gimp-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.grok/skills/gimp-mcp/SKILL.md

gimp-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image-editing connector for GIMP, the free desktop image editor. It can work through GIMP itself or use Pillow, a Python image library, for offline operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open or create images, resize, crop, rotate, blur, add text, export, and resize multiple images at once.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform common image edits manually or write separate scripts for each file. It also supports batch processing and offline testing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

This is mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on gimp-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything gimp-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp/master/.grok/skills/gimp-mcp/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,812 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 $0.00119 $0.01812
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00906
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00181

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5d5d67220373, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gimp-mcp 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/doctor.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.grok/skills/gimp-mcp/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GIMP-MCP Operator Guide

One-command install (Grok plugin from GitHub):

grok plugin install mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp --trust

Then install the Python package (MCP stdio binary):

pip install "git+https://github.com/mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp.git"
# or from a clone:
# pip install -e ".[dev]"

Verify:

gimp-mcp version
gimp-mcp doctor
gimp-mcp demo
# if GIMP is installed:
gimp-mcp live-smoke

Repo: https://github.com/mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp
Local clone (maintainer): D:\ThanhTrucSolutions\mcp\GIMP-mcp

Modes

Mode Backend When
mock (default) Pillow CI, offline, fast demos
live gimp-console batch + Pillow assist GIMP 2.10 / 3.x installed
Env Meaning
GIMP_MCP_MODE mock or live
GIMP_MCP_BIN Path to gimp-console / gimp-console.exe
GIMP_MCP_WORKSPACE Temp workspace (default ~/.gimp-mcp/workspace)
GIMP_MCP_TIMEOUT Batch timeout seconds (default 120)

Live engines

GIMP Resize path
3.x python-fu-eval + GI (Gimp.file_load / scale / file_save) + --quit (~2s)
2.10 Script-Fu gimp-file-load / gimp-image-scale / file-png-save
Fallback Pillow LANCZOS if console fails

Filters (blur, flip, text, …) use Pillow assist on live for cross-version PDB stability.

Agent workflow

1. gimp_doctor          → confirm mode + console
2. gimp_seed_demo (mock) OR gimp_new_image / gimp_open
3. mutate (resize/crop/flip/rotate/blur/desaturate/invert/text)
4. gimp_export absolute path
5. optional gimp_batch_resize

Rules:

  1. Doctor first when switching hosts/modes.
  2. Keep image_id from open/new/seed for the same MCP/CLI process.
  3. Export to absolute paths the user can open.
  4. Prefer mock unless the user wants real GIMP console proof.
  5. gimp_seed_demo is mock-only.
  6. If MCP tools are missing, use CLI: gimp-mcp call ….

CLI

Command Purpose
gimp-mcp version Package + detected console
gimp-mcp doctor Backend health
gimp-mcp demo Mock e2e
gimp-mcp live-smoke Live new → resize → export
gimp-mcp process <image> Real-photo full pipeline (thumb, sharpen, watermark, gray, crop, batch)
gimp-mcp tools list Tool names
gimp-mcp serve Stdio MCP server
gimp-mcp call <tool> key=value One-shot tool

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 190 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 5d5d67220373

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gimp-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository mergeos-bounties/gimp-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,812 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.