algorithmic-art

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, design, developer-tools, generative, visual-art, web.

What it does

Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow fields, or particle systems. Create original algorithmic art rather than copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill algorithmic-art

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/algorithmic-art ~/.claude/skills/algorithmic-art

Safety box score

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Source

Repository

anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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