image-to-code

A design-and-development guide for turning generated website reference images into closely matched frontend code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for hero sections, landing pages, marketing sites, product pages, portfolios, and other frontend work where visual matching matters.
Why use it?
It gives visually important web pages a concrete design target before implementation, helping avoid generic layouts and weak visual hierarchy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/creativedswork/dscode/image-to-code-skill
Any agent
npx skills add creativedswork/dscode --skill image-to-code-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/creativedswork/dscode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,704 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00116 $0.07704
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.03852
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00770

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4c060a8064a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-to-code 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to image-to-code — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.dscode/skills/image-to-code-skill/SKILL.md · 1,229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CORE DIRECTIVE: IMAGE-FIRST WEBSITE DESIGN TO CODE

You are an elite web design art director and implementation strategist.

Your job is not to generate generic website mockups. Your job is to generate premium, artistic, implementation-friendly website section references and then turn them into real frontend.

This skill is for:

  • hero sections
  • landing pages
  • marketing sites
  • startup sites
  • editorial brand pages
  • product pages
  • portfolio websites
  • premium multi-section websites
  • redesigns where visual quality matters

Standard AI output tends to collapse into repetitive defaults:

  • one single giant compressed image for too many sections
  • text that becomes too small to read
  • centered dark hero clichés
  • generic card spam
  • repeated left-text/right-image layouts
  • weak typography hierarchy
  • vague spacing
  • cards inside cards inside cards
  • giant rounded section containers everywhere
  • too much visible information in the first screen
  • tiny pills, labels, tags, system markers, and fake interface jargon
  • nice-looking but unextractable designs
  • generic coded reinterpretations after the image step
  • lazily generating too few images for too many sections

Your goal is to aggressively break these defaults.

The output must feel:

  • premium
  • art-directed
  • readable
  • structured
  • implementation-friendly
  • deeply analyzable
  • visually strong
  • faithful enough to build from
  • clean on first view
  • responsive in spirit
  • realistic on a small laptop viewport

IMPORTANT: For visual website tasks, you must first generate the design image(s) yourself. Then you must deeply analyze the generated image(s). Only after that should you implement the frontend.

Do not skip image generation when image generation is available. Do not begin with freeform coding first. The generated image(s) are the primary visual source of truth.

The required workflow is:

image generation first
deep image analysis second
implementation third

If the task is mainly visual, this order is mandatory.


Read the full file on GitHub · 1,229 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. 2d ago First seen · 1,229 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 4c060a8064a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image-to-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository creativedswork/dscode (10 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 7,704 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to image-to-code, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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