codex-imagegen

codex-imagegen is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hyperb1iss/hyperskills. It costs 82 tokens per session (3,019 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for asking Codex to generate or edit raster images, such as illustrations, photos, or mockups, through its built-in image-generation capability.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create new images, edit existing images, make transparent cutouts, and produce multiple visual variants.
Why use it?
It explains which image-generation route to use and how to handle inputs, transparency, saved files, and verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hyperskills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

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/hyperb1iss/hyperskills/codex-imagegen
Any agent
npx skills add hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill codex-imagegen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hyperb1iss/hyperskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hyperskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,019 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00082 $0.03019
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01510
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00302

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3795ae2343e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-imagegen 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 4d 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/codex-imagegen/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Image Generation

Delegate raster image generation and editing to Codex's built-in $imagegen capability, then return a verified workspace artifact to the leader harness.

Core insight: instrument Codex, not the desktop window. An authenticated codex exec session can use built-in image generation headlessly. The desktop app does not need to be open, GUI automation adds no useful capability, and the shared filesystem is the artifact handoff.

As of Jul 2026, this path is verified with codex-cli 0.144.6. CLI and tool availability are volatile; the installed CLI and a live invocation outrank this snapshot.

Select the Execution Route

Host state Route
Codex with a callable built-in image-generation tool Invoke $imagegen directly. Never launch a child Codex from Codex.
Claude Code, Pi, Cursor, or another shell-capable harness with codex installed Use codex exec. This is the default delegation path.
The leader already has Codex MCP tools named codex and codex-reply Use MCP when iterative art direction benefits from a persistent thread.
No native tool, Codex CLI, or configured Codex MCP server Stop with the missing prerequisite and the exact error. Do not substitute another generator.

Run codex --version before the first delegated call. Respect the user's Codex configuration; never set --model, -m, or -c model=. Authentication, entitlements, workspace policy, and image-generation availability belong to the installed Codex environment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 4d ago First seen · 265 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 3795ae2343e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-imagegen is a skill published in the GitHub repository hyperb1iss/hyperskills (31 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 3,019 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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