external-tools

Instructions for handing image assets from Limner to desktop editors such as GIMP, Affinity, Inkscape, or Krita.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route assets for pixel retouching, masking, vector-path work, multi-page or CMYK print preparation, or hand-painted finishing.
Why use it?
It identifies when manual editing, vector cleanup, print preparation, or painting is needed and guides the file-format handoff.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/vinsonconsulting/limner/external-tools
Any agent
npx skills add vinsonconsulting/limner --skill external-tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinsonconsulting/limner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 931 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 $0.00062 $0.00931
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00093

Measured 2d ago against content hash f8c5f0c9f48b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-tools 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 2d 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.

packages/limner-agent/skills/external-tools/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

External editors & handoff

Limner is an independent third-party project built on Anthropic's CMA platform; it is not an Anthropic or Claude product.

Limner generates and composes assets, then hands off to a desktop editor when a task needs manual work it does not perform itself. Use this skill to route a finished or in-progress asset to the right editor and export it in the format that editor reads best.

When to hand off

Hand off once Limner has taken the asset as far as generation and composition can. Typical triggers:

  • Pixel-level retouching, masking, or compositing a generated raster.
  • Authoring or cleaning up vector paths beyond what Recraft emits.
  • Multi-page or CMYK print layout and prepress.
  • Hand-painting or natural-media work on top of a generation.

Procedure

  1. Name the job. Decide which of the needs above the task fits; that points to the editor more reliably than preference does.
  2. Pick the target from the reference table below: match the job to the editor's "Best for" entry, and confirm it reads the format you plan to export.
  3. Export from Limner in that editor's preferred input format. Match the container to the work: SVG for vector editors, a layered PSD or TIFF for raster compositing, PDF for print prep. The file-types skill covers the trade-offs.
  4. Hand the exported asset to the user with the editor named, so they can open and continue it locally. Limner does not drive the desktop editor itself.

Editor reference

The table below is generated from the Limner guidance core (@limner/core), the same source the MCP limner://reference/external-tools resource serves, so this skill and that resource cannot drift. Do not edit the generated region by hand; run pnpm --filter @limner/limner-agent gen:skills instead.

External editors & handoff targets

Limner is an independent third-party project built on Anthropic's CMA platform; it is not an Anthropic or Claude product.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A f8c5f0c9f48b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

external-tools is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinsonconsulting/limner (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 931 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.