placeholder

placeholder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MauricioPerera/llms-txt-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (797 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of placeholder, MIT.

A way to create blank SVG images with chosen dimensions and colors through a placeholder-image web service. The generated image can be used as a temporary asset in a website or interface mockup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for temporary images in UI mockups, fixed-size colored blocks, responsive image testing, or prototype backgrounds.
Why use it?
Design prototypes often need image-shaped content before final images exist. A real image element with known dimensions helps test layout, responsive behavior, and accessibility text.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for temporary images in UI mockups, fixed-size colored blocks, responsive image testing, or prototype backgrounds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mauricioperera/llms-txt-skills/placeholder
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 MauricioPerera/llms-txt-skills --skill placeholder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MauricioPerera/llms-txt-skills

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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.00797
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00080

Measured 12d ago against content hash f427124e22c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

placeholder 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to placeholder — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/placeholder/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

placeholder

Build URLs for the placeholder-img API to embed mockup images in HTML, CSS, or design prototypes.

When to use

  • User asks for a placeholder image of size W×H.
  • User is prototyping a UI and needs a dummy <img> source.
  • User wants a colored block of a known aspect ratio as a background.

Do NOT use this skill for production images, photography, or when the user wants real content — this generates blank colored SVGs with the dimensions drawn as text.

When to prefer this over alternatives

  • Over CSS color blocks (<div style="background:#ccc;width:400px;height:300px">): when the mockup needs to behave like a real image — responsive aspect ratio, <img> semantics for alt text and lazy-loading, usable as <img srcset> or background-image interchangeably.
  • Over third-party services like placehold.co or via.placeholder.com: when the user wants a self-hosted source with no third-party dependency, guaranteed immutable cache (max-age=31536000, immutable), and a stable domain they control.
  • Over inline data:image/svg+xml URIs: when the mockup is referenced from more than one place, when HTML readability matters, or when the dimensions are dynamic and embedding SVG string-templates would clutter the code.

If none of the above apply — e.g., the user is already using a design system with built-in skeleton components, or a CSS block is genuinely sufficient — prefer the simpler option and do not call this API.

Base URL

https://img.automators.work

Build the URL

{base}/{width}x{height}[?bg={hex6}]
  • width, height: integers in px, each ≤ 4000.
  • bg (optional): 6-digit hex without #. Defaults to cccccc. Invalid values silently fall back to the default.

Examples

Intent URL
Generic 400×300 placeholder https://img.automators.work/400x300
Dark-blue banner https://img.automators.work/1200x400?bg=1e3a5f
Square brand tile https://img.automators.work/512x512?bg=f97316

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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 · 76 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A f427124e22c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

placeholder is a skill published in the GitHub repository MauricioPerera/llms-txt-skills (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 797 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to placeholder, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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