An image guide file is a text file containing one or more drawing commands which describe guides to overlay on compositing images.
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In a compositing viewer pane, open the right side toolbar and click
Display Options or press D to open the Display Options window.
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Click the Viewport tab.
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Use the Image Guide option to set the image guide file to use.
 
Commands
All coordinates are expressed in pixels.
color R G B A  
        
Sets the drawing color.
box X Y Width Height  
        
Draws a box at (X,Y) with the specified Width and Height.
rect X1 Y1 X2 Y2  
        
Draws a box with one corner at (X1, Y1) and the opposite corner at (X2, Y2).
line X1 Y1 X2 Y2  
        
Draws a line from (X1, Y1) to (X2, Y2).
lines N dX dY X1 Y1 X2 Y2  
        
Draws N lines from (X1, Y1) to (X2, Y2), offsetting both coordinate pairs by ( dX, dY) each time. Use this to draw grids.