agentic-commerce-generate-alt-text

agentic-commerce-generate-alt-text is a skill for Claude Code from commerce-agentic/agentic-commerce-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that creates descriptive alternative text for Shopify product images. Alternative text is written text that explains an image to screen readers and other software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan Shopify products, generate image descriptions from the pictures and product details, and optionally save them to the store.
Why use it?
It fills missing or generic image descriptions so people and software can understand what each product image shows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the agentic-commerce-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan Shopify products, generate image descriptions from the pictures and product details, and optionally save them to the store.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/commerce-agentic/agentic-commerce-skills/agentic-commerce-generate-alt-text
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-commerce-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 959 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 $0.00044 $0.00959
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7416f4513dce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-commerce-generate-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 10d 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/catalog-fix/agentic-commerce-generate-alt-text/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Most Shopify catalogs have <20% alt-text coverage. AI shopping agents that parse listings via vision-language models systematically deprioritize products with missing or generic alt text ("image-1.jpg", "untitled").

This skill scans every image without descriptive alt text, sends the image + product context (title, vendor, type) to Claude (or any vision-capable model), and writes back a concise, accurate alt-text describing the product as seen.

Prerequisites

  • Authenticated Shopify CLI session
  • API scopes: read_products, write_products, read_files, write_files
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env var set (or equivalent for chosen model)

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Default Description
store string yes Store domain
product_ids array no Specific products to process. If omitted, processes all products with image alt-coverage < 0.50
dry_run bool no true Preview generated alt text without persisting
max_length integer no 125 Max characters per alt text (HTML/SEO convention)
skip_existing bool no true Skip images that already have descriptive alt text (length >= 5)
model string no claude-sonnet-4-6 Vision-language model to use

Workflow Steps

  1. Identify target images: query products via agentic-commerce-audit-images-alt. Collect image URLs + product context.

  2. For each image needing alt text:

    • Fetch the image bytes
    • Send to the chosen vision model with prompt:
      Generate a concise alt text (under {max_length} chars) for this product image.
      Product title: {title}
      Vendor: {vendor}
      Product type: {productType}
      
      Rules:
      - Describe what is visually present in the image
      - Include color, material, perspective (front/side/lifestyle) when visible
      - Do not invent specs that are not visible
      - No marketing language; factual description only
      
    • Capture the response

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 10d ago First seen · 90 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 7416f4513dce

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agentic-commerce-generate-alt-text is a skill published in the GitHub repository commerce-agentic/agentic-commerce-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 959 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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