image-well

image-well is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tdimino/claude-code-minoan. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line image search and download tool that queries 15 image services, including museums, public collections, stock sites, and image libraries. Several sources work without an API key, and results can include licensing information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by subject, apply presets such as museum or military searches, download images with metadata, check available sources, or produce JSON and browser previews.
Why use it?
It avoids searching each image service separately and makes it easier to find usable images from different collections in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py search "sunset" --format download --output ./images/.

Good fit Use it to search by subject, apply presets such as museum or military searches, download images with metadata, check available sources, or produce JSON and browser previews.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/image-well

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,458 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 52
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00110 $0.01458
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00729
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00146

Measured 10d ago against content hash 687b3bdc56c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-well 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 19 executable files (scripts/_well_utils.py, scripts/sources/__init__.py, scripts/sources/artic.py, …), 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.

skills/design-media/image-well/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image Well

Search and download images from 15 sources through a single CLI. Seven sources work with zero API keys (Openverse, Wikimedia, Met Museum, Cleveland Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Getty Museum, NASA). Additional sources activate when keys are set.

Quick Start

# Search across all no-key sources
uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py search "ancient Minoan fresco"

# Use a preset for domain-specific searches
uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py search "F-35 fighter jet" --preset military

# Download results with metadata sidecars
uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py search "sunset" --format download --output ./images/

# Check which sources are available
uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py sources

# Visual HTML preview — opens in browser, no context pollution
uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py search "bronze statue" --format html

# Output as JSON for piping
uv run ~/.claude/skills/image-well/scripts/well.py search "cat" --format json

Sources

Tier Source Key Required License
1 Openverse (800M+) No CC variants
1 Wikimedia Commons No CC variants
1 Met Museum (375k) No CC0
1 Cleveland Museum (37k) No CC0
1 Art Inst. Chicago (60k+) No Public Domain
1 Getty Museum (Open Content) No CC0
1 NASA (140k) No Public Domain
2 Pexels PEXELS_API_KEY Pexels License
2 Pixabay PIXABAY_API_KEY Pixabay License
2 Rijksmuseum (700k) RIJKSMUSEUM_API_KEY CC0
2 Unsplash UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY Unsplash License
3 Smithsonian No CC0
3 Europeana (50M+) EUROPEANA_API_KEY Mixed
3 Iconify (275k icons) No Various
3 Pollinations AI No Free Use (AI gen)

Add Tier 2 keys to ~/.config/env/secrets.env for expanded coverage.

Source notes:

  • Cleveland downloads the ~3400px print JPEG; the ~900px web derivative is the thumbnail. The archival TIFFs are never fetched.
  • Art Institute of Chicago images are public domain (PD), not formally CC0 — --license cc0 accepts them. Downloads use AIC's preferred 843px IIIF size and are serialized (1/s) per their API etiquette.
  • Getty rides the collection website's undocumented JSON search API (open_content=true filter) — the only keyword-search surface Getty exposes. Every emitted row is gated on the CC0 URI in its IIIF manifest license; downloads at 1200px IIIF. Superb Greek/Roman/Etruscan; thin on Egypt/Near East.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 10d ago First seen · 124 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 687b3bdc56c5

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image-well is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,458 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 2026-08-30.

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