images-media

images-media is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning, choosing, and preparing images, icons, and other media for websites. It covers visual purpose, accessibility text, file formats, compression, and responsive images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning website imagery, hero sections, galleries, icons, SVG graphics, image loading, or alt text. It also helps decide between stock photos and custom visuals.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unnecessary images from slowing pages down or making them harder to understand. It also provides a way to keep visuals consistent with the site's message and brand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when planning website imagery, hero sections, galleries, icons, SVG graphics, image loading, or alt text. It also helps decide between stock photos and custom visuals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills/images-media
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 flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills --skill images-media
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,518 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 $0.00031 $0.01518
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00759
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3b7ae0beb3c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

images-media 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 12d 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-src/images-media/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Images and Media

Every image must serve a purpose — convey information, evoke emotion, provide orientation, or strengthen the brand. Images without purpose are dead weight.

Scope

Use this skill when you:

  • Develop an image strategy for a website
  • Design hero sections or image galleries
  • Optimize images technically (formats, compression, srcset)
  • Use icons and SVGs or build an icon system
  • Write or review alt texts
  • Make decisions between stock photos and custom imagery

Principles

1. Images Are Content, Not Decoration

Every image serves a purpose. Images without purpose are dead weight and slow down the page.

2. Quality Over Quantity

A few high-quality, authentic images are more impactful than many generic stock photos.

3. Image Strategy Before Image Selection

Define the visual concept first (style, mood, color palette), then select images.

4. Performance Is Non-Negotiable

Images account for 50-70% of page weight. Optimization delivers the greatest performance gains.

5. Authenticity Over Perfection

Real people in real situations are more convincing than staged stock photo scenes.

Rules

DO: Develop an Image Strategy

  • DEFINE a visual concept before selecting images.
  • ESTABLISH target audience, desired emotion, and brand image as selection criteria.
  • SELECT images with a consistent style (color palette, cropping, lighting).
  • ENSURE continuity: maintain a consistent visual language across the entire website.

DO: Use Images Functionally

Every image serves at least one of these four functions:

  • Layout element: Header images, backgrounds, patterns for mood.
  • Orientation element: Anchors for new sections, breaking up text-heavy areas.
  • Content element: Visualization of complex topics, product photos.
  • Emotional element: Brand building, mood creation, recognition.

DO: Show People

  • USE authentic people in real situations.
  • AVOID staged, obviously posed scenes.
  • SHOW diversity in age, gender, and ethnicity where contextually appropriate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 12d ago First seen · 162 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 3b7ae0beb3c6

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images-media is a skill published in the GitHub repository flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,518 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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