xai-grok-imagine-image

xai-grok-imagine-image is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (8,951 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using xAI’s Grok Imagine API to create or edit still images, including workflows that use reference images. It also covers sending requests, retrieving results, and reviewing generated media.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating images from descriptions, editing existing images, combining references, and managing the resulting files in production.
Why use it?
It helps developers connect image generation and editing to an application without confusing the image API with xAI’s separate video service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It is for generating images from descriptions, editing existing images, combining references, and managing the resulting files in production.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/xai-grok-imagine-image
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 calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill xai-grok-imagine-image
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,951 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 24
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 25
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 50
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 187
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 344
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.08951
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.04476
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01790
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00895

Measured 9d ago against content hash d17047e69a34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xai-grok-imagine-image scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error \
skills/providers/image-generation/xai-grok-imagine-image/SKILL.md · 700 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 700 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

xAI Grok Imagine Image

Operate xAI's first-party image API as a production system, not as a prompt toy. Keep the image workflow separate from Grok Imagine video: image generation and editing are synchronous in the direct REST API, while video has a different asynchronous request/poll contract.

All volatile facts were verified against first-party xAI documentation on 2026-07-09. Recheck the model endpoint, console, pricing, rate limits, release notes, and legal terms before deployment.

Evidence vocabulary

  • Documented: stated in current xAI API documentation, model pages, or terms.
  • Provider claim: qualitative language from xAI product or launch material; test it independently.
  • Production heuristic: an operational recommendation derived from the contract and common media practice, not an xAI guarantee.
  • Unknown: not established by the reviewed first-party sources. Do not fill the gap with assumptions.

Lock the interface and model

Use only the documented inference base and routes:

POST https://api.x.ai/v1/images/generations
POST https://api.x.ai/v1/images/edits
Authorization: Bearer {XAI_API_KEY}
Content-Type: application/json

Create a team-scoped key with the minimum endpoint/model ACLs needed. Load it from a secret manager or XAI_API_KEY; never put it in source, logs, prompts, asset metadata, browser code, or URLs.

Current image models

Model Current aliases 1K output 2K output Input image Use
grok-imagine-image-quality grok-imagine-image-quality-20260403, grok-imagine-image-quality-latest; retired grok-imagine-image-pro redirects here $0.05 $0.07 $0.01 each Higher-quality production candidate; stronger realism/text/control are provider claims
grok-imagine-image grok-imagine-image-2026-03-02 $0.02 $0.02 $0.002 each Lower-cost candidate and high-volume exploration

These prices are USD and were displayed by xAI on 2026-07-09. Pricing is per generated output plus each image input. Text prompt length is not separately billed on these image model pages. Confirm the invoice and current model page.

Read the full file on GitHub · 700 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 700 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A d17047e69a34

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xai-grok-imagine-image is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 8,951 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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