alt-text

alt-text is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ahgraber/skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A tool for writing alt text, the short description that makes an image, chart, diagram, or screenshot understandable to people who cannot see it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe figures in documentation, explain charts, or create accessible descriptions of attached images and diagrams.
Why use it?
It helps document the important content and meaning of visual material for accessibility and reference.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to describe figures in documentation, explain charts, or create accessible descriptions of attached images and diagrams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahgraber/skills/alt-text
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ahgraber/skills --skill alt-text
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahgraber/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 alt-text

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ahgraber/skills/alt-text/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ahgraber/skills/alt-text)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for alt-text

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 399 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 $0.00039 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 8d ago against content hash d8309d6495cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alt-text 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 8d 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.

skills/alt-text/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Alt-Text

When to Use

  • User attaches an image and asks for a description or alt-text
  • User shares a chart, diagram, schematic, or screenshot and wants it explained
  • User needs an accessible description for documentation or publishing

If the image is not attached, ask the user to attach it before proceeding.

Invocation Notice

  • Tell the user when this skill is running: alt-text. Skip the notice when the user asked for the skill by name or slash command; spelling and spacing need not match. A phrase from this skill's own trigger list is not a name — naming the work is not naming the skill.

Instructions

Describe the figure so a reader who cannot see it understands both what it depicts and what it communicates. The description should be detailed enough that someone could reproduce or redraw the figure from the text alone.

Cover, as applicable:

  • Figure type and overall structure (e.g., bar chart, flowchart, photograph, schematic)
  • Key elements: labels, axes, data values, components, or steps
  • Relationships, trends, comparisons, sequences, or hierarchies shown
  • Outcomes, conclusions, or emphasis the figure conveys

Write in plain declarative sentences, present tense. End with a period.

Do not:

  • Open with "image of," "picture of," "figure of," "graphic of," or similar
  • Use phrases like "shown above," "as seen," or "depicted here"
  • Describe visual styling (colors, fonts, layout) unless it carries meaning
  • Guess at emotions, identities, or intent not clearly conveyed by the figure

Output

Respond with the description only — no preamble, commentary, or metadata.

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. 8d ago First seen · 48 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A d8309d6495cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alt-text is a skill published in the GitHub repository ahgraber/skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 399 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.

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