image

image is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,555 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An image-making and image-editing tool that turns written descriptions into pictures, including styled images and logos. It can use GPT Image 2, Gemini, or FLUX.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate illustrations, pictures, logos, and other visual assets, or to apply a different style to an existing image.
Why use it?
It removes the need to create every visual by hand or switch between separate image tools. It can also edit an existing image or match a reference style.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also runs codex exec. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Codex.

Part of the babel-fish plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate illustrations, pictures, logos, and other visual assets, or to apply a different style to an existing image.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image
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 ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit --skill image
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install babel-fish, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for image

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image/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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/image.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00063 $0.01555
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00777
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00155

Measured 12d ago against content hash d1c9360f7162, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

image scanned grade B with 2 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/generate_image_codex.sh), 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

-H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat ~/.claude/secrets/openrouter.json | python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)["api_key"])')" \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images/generations \
plugins/babel-fish/skills/image/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Generation — Babel Fish

Translating your thoughts into pictures. The Babel Fish handles all languages, including visual ones.

Boundaries

  • MAY: generate images, save files, call image APIs
  • MAY NOT: send images to external services or share outputs without explicit confirmation

Backends

Backend When to Use Key
GPT Image 2 via Codex CLI (gpt-image-2) Default — strong prompt adherence, text in images, no API key ChatGPT OAuth (codex login)
Gemini (gemini-3-pro-image-preview) Style transfer with reference images, multi-turn iteration, 4K GEMINI_API_KEY
FLUX via OpenRouter (black-forest-labs/flux.2-pro) Artistic, stylised work ~/.claude/secrets/openrouter.json

Backend selection (ask first)

Before generating, ask via AskUserQuestion which backend to use — list the three above as options with GPT Image 2 first (default). Skip the question only when:

  • The user already named a backend in their prompt ("use Gemini", "with FLUX", "via codex")
  • The request forces a specific one:
    • Reference images for style matching → Gemini (the codex path does not accept reference images)
    • True native transparent background → Gemini, or codex with explicit gpt-image-1.5
    • 4K+ output above 3840px per edge → Gemini (codex caps at 3840)

Announce the chosen backend in one line before running so the user has clarity.

Requires: codex-cli >= 0.124.0-alpha.2 for GPT Image 2. Install: npm install -g @openai/[email protected].

Phase 0 — Understand

Gather before generating. Ask if unclear:

  • Subject: what's in the image?
  • Style: photorealistic, illustration, logo, watercolor, etc.
  • Aspect ratio: 1:1 (default), 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:2
  • Resolution: 1K (default/fast), 2K (balanced), 4K (quality)
  • Purpose: blog post, social media, UI asset, logo
  • Output path: where to save (default: ./generated_image.jpg)

Phase 1 — Generate

GPT Image 2 via Codex (default)

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 158 lines · 63 tokens per session scan B d1c9360f7162

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit (19 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,555 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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