image-loading

image-loading is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image-loading system for Swift and SwiftUI, Apple's tools for building apps. It downloads images, keeps copies in memory and on disk, avoids repeating the same request, and provides a view that can replace SwiftUI's built-in AsyncImage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add image caching, lazy loading, image resizing, thumbnail creation, or image prefetching to an iOS or macOS app.
Why use it?
It prevents apps from downloading the same image repeatedly and helps manage image loading and storage more efficiently. It also provides a consistent place to process and resize images.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

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/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/image-loading
Any agent
npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill image-loading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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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 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,641 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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.01641
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4c0f3aa16a71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-loading 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 6d 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/generators/image-loading/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Loading Generator

Generate a production image loading pipeline with NSCache memory cache, LRU disk cache, request deduplication, image processing, and a drop-in CachedAsyncImage SwiftUI view.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks to "add image caching" or "cache images"
  • Wants to "replace AsyncImage" or fix "AsyncImage has no cache"
  • Mentions "image loading pipeline" or "lazy image loading"
  • Asks about "image download" or "image prefetching"
  • Wants "thumbnail generation" or "image resizing"

Pre-Generation Checks

1. Project Context Detection

  • Check Swift version (requires Swift 5.9+)
  • Check deployment target (iOS 16+ / macOS 13+)
  • Check for @Observable support (iOS 17+ / macOS 14+)
  • Identify source file locations

2. Conflict Detection

Search for existing image loading:

Glob: **/*ImageCache*.swift, **/*ImageLoader*.swift, **/*ImagePipeline*.swift
Grep: "AsyncImage" or "UIImage" or "NSImage" or "ImageCache"

If third-party library found (Kingfisher, SDWebImage, Nuke):

  • Ask if user wants to replace or keep it
  • If keeping, don't generate — advise on best practices instead

3. Platform Detection

Determine if generating for iOS (UIImage) or macOS (NSImage) or both (cross-platform typealias).

Configuration Questions

Ask user via AskUserQuestion:

  1. Cache sizes?

    • Small (50 MB memory / 100 MB disk)
    • Medium (100 MB memory / 250 MB disk) — recommended
    • Large (200 MB memory / 500 MB disk)
  2. Image processing?

    • Resize to fit (downscale large images to save memory)
    • Thumbnail generation (create small thumbnails for lists)
    • None (cache original images only)
  3. Additional features? (multi-select)

    • Prefetching for collections (preload images for visible rows + buffer)
    • Placeholder and error images
    • Progress indicator during download
  4. Platform?

    • iOS only
    • macOS only
    • Cross-platform (iOS + macOS)

Generation Process

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 212 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 4c0f3aa16a71

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image-loading is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (700 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,641 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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