thumb

thumb is a command for Claude Code from coltonbearden/carrel. It costs 17 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command recipe for creating thumbnail images from PDFs, regular images, HTML files, and ICO icons using the carrel command-line tool. It explains supported inputs, output options, compatibility fallback, and expected results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making PNG thumbnails, choosing their size and output folder, reading JSON results, handling missing files or optional binaries, and using an older conversion command when needed.
Why use it?
It turns different file types into small previews while checking the installed tool's actual options and reporting missing dependencies clearly.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the carrel-convert plugin — 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Making PNG thumbnails, choosing their size and output folder, reading JSON results, handling missing files or optional binaries, and using an older conversion command when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/coltonbearden/carrel/thumb
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coltonbearden/carrel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install carrel-convert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00555
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00222
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 33ed89e4c63c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thumb scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/carrel-convert/commands/thumb.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Generate thumbnail(s) for: $ARGUMENTS

Run the carrel CLI via Bash. Map the user's request onto the real flags in the --help block below (regenerated from the CLI by scripts/sync_plugins.py; if the installed carrel thumb --help differs, trust the installed version — never invent flags):

Usage: carrel thumb [OPTIONS] SRC...

  Create thumbnails for SRC... (pdf, png, jpg, ico, html).

  Thumbnails land in --out-dir as <name>.<format>, aspect preserved, never larger than --size on
  either edge. With --json, prints one JSON array of {"src", "thumb", "w", "h"} records.

Options:
  --size INTEGER RANGE  Maximum edge length in pixels.  [default: 256; x>=1]
  --out-dir DIRECTORY   Directory for the thumbnails.  [default: thumbs]
  --format [png|jpg]    Thumbnail image format.  [default: png]
  --json                Machine-readable JSON output.
  --help                Show this message and exit.

Note: --json is a global flag and may come before the subcommand.

  • SRC...: pdf (first page), png/jpg images, html, or ico files.
  • --size N (default 256): maximum edge length in pixels, aspect preserved.
  • --out-dir DIR (default ./thumbs): where thumbnails land as <name>.<format>.
  • --format png|jpg: thumbnail image format.

If the installed carrel predates thumb (its --help reports no such command), fall back to carrel convert SRC --to png for pdf/image sources and say so.

Interpret the JSON result: report each {src, thumb, w, h} record and where the files landed. Exit code 3 means an optional binary (e.g. pdftoppm) is missing — relay the install hint from stderr.

Requires the carrel CLI on PATH. If carrel is not found, tell the user to install it with uv tool install carrel (see the repo's INSTALL notes), or run it as uv run carrel ... from the carrel repo root.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines 33ed89e4c63c
  2. 1mo ago Changed 09b3c1bd359a
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 689eebd6ea32

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thumb is a command published in the GitHub repository coltonbearden/carrel (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.