vectorize

A workflow for tracing a raster image, such as a PNG or JPEG, into an SVG vector file. Vector artwork is made from paths, so logos and icons remain sharp when resized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for logos, icons, line art, and flat illustrations; photographs and heavily shaded images are not good candidates for tracing.
Why use it?
It avoids blurry enlargement and produces an editable format for suitable flat graphics.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 811 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 $0.00049 $0.00811
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash 8559c054073d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vectorize 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 yesterday.

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/vectorize/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vectorize a raster image

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

Use this skill to trace a raster image into a scalable SVG, so a logo, icon, or flat illustration stays crisp at any size and is editable in a vector tool. The limner_vectorize tool does the trace; it is a paid Recraft call. The reference at the end states when a vector beats a raster.

Procedure

  1. Check the source suits vectorizing. Flat graphics (logos, icons, line art) trace cleanly; photographs and shaded images do not.
  2. Vectorize. Call limner_vectorize with the source image URL. It is a paid Recraft call that returns an SVG through its capability URL.
  3. Refine if needed. Open the SVG in a vector editor (Inkscape, Affinity Designer) for path cleanup, or use it directly where scalability matters.
  4. Rasterize back if a fixed-size raster is needed. Render the SVG out through compose.

Judgment

  • Vectorize flat art, not photos. A traced photograph is a heavy, messy SVG; upscale a photo instead.
  • When you control the source, generate vector from the start with Recraft rather than tracing a raster afterward.
  • It is a paid call, so vectorize the final raster, not every draft.

Reference

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

Vectorize a raster image

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

Vectorizing traces a raster image (a PNG or JPEG) into a scalable SVG made of paths, so a logo, icon, or flat illustration stays crisp at any size and can be edited in a vector tool. Limner does this with the limner_vectorize tool, a paid Recraft call: it takes a source image by URL and returns an SVG.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 8559c054073d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vectorize is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinsonconsulting/limner (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 811 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.