auto-tone

auto-tone is a skill for Claude Code from danielrosehill/Claude-Image-Production-Plugin. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,244 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image-editing skill that automatically adjusts brightness and contrast in flat, dark, washed-out, or unevenly exposed images.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps correct indoor and night photos, faded scans, and gallery images before sharpening or enlarging them.
Why use it?
It removes the need to adjust image curves manually and can make batches of images look more consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the image-production plugin — 29 skills, 19 commands shipped together

Good fit It helps correct indoor and night photos, faded scans, and gallery images before sharpening or enlarging them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielrosehill/claude-image-production-plugin/auto-tone
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 danielrosehill/Claude-Image-Production-Plugin --skill auto-tone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielrosehill/Claude-Image-Production-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install image-production, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 19 commands.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,244 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00086 $0.01244
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00124

Measured 9d ago against content hash 10dd983d5de2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-tone 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/auto-tone/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auto Tone

Fix flat or under/over-exposed images without manual curves work. Three modes:

  • level (default) — -auto-level on the luminance channel. Stretches the histogram to [0,1] without touching colour balance. Safe, reversible-feeling.
  • gamma-auto-gamma. Drives the image's mean brightness toward 50% grey. Lifts dark scans, tames blown-out daylight.
  • punch-normalize (1% black + 1% white clip) followed by -auto-gamma. Stronger; the "press the button" preset for batch gallery prep.

When to use

  • Underexposed indoor / night phone shots.
  • Faded scans of old prints.
  • Bulk normalisation of a gallery shot under varying light.
  • Pre-step before sharpening or upscaling — auto-tone first so the next stage isn't operating on a flat histogram.

Do not use this skill when:

  • Source is a RAW file — fix tone in darktable-cli where you have full bit depth.
  • Image is intentionally low-key (silhouettes, night scenes with crushed shadows) or high-key (snow, fashion editorials). Auto-gamma flattens the look.
  • The histogram is already well-distributed (a quick magick identify -format "%[fx:standard_deviation]" "$IN" ≥ 0.22 → likely already toned; auto-level becomes a no-op or worse).

Inputs

  1. Input — file or directory. Required.
  2. Modelevel (default) | gamma | punch.
  3. Recursive--recursive for directory descent.
  4. Output — default in-place suffix _tone. --output-dir <path> to write into a sibling folder. --overwrite to replace.
  5. Strength0.0 to 1.0 (default 1.0). Blends corrected image with original via -compose blend.
  6. Preserve hue — default on. Operate on the luminance channel only (HSL L), so colour relationships aren't shifted. --per-channel to apply auto-level independently to R/G/B (acts as combined tone + white-balance — usually you want auto-white-balance for that instead).
  7. Clip (mode=punch) — black/white clip percent. Default 1. --clip 0.5 for gentler, --clip 2 for aggressive contrast.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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 · 98 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 10dd983d5de2

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auto-tone is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielrosehill/Claude-Image-Production-Plugin (16 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,244 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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