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Life cycle diagrams: explainer, made in this run
Run 1Life cycle diagrams“Make a life cycle diagram of a butterfly for my class”
Runs in
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI
  • GitHub Copilot
  • OpenCode
Generates with
Your agent's modelFLUX.2 [dev]falFLUX.2 klein 9BCloudflare Workers AI
Tested with
Claude Code 2.1.322Claude Opus 5.51 real run, 9 Nov
Needs
Node 20+ChromeA fal or Cloudflare Workers AI key
Licence
Recaply licence

Life Cycle Diagrams

A watercolour life cycle loop with a drawing at each stage and labels in real type, for science lessons and nature posts.

$9.99once, yours to keep

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Makes life cycle diagrams as one finished PNG for a post, lesson, slide or poster: soft watercolour washes with fine ink outlines and handwritten-style labels on warm paper. The drawings come from a picture model and every word is set in real type on top, so labels are always spelled right. Best as a cycle of 4 to 6 stages; other layouts work too. Needs a FAL_KEY or a Cloudflare Workers AI key; about $0.01 to $0.02 a drawing. Use when someone wants a life cycle diagram, a cycle of stages such as the water cycle or a butterfly life cycle, or a looping process for a lesson.

By RecaplyUpdated 11 Nov

Install Life Cycle Diagrams

After the download, ask your agent to add it, or run the line yourself.

Read https://recaply.co/skills/life-cycle-diagram/install.md and follow it to install the life-cycle-diagram skill from life-cycle-diagram.zip.

Paste it into your agent. It reads our install steps, finds the ZIP you downloaded and adds the skill for you.

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Who Life Cycle Diagrams is for

What you get

  • One explainer picture, with every label set in real type
  • Drawn as soft watercolour washes with fine ink outlines and handwritten-style labels on warm paper
  • Labels spelled exactly; the model never draws words

Good fit

  • Science lessons
  • Nature guides
  • School posters

Not for

  • Charts that must show exact data
  • Pictures of real people

About this skill

You say

Make a life cycle diagram of a butterfly for my class

It said back

Your butterfly life cycle diagram is ready: butterfly/explainer.png (3200×2340, sharp enough to print or project).

It's a loop of four watercolour drawings with arrows between them, going egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → adult butterfly and back to egg. I chose a loop because the adult lays the eggs that start the cycle again. Each stage has a number, a handwritten-style label and one short sentence. The subtitle introduces the word "metamorphosis."

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What it did in run 1

  1. life-cycle-diagram
  2. node .claude/skills/life-cycle-diagram/scripts/check.mjs
  3. ./butterfly/plan.json
  4. cd butterfly && node ../.claude/skills/life-cycle-diagram/scripts/draw.mjs plan.json && ls art
  5. ./butterfly/art/item-1.png
  6. ./butterfly/art/item-2.png
  7. ./butterfly/art/item-3.png
  8. ./butterfly/art/item-4.png
  9. node ../.claude/skills/life-cycle-diagram/scripts/compose.mjs plan.json; cat costs.json
  10. ./butterfly/explainer.png
  11. Done

9 Nov 2026 · Claude Code 2.1.322 with Claude Opus 5.5 · 43 s · $0.23 of API use

Questions

Is Life Cycle Diagrams free?

No. Life Cycle Diagrams costs $9.99 once and stays in your Recaply account, or it comes with the Recaply plan ($19.99 a month), which opens every premium skill and prompt.

Which agents can use Life Cycle Diagrams?

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

What do I get when I buy Life Cycle Diagrams?

A ZIP of the whole skill folder (25 KB): the SKILL.md your agent follows and its 5 other files, the references, templates and scripts it uses. You download it from this page whenever you need it, and install it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. The Recaply plan opens it too, with every other premium skill and prompt.

How do I install Life Cycle Diagrams?

Buy it, then download the ZIP from this page. For Claude Code, unzip it into .claude/skills/ in your project. For Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, unzip it and run npx skills add ./life-cycle-diagram with your agent's flag.

What do I get from Life Cycle Diagrams?

One explainer picture, with every label set in real type. Drawn as soft watercolour washes with fine ink outlines and handwritten-style labels on warm paper. Labels spelled exactly; the model never draws words.

What does Life Cycle Diagrams need?

Node 20+, Chrome and a fal or Cloudflare Workers AI key (it reads FAL_KEY). Each use costs about $0.01 to $0.02 a drawing.

How big is Life Cycle Diagrams?

6 files, about 15,090 tokens in all. The SKILL.md is about 2,096 tokens, and your agent reads it only when the job fits.

What does a run cost?

Our 1 runs took 43 s to 43 s and $0.23 to $0.23 of API use each, in Claude Code with claude-opus-5-5. On a Claude plan, a run counts toward your usage instead.

Do I have to name Life Cycle Diagrams to use it?

Type /life-cycle-diagram first to make sure it loads. Without it, Claude Code may judge a small job simple enough to do without the skill.