file-upload-media-patterns

file-upload-media-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (5,483 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building systems where users upload files and the system creates or changes media such as images, video, or audio. It covers direct uploads to storage, resumable uploads, security checks, and background processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review upload flows, including cloud-storage uploads, interrupted large-file uploads, file-type and virus checks, quarantine, thumbnails, transcoding, and upload-related webhooks.
Why use it?
It helps prevent large files from overloading the application server, unsafe files from entering storage, and slow thumbnail or transcoding work from blocking user requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design or review upload flows, including cloud-storage uploads, interrupted large-file uploads, file-type and virus checks, quarantine, thumbnails, transcoding, and upload-related webhooks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills/file-upload-media-patterns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills --skill file-upload-media-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,483 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 $0.00103 $0.05483
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02742
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00548

Measured 12d ago against content hash a4609cf2c4e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-upload-media-patterns 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/file-upload-media-patterns/SKILL.md · 494 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 494 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File Upload and Media Processing Patterns

Overview

File upload systems fail silently when storage is bypassed through the API server, when uploads lack size limits, when MIME types are trusted from the client, or when media processing blocks the request thread.

When to use: Designing direct-to-storage upload flows; reviewing upload endpoints for security gaps; evaluating media processing pipelines; assessing image optimization strategies; auditing storage abstraction layers.

Quick Reference

Pattern Core Idea Primary Red Flag
Presigned URL / Direct-to-Storage Client uploads directly to S3/GCS/Azure via short-lived URL; API never handles bytes Streaming large files through the API server; no expiry on upload URLs
Resumable Uploads (tus / S3 Multipart) Large uploads broken into chunks; interrupted uploads resume from last chunk Single-shot uploads of large files with no resume capability
Upload Security Pipeline Validate MIME magic bytes, virus scan in quarantine bucket before promoting Trusting Content-Type header; skipping ClamAV scan; no quarantine stage
Async Media Processing Thumbnails/transcoding enqueued as jobs; webhook fires on completion Blocking the HTTP response while FFmpeg runs; sync thumbnail generation
Image Optimization Convert to WebP/AVIF at ingest; generate responsive srcset; CDN transforms Serving raw JPEG/PNG; no responsive variants; no CDN transform layer
Storage Abstraction Provider-agnostic interface wraps S3/GCS/Azure/local; swap without code change Hardcoded s3.PutObject calls scattered through business logic
Content-Addressable Storage SHA-256 hash is the key; identical files stored once; dedup is automatic UUID-named files; duplicate content stored multiple times
Upload Anti-Patterns base64 in JSON, no size limits, sync processing, storing blobs in DB Any of these present in production upload code

Patterns in Detail

Read the full file on GitHub · 494 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 · 494 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A a4609cf2c4e9

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file-upload-media-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 5,483 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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