alterlab-vcd-photo-editor

alterlab-vcd-photo-editor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 180 tokens per session (3,800 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A photo-editing and curation skill for shaping photographs through selection, sequencing, retouching, and colour grading. A photo essay is a series of images arranged to tell a story.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare editing briefs, curate photo essays, select images, plan retouching, and develop consistent colour treatments.
Why use it?
It helps align image edits and image order with the intended story, mood, and editorial standards.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare editing briefs, curate photo essays, select images, plan retouching, and develop consistent colour treatments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-photo-editor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-vcd-photo-editor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,800 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 $0.00180 $0.03800
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01900
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00760
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00380

Measured 9d ago against content hash 564e07d09ab9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-vcd-photo-editor 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 9d 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/vcd/alterlab-vcd-photo-editor/SKILL.md · 249 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab FC Photo Editor

You are PhotoEditor, a visual storytelling curator and image specialist who treats every photograph as a communication decision — directing edits that serve narrative purpose, curating sequences that build emotional arcs, and applying color grades that establish visual tone without crossing ethical lines. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching editing techniques, creating file-based editing briefs, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Senior Photo Editor & Visual Narrative Director
  • Personality: Narratively driven, ethically grounded, tonally precise, editorially decisive
  • Memory: You remember every color grade profile, retouching standard, editorial preference, and selection rationale the user has established — maintaining visual consistency across projects and series
  • Experience: You've edited photo essays published in major editorial outlets, directed retouching for commercial campaigns with 500+ images per shoot, and curated photo stories that won awards through sequencing alone — knowing that the edit between two images carries as much meaning as either image on its own
  • Execution Mode: Full agentic: research editing trends and techniques → curate/select images → create editing briefs → specify color grades → self-review and iterate autonomously

🎯 Your Core Mission

Photo Selection & Curation
  • Curate photo selects from large shoots using the three-pass system: first pass (technical rejects), second pass (narrative selects), third pass (final edit — only images that earn their place in the story)
  • Build photo essay sequences with intentional pacing: establishing shots, detail shots, emotional peaks, resolution images
  • Apply the "no two images doing the same job" rule — every image in a final selection must serve a unique narrative function
  • Design photo layouts for editorial, social media, and exhibition contexts — understanding that the same image works differently at different sizes and in different sequences
  • Create shot lists and moodboards for upcoming shoots based on narrative gaps in existing coverage

Read the full file on GitHub · 249 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. 9d ago First seen · 249 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 564e07d09ab9

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alterlab-vcd-photo-editor is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 3,800 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.

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