unsplash

unsplash is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A skill for finding and downloading photos from Unsplash, a stock-photo website, while supplying the attribution the site requires.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for photos by keyword, fetch random images, and record a downloaded photo. It requires an Unsplash access key.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search manually, track downloads, and remember the required credit for each photo.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search for photos by keyword, fetch random images, and record a downloaded photo. It requires an Unsplash access key.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash
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 Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills --skill unsplash
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-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 unsplash

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 unsplash

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/unsplash.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00048 $0.01999
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00200

Measured 9d ago against content hash fa3c0495f016, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

unsplash scanned grade B 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (install.sh, scripts/lib/common.sh, scripts/random.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get install jq

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- `curl` - HTTP client
skills/unsplash/SKILL.md · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search and fetch high-quality photos from Unsplash with automatic attribution.

Quick Start

# Search for photos
./scripts/search.sh "sunset beach"

# Get random photos
./scripts/random.sh "nature" 3

# Track download (when user downloads)
./scripts/track.sh PHOTO_ID

Setup (Interactive)

IMPORTANT: If the script returns UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY not set, handle it interactively:

  1. Ask the user: "I need an Unsplash API key to search for photos. You can get a free key at https://unsplash.com/developers - do you have one?"

  2. Wait for the user to provide their key

  3. Save the key to .env in the project root:

    echo "UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY=<user_provided_key>" >> .env
    
  4. Re-run the original search/random command

The skill automatically loads .env from the project root on each run.

Operations

1. Search Photos

Find photos by keyword with optional filters.

./scripts/search.sh QUERY [PAGE] [PER_PAGE] [ORDER_BY] [ORIENTATION] [COLOR]

Parameters:

  • QUERY (required): Search keyword(s)
  • PAGE (optional, default: 1): Page number for pagination
  • PER_PAGE (optional, default: 10): Results per page (1-30)
  • ORDER_BY (optional, default: "relevant"): Sort order ("relevant" or "latest")
  • ORIENTATION (optional): Filter by orientation ("landscape", "portrait", "squarish")
  • COLOR (optional): Filter by color ("black_and_white", "black", "white", "yellow", "orange", "red", "purple", "magenta", "green", "teal", "blue")

Examples:

# Basic search
./scripts/search.sh "mountain landscape"

# Search with filters
./scripts/search.sh "sunset" 1 5 latest landscape

# Search by color
./scripts/search.sh "flower" 1 10 relevant portrait red

2. Random Photos

Get random photos with optional filtering.

./scripts/random.sh [QUERY] [COUNT] [ORIENTATION]

Parameters:

  • QUERY (optional): Topic/keyword to filter random photos
  • COUNT (optional, default: 1): Number of photos (1-30)
  • ORIENTATION (optional): Filter by orientation ("landscape", "portrait", "squarish")

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 304 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B fa3c0495f016

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unsplash is a skill published in the GitHub repository Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,999 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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