create-svg-image

create-svg-image is a skill for Claude Code from tomzx/agents. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for hand-writing SVG files that contain diagrams, images, or visualizations. SVG is a text-based image format that stays sharp at different sizes and works in browsers and many document tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create architecture diagrams, process diagrams, data visuals, or other branded figures for READMEs, documentation, slides, or issue comments.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to lay out and check visuals instead of drawing them without regard to their target size or renderer. It also accounts for the style and rendering limits of the destination.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to create architecture diagrams, process diagrams, data visuals, or other branded figures for READMEs, documentation, slides, or issue comments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/create-svg-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 tomzx/agents --skill create-svg-image
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,862 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 $0.00092 $0.01862
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00745
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00186

Measured 22d ago against content hash aecffdc86c02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-svg-image 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 22d 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/create-svg-image/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create SVG Image

Produces hand-authored SVG diagrams and visualizations that look intentional at any size and render correctly across browsers and non-browser renderers (resvg, librsvg, chat previews). The aesthetic rules are in references/svg-style-guide.md; this skill supplies the workflow, the geometry math, and the validation loop.

Prerequisites

  • A subject to visualize: a user description, or source material (code, schema, process notes, data).
  • The target medium (README, docs page, slide, issue comment, standalone file), since it fixes width, aspect ratio, and renderer limits.
  • references/svg-style-guide.md, read in step 2.
  • Optional tools, each with a graceful fallback: xmllint or npx svglint for parse checks, rsvg-convert or a browser for render checks.

Steps

1. Gather context

Ask for or infer:

  • What the visualization should show, and the one message a viewer should take away.
  • The audience, target medium, and approximate display width.
  • Any brand palette or sibling diagrams the output must match.
  • Whether a dark mode variant is needed (style guide, Dark mode section).

2. Load the style guide and choose the tool

  • Read references/svg-style-guide.md and adopt its tokens: color table, type scale, stroke ladder, corner radii, spacing grid.
  • Start from the starter template in the guide and replace its content.
  • When the user did not ask for SVG specifically, check whether a Mermaid type covers the need: if yes, prefer create-mermaid-visualization; hand-author SVG when precise layout, branding, or a non-diagram figure is required.

3. Plan the layout before writing XML

Compute the geometry first; fixing layout after the fact is the main source of ugly SVG.

  • Pick display width from content: list 400px, flowchart 600-700px, architecture 700-800px.
  • Set viewBox to content bounds plus 24px margins, snapped to the 4px grid.
  • Estimate every label's width as 0.6 × font-size × characters, then size boxes: width = longest label + 32px, height = 3 × font-size for one line plus 1.5 × font-size per extra line.
  • Compute baselines: label baseline = box center y + 0.35 × font-size; title baseline = top padding + 0.75 × font-size, centered on the content, not the canvas.
  • Route connectors: at least 16px clear of nodes and 8px from each other, orthogonal or curved per the guide, never mixed.
  • If any two elements would overlap, move them now, not after rendering.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 22d ago Changed · -2 lines aecffdc86c02
  2. 25d ago Changed 73f3a928e859
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A f1dbc342a13e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-svg-image is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,862 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-15.

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