collage-design, Claude skill for making collage art

I made an agent skill that creates collage images, you can get it here. I’ve been playing a lot recently with Anthropic’s canvas-design skill, it’s also a nice example how context and workflow can be embedded into a skill to enhance the agent’s harness, rather than just adding a glorified prompt that will probably be improved anyway by a better model. But algorithmic images only go so far, and I was missing real imagery without the taste of generated photos. So I got the idea of trying to create collages with an algorithm instead. Creating a collage has a fairly simple approach: decide the topic and format, collect material, cut and compose until you like what you see. Replicating that into an algorithmic skill turned out to be three separate problems. Strike Anywhere, from the brief: “A square print for my kitchen made from old matchbox labels, hundreds of tiny loud pictures. I want it to feel like a collector’s sheet that’s got out of hand.” 244 fragments cut from 179 public domain…