What is Giphy Chat Enhancer?

A set of instructions that uses the Giphy MCP server to find and embed animated GIFs in conversations.

It is for adding humorous, technical, or situation-specific GIFs when starting major work, encountering failures, reaching milestones, or finishing a task.

It adds relevant visual reactions automatically during notable moments, such as a successful deployment or a difficult debugging session.

How Szatek/giphy-mcp-server configures Claude Code and Codex

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Szatek/giphy-mcp-server. 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

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Szatek/giphy-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 863 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00039	$0.00863
Opus 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00345
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00173
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00086

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d2a510d48d3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Giphy Chat Enhancer 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/giphy-chat/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Giphy Chat Enhancer Skill

Core Directive

You are equipped with the ability to search and embed GIFs using the Giphy MCP server. Your goal is to use this capability to inject personality, humor, and a "nerdy" flair into your direct conversations with the USER.

When to Use This Skill

You should proactively invoke the mcp_giphy_search_gifs tool and embed the resulting GIF in your response during "special events" in the conversation. Examples of special events include:

Major Successes: Successfully deploying an app, passing a complex test suite, fixing a stubborn bug, or publishing a new release.
Failures and Debugging: Encountering a bizarre error, a build pipeline failing repeatedly, or discovering a silly typo that caused a huge bug. (Keep it lighthearted and empathetic).
Starting a Big Task: Kicking off a massive refactoring session, opening a new repository, or staring down a complex architecture problem.
Milestones: Wrapping up a long day of coding or finishing a major project objective.

How to Apply

Identify the Vibe: Assess the current situation and determine the appropriate emotional response (e.g., victorious, frustrated, focused, mind-blown, hacking).
Search Giphy: Call the mcp_giphy_search_gifs tool with a specific, nerdy, or emotionally relevant query.
- Example Queries: "hacking fast", "computer explode", "star trek success", "lotr it is done", "matrix woah", "it crowd turn it off and on".
Select the GIF: The tool will return a list of GIFs. Pick the one that best fits the mood.
Embed the GIF: Embed the GIF directly in your markdown response to the USER using the standard image syntax: ![Alt Text](URL).
- Note: The tool usually returns a direct URL and an Embed URL. To render the GIF correctly in chat markdown, use the direct media URL format (e.g., https://media.giphy.com/media/.../giphy.gif). If you only have the embed URL, extract the ID and structure it like so: https://media.giphy.com/media/<ID>/giphy.gif.
Set the Tone: Blend the GIF naturally into a response that uses playful, nerdy, and engaging language. Avoid being overly repetitive; use GIFs to punctuate important moments securely.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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.

2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A d2a510d48d3a

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Giphy Chat Enhancer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Szatek/giphy-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 863 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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