gimp

gimp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dmmdea/offload-harness. It costs 0 tokens per session (719 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide and automation skill for editing images with GIMP 3.2, a free image-editing application. It covers tasks such as resizing, cropping, compositing, retouching, text, background removal, and exporting images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate image edits, create composite graphics, prepare assets, batch-convert files, and export finished images.
Why use it?
It helps a coding agent operate GIMP through its console, Python, or scripting interfaces instead of relying only on manual editing. The included procedures also address command-line and verification details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to automate image edits, create composite graphics, prepare assets, batch-convert files, and export finished images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dmmdea/offload-harness/gimp
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 dmmdea/offload-harness --skill gimp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmmdea/offload-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 719 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 $0.00000 $0.00719
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00288
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7580d02b85bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gimp 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 1mo 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.

skill/gimp/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

GIMP 3.2 (autonomous driving)

This file only routes. Every fact, command line, procedure name and trap lives in reference/ (not auto-loaded — open the file the task needs). Facts there are tagged [measured]/[doc]/[community]/[inferred]; anything untagged is a bug in the doc.

Start here: reference/README.md — the index plus the ten rules (memorize those; they cover 90 % of what goes wrong: no default batch interpreter, --quit is mandatory, the plug-in process outlives gimp-console, alpha before resize, exact font names, verify by file).

Task Open
Which box has GIMP, paths, embedded Python, profile/log/temp dirs, verifier tools reference/01-hosts-install.md
Console vs GUI vs batch vs MCP, one-GIMP-per-machine, MCP start / tool list / stop, teardown reference/02-connection-modes.md
Exact gimp-console-3.2.exe command lines, flags, exit codes, quoting, stdin batch reference/03-cli-batch.md
Writing Python against gi.repository.Gimp (classes, methods, enums, PDB calls, GEGL filters) reference/04-api-reference.md
Designer words → operations (resize, crop, canvas, text, outline, shadow, remove BG, composite, thumbnail sizes) reference/05-editing-playbook.md
Export formats that actually work here, per-format args, how to verify the file reference/06-export-formats.md
Script-Fu 3, Python plug-in registration, the gimp-mcp plug-in as a model reference/07-scripting-scriptfu-python-plugins.md
Something returned None/False/NULL, hung, or wrote the wrong file reference/08-failure-modes.md
Exact PDB signatures on this build (902 procs), enums, GEGL op properties, fonts, export matrix reference/live-dump-2026-09-01.json (grep it; do not load whole)

Working rules that are not GIMP facts: console mode only unless a human wants to watch; kill the whole GIMP process tree when done (never leave a GIMP window or plug-in process); temp scripts go in the session scratchpad and are deleted; outputs are verified with a second tool (ffprobe / Pillow / pdfinfo), never by return code alone.

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. 1mo ago Changed 7580d02b85bc
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9231f4e7bf64

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gimp is a skill published in the GitHub repository dmmdea/offload-harness (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 719 tokens. 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 2026-09-05.

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