to the wrong directory. The agent then spent several turns claiming the files existed where they didn't.

7.1 Character sheet — generate it (to characters/characters.png, aspect landscape) when the comic is multi-page with recurring characters. Skip for simple presets (e.g., four-panel minimalist) or single-page comics. The prompt file at characters/characters.md must exist before invoking image_generate. The rendered PNG is a human-facing review artifact (so the user can visually verify character design) and a reference for later regenerations or manual prompt edits — it does not drive Step 7.2. Page prompts are already written in Step 5 from the text descriptions in characters/characters.md; image_generate cannot accept images as visual input.

7.2 Pages — each page's prompt MUST already be at prompts/NN-{cover|page}-[slug].md before invoking image_generate. Because image_generate is prompt-only, character consistency is enforced by embedding character descriptions (sourced from characters/characters.md) inline in every page prompt during Step 5. The embedding is done uniformly whether or not a PNG sheet is produced in 7.1; the PNG is only a review/regeneration aid.

Backup rule: existing prompts/…md and …png files → rename with -backup-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS suffix before regenerating.

Full step-by-step workflow (analysis, storyboard, review gates, regeneration variants): references/workflow.md.

参考资料

Core Templates:

Style Definitions:

Workflow:

Page Modification

IMPORTANT: When updating pages, ALWAYS update the prompt file (prompts/NN-{cover|page}-[slug].md) FIRST before regenerating. This ensures changes are documented and reproducible.

Pitfalls