# Krea 2 Prompting Skill **Published:** October 18, 2026 **Author:** Nikita Chernyi Hi there, This post is an “I built a thing” post about [krea2-prompting](https://github.com/rakshazi/krea2-prompting), an agent skill for writing Krea 2 prompts I built recently. Basically, that’s it: try the skill, have some fun, see you later! * * * Yeah, I get that it’s a bit unnatural for this blog to have a page *this* short, so here is some absolutely unnecessary information in case you just want to waste some time. ## Once upon a time… I got a laptop with 128GB of unified memory and ~200 GB/s of bandwidth, which is good enough to run some smaller models locally. And of course I wanted to try different things with it. Some of my experiments were pretty successful (I even wrote [You Don’t Need A %Frontier LLM%](https://rakshazi.me/blog/you-dont-need-frontier-llm/) after spending a while with 27-30b models), while others were meh. One of the “meh” experiments was trying to get diffusion models to generate images. ## Why is it “meh”? Because I played with it for a while, got some good results, and just lost interest. Yup, that simple. But I already spent a stupid amount of time on it, so it would be a shame to just throw it away and forget about it. So, I published the krea2-prompting skill, which was the result of ~~shitton~~ numerous experiments with Krea 2 Turbo. ## The skill ~~and why it is different~~ (sorry, no slop on this blog: all posts are handwritten). I’m pretty bad at talking in general, and at prompting specifically, so when I need an image of, let’s say, Kafka Hibino mid-transformation (Kaiju No. 8, hello weebs), my prompt is usually “kafka hibino transformation, legs are kaiju already, head is still human, 8k, 244mhz, make no mistakes”. The result? Some random “abstract art” with tons of artifacts, and it doesn’t even remotely resemble what I had in mind. So, if I can’t do the thing, I can always ask an LLM to do it for me. After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I ~~keep~~ ask it? Well, because… ### One Does Not Simply Ask An LLM …to generate an image. I mean, you *can*, and the results will probably be even better than your “abstract ~~f~~art”, but it still won’t be what you want. *(And also, I felt obliged to include more LOTR quotes in this post, don’t mind me.)* And the reason is pretty simple: models are trained on specific prompt formats, structures, and even specific words. In some cases, they are *dramatically* different. For example, Krea 2 wants free-form text in plain English, while WAI Illustrious works with booru tags, so if you try to use the same prompt for both, the results will be… “abstract”, to put it mildly. And because of that, I decided to spend some time on… ### Learning (pre-skill era) Or [Krea 2 Prompting Secret Guide](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=krea%202%20prompting%20guide). And it turned out that… I just didn’t know all the words needed to write the prompts. I mean, English is not my native language, and while it’s at a pretty good level (you can see it on this website), it’s more for work and technology than art. So, I decided to make my agent generate the prompts for me, and for that I asked it to compile a list of guides I found interesting online into a single skill. ### The skill was born Though the results were still subpar. Because, well, the basics from those guides, prompt structure and whatnot, did help a lot, but the results were still “not as I imagined it”. So, anyway, I started ~~blasting~~ generating prompts with my agent, trying them and basically documenting what went wrong. Usually there were batches of 10 images per run, each image with a prompt focused on one specific aspect. My assumption was: “okay, you can’t get a full kaiju from a `make no mistakes` prompt, so let’s try to get a head, a tail, a claw, etc. separately, figure out what’s wrong with each of them, fix, repeat, and then combine them into a single guide”. Turns out, it worked! The actual method: use a static params (same checkpoint, same sampling settings, same everything, including seed `424242`, because it is the answer, you know), and change 1 variable per prompt iteration. If that changed the result -> document it; it stays. If it didn’t (or produced some garbage) -> document it in the failures table. But… ### I want MOAR! As of publication, the skill contains 11 reference files, each focusing on a specific topic (well, 3 of them are mostly technical and basic guidance, but anyway). How did I get them? Trial and error, and hundreds of prompts generated by my agent. Simple as that. The funny part: `adult.md` took the most time, and I seriously think it’s the most valuable reference file in the skill, because it turned out that naked people stuff was harder to get right for the Krea 2 Turbo NSFW checkpoint than kaiju transformations. ### What’s next? Nothing. I mean, I wanted to play with local diffusion models. I did get good results, but that’s it. I lost interest because I don’t have any use cases for it. It was a fun experiment that took an insane amount of time, and I’m pretty satisfied with it. ## Setup Some [readers asked](https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1x8z6x3/krea_2_prompting_skill_with_huge_references/) what I use to run the skill, so here is the full setup: ### Agent The “prompt generator” part. - Harness: [Oh My Pi](https://omp.sh) - Models *(I used different models while experimenting; can’t say the results differed, but here is the full list anyway)*: - Cloud ([Venice.ai](https://venice.ai/chat?ref=kpXDe6 "my personal ref link with $10 bonus")): [GLM 5.3 Flash](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash), [DeepSeek v4 Flash (0423)](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash), [DeepSeek v4.1 Flash](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) - Local: [Qwen 3.8 27b Swift (1.0/1.5)](https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-Qwen3.8-27b), [Qwen 3.8 27b GSQ-RCO](https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF) (original, ISTA-DASLab), [Muse Glimmer 30b](https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B) ### Diffusion The “image generator” part. - Harness: [ComfyUI](https://comfy.org/) (I used desktop + MCP for my agent) - Model: [Krea 2 Turbo Lustify Checkpoint](https://civitai.red/models/573152/lustify-nsfw-checkpoint?modelVersionId=3112728) (I started with the standard Krea 2 Turbo, but switched to this checkpoint for `adult.md`) ## TL;DR - Skill repo: [github.com/rakshazi/krea2-prompting](https://github.com/rakshazi/krea2-prompting) - Works with any agent that supports skills - Designed to work with Krea 2 Turbo specifically - Prompting only: checkpoints and workflows are yours to figure out - This blog post is absolutely unnecessary, just go to the skill repo --- [Nikita Chernyi](https://rakshazi.me/) > [Blog](https://rakshazi.me/blog/) > Krea 2 Prompting Skill [llms.txt](https://rakshazi.me/llms.txt) - machine-readable site index