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Paper-cut explainers: explainer, made in this run
Run 1Paper-cut explainers“Make a paper-cut explainer of the life cycle of a frog”
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

Paper-Cut Explainers

Science explainers made of layered coloured card with soft shadows.

$9.99once, yours to keep

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Makes paper-cut science explainers as one finished PNG for a post, lesson, slide or poster: layered coloured card cut-outs with soft shadows and a friendly rounded type. 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 that repeats; 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 paper-cut or layered-paper style explainer, a friendly science diagram, or a cycle picture for kids or a lesson.

By RecaplyUpdated 11 Nov

Install Paper-Cut Explainers

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

Read https://recaply.co/skills/paper-cut-explainer/install.md and follow it to install the paper-cut-explainer skill from paper-cut-explainer.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 Paper-Cut Explainers is for

What you get

  • One explainer picture, with every label set in real type
  • Drawn as layered coloured card cut-outs with soft shadows and a friendly rounded type
  • Labels spelled exactly; the model never draws words

Good fit

  • School science
  • Nature cycles
  • Friendly product explainers

Not for

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

About this skill

You say

Make a paper-cut explainer of the life cycle of a frog

It said back

The frog life-cycle explainer is ready: frog/explainer.png (2800×2060).

  • Layout: it's a cycle, because the life cycle loops. The stages go frogspawn → tadpole → froglet → adult frog, then back to frogspawn. "Every spring, in the pond" sits in the middle. The four stages and the spring timing come from your notes.md.
  • Drawings: I redrew two of them. The first eggs had several dots each, but real frogspawn has one dark dot per egg. The first froglet looked like a grown frog with no visible tail. I checked the finished image: every word is spelled right, nothing overlaps, and the numbered arrows make the reading order clear.
  • Cost: $0.043 for 6 picture calls (4 drawings plus the 2 redraws) on fal.
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What it did in run 1

  1. paper-cut-explainer
  2. node .claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/check.mjs; ls
  3. ./notes.md
  4. ./frog/plan.json
  5. cd ./frog && node ../.claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/draw.mjs plan.json && ls art
  6. ./frog/art/item-1.png
  7. ./frog/art/item-2.png
  8. ./frog/art/item-3.png
  9. ./frog/art/item-4.png
  10. python3 - <<'E' import json p=json.load(open('plan.json')) p['items'][0]['art']="a floating clump of many small clear jelly balls, each with a single black dot in its centre, among pond weed" p['items'][2]['art']="a tiny young frog seen from the side, with four small legs and a long thin tadpole tail still trailing behind it, resting on a lily pad" json.dump(p,open('plan.json','w'),indent=2) E node ../.claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/draw.mjs plan.json --only item-1 && node ../.claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/draw.mjs plan.json --only item-3
  11. ./frog/plan.json
  12. ./frog/plan.json
  13. node ../.claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/draw.mjs plan.json --only item-1; node ../.claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/draw.mjs plan.json --only item-3
  14. ./frog/art/item-1.png
  15. ./frog/art/item-3.png
  16. node ../.claude/skills/paper-cut-explainer/scripts/compose.mjs plan.json
  17. ./frog/explainer.png
  18. Done

9 Nov 2026 · Claude Code 2.1.322 with Claude Opus 5.5 · 1 min 10 s · $0.32 of API use

Questions

Is Paper-Cut Explainers free?

No. Paper-Cut Explainers 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 Paper-Cut Explainers?

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

What do I get when I buy Paper-Cut Explainers?

A ZIP of the whole skill folder (24 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 Paper-Cut Explainers?

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 ./paper-cut-explainer with your agent's flag.

What do I get from Paper-Cut Explainers?

One explainer picture, with every label set in real type. Drawn as layered coloured card cut-outs with soft shadows and a friendly rounded type. Labels spelled exactly; the model never draws words.

What does Paper-Cut Explainers 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 Paper-Cut Explainers?

6 files, about 15,047 tokens in all. The SKILL.md is about 2,112 tokens, and your agent reads it only when the job fits.

What does a run cost?

Our 1 runs took 1 min 10 s to 1 min 10 s and $0.32 to $0.32 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 Paper-Cut Explainers to use it?

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