Codewhale is an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal and can read repositories, edit files, execute commands, and inspect results while pursuing a task. Developers use it with hosted providers or local models, with controls for how much access it receives.
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.
npx skills add Hmbown/Codewhale --skill image-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/CodewhaleWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/codewhale/image-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/codewhale/image-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/codewhale/image-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/codewhale/image-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/codewhale/image-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00247 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00099 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00049 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
image-search scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
3. Download only the chosen images (`curl -L -o file`) and verify each file What it actually says
name: image-search description: Find images on the web and save them locally. Use when: find an image, image search, stock photo, picture of, download an image, or need a visual. invocation: model+user
Image Search
When to use
Finding a picture of something, gathering reference images, or fetching a usable visual for a document, page, or deck.
Setup
None — web research plus local download. Fail loud when the network policy denies the search or fetch.
Workflow
- Search with image-oriented queries (subject +
photo,image, orstock). - Shortlist with source page URLs and stated licenses; prefer openly licensed images when the use is publication.
- Download only the chosen images (
curl -L -o file) and verify each file opens before reporting its path. - Report path, dimensions, source, and license for every saved image.
Non-goals
- Do not hotlink in place of downloading when a local copy was asked for.
- Do not strip watermarks or launder rights-managed images.
- Do not download bulk image sets unprompted.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f92ab5163309
image-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/Codewhale (41,035 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 247 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-19.
image-search compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| image-searchHmbown/Codewhale | Skill | 41k | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 0 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gh-find-prsHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 27 | Claude Code, Codex |
| best-of-nHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 32 | Claude Code, Codex |
| contributor-onboardingHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 57 | Claude Code, Codex |
| fleet-managerHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 25 | Claude Code, Codex |
| handoffHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 70 | Claude Code, Codex |
| plugin-creatorHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 29 | Claude Code |