netlify-image-cdn

netlify-image-cdn is a cursor rule for coding agents from netlify/context-and-tools. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,110 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

Instructions for transforming images through Netlify’s built-in Image CDN, a service that delivers resized and optimized images. Requests can resize, crop, reformat, adjust quality, or create blurred placeholders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for responsive images, thumbnails, aspect-ratio crops, format conversion such as WebP or AVIF, quality settings, and remote-image allowlisting.
Why use it?
It avoids writing a separate function or image-processing service for common image delivery tasks.

Cursor rule

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-image-cdn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netlify/context-and-tools

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for netlify-image-cdn

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-image-cdn"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-image-cdn.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 127 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,110 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00127 $0.02110
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01055
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00211

Measured 4d ago against content hash 942cd5d77d18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

netlify-image-cdn scanned grade C with 2 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 4d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- system: agent-context/image-cdn/system.md — human-owned, merged by ctx-gen; edit system.md, not this section -->

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -vs 'https://mysitename.netlify.app/.netlify/images?url=/owl.jpeg&fit=cover&w=50&h=50&position=left&fm=webp&q=80'
cursor/rules/netlify-image-cdn.mdc · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Netlify Image CDN

Transform images by requesting /.netlify/images with query parameters. No function or file authoring required — it's a built-in edge endpoint.

# resize + crop to a 50px square, retain left side, convert to webp at q=80
curl -vs 'https://mysitename.netlify.app/.netlify/images?url=/owl.jpeg&fit=cover&w=50&h=50&position=left&fm=webp&q=80'

There is no legacy/deprecated form — the endpoint above is the only programmatic surface. Use framework image components where available (below) rather than hand-building URLs.

Endpoint & query parameters

GET /.netlify/images?url=<source>&...

Param Values Notes
url relative path or full remote URL REQUIRED. Only required param.
w integer px width
h integer px height
fit contain (default), cover, fill resize behavior
position center (default), top, bottom, left, right only applies when fit=cover
fm avif, jpg, png, webp, gif, blurhash output format; webp/gif can be animated
q integer 1100 (default 75) only for avif, jpg, gif, webp

fit behavior

fit= aspect ratio kept crops excess returns exact dimensions
contain yes no no — one dimension may be smaller
cover no yes yes — scaled proportionally, then cropped
fill no no yes — stretched/squished if needed
  • fit=cover requires BOTH w and h. Supplying only one silently misbehaves.
  • contain with one dimension calculates the other to preserve aspect ratio.

Format & content negotiation

  • Source-only request (just url, no size/format): image is unchanged in size/shape but still reformatted to avif/webp based on the browser's Accept header.
  • No fm specified → webp if accepted, else avif if accepted, else original.
  • fm=blurhash returns a BlurHash text string, not image bytes. Pointing <img src> or a CSS background at it renders nothing. Fetch the string server-side/ahead of time, decode it client-side with a BlurHash library (https://blurha.sh), then load the real image as a separate request without fm=blurhash.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 161 lines · 127 tokens per session scan C 942cd5d77d18

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netlify-image-cdn is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository netlify/context-and-tools (36 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,110 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.