file-types

file-types is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinsonconsulting/limner. It costs 48 tokens per session (569 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide to PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, SVG, TIFF, and PDF files, including their compression, transparency, colors, and common uses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding which image or document format to generate or convert to.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a format that balances image quality, file size, transparency, and compatibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when deciding which image or document format to generate or convert to.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinsonconsulting/limner/file-types
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 vinsonconsulting/limner --skill file-types
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinsonconsulting/limner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 569 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 $0.00048 $0.00569
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00057

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6c95a281dead, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-types 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 1mo 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/file-types/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File types

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

A quick reference for the image and document formats Limner reads and writes. Use it when deciding which format to generate or convert to.

The matrix below is generated from the Limner guidance core (@limner/core), the same source the MCP limner://reference/file-types 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.

Image & document file types

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

Choosing an output format trades fidelity against size, transparency, and downstream tooling. This matrix covers the raster, vector, and document formats Limner handles.

Format Compression Alpha Color model Typical use
PNG Lossless Yes RGB / RGBA UI assets, screenshots, line art (crisp edges or transparency)
JPEG Lossy No RGB / CMYK Photographs where small size beats pixel-exactness
WebP Lossy or lossless Yes RGB / RGBA Web delivery (smaller than PNG/JPEG at similar quality)
AVIF Lossy or lossless Yes RGB / RGBA Next-gen web delivery (best compression, newer decoder support)
SVG Lossless (vector) Yes RGB Icons, logos, diagrams (resolution-independent markup)
TIFF Lossless or lossy Yes RGB / CMYK / grayscale Print and archival masters; high bit-depth, CMYK separations
PDF Mixed (container) Yes RGB / CMYK / grayscale Multi-page, print-ready output: vector + raster + text
  • Lossless (PNG, SVG, TIFF) preserves every pixel or path; lossy (JPEG) discards detail for size.
  • Alpha/transparency is available everywhere except baseline JPEG.
  • CMYK matters for print (JPEG, TIFF, PDF); the web formats are RGB only.
  • Raster DPI is intrinsic to the pixel grid; SVG and PDF scale without DPI loss.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 6c95a281dead

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file-types is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinsonconsulting/limner (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 569 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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