optimize-images

optimize-images is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vladolaru/claude-code-plugins. It costs 22 tokens per session (976 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reducing image file sizes without changing their visual quality. It supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, and SVG files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews image optimization candidates, asks for confirmation, and then applies lossless optimization to selected files.
Why use it?
Large image files can slow websites and use more storage, while manual optimization can accidentally reduce quality.

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/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/optimize-images
Any agent
npx skills add vladolaru/claude-code-plugins --skill optimize-images
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins

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.

agentmods badge for optimize-images

README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 976 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 $0.00022 $0.00976
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00488
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00098

Measured 3d ago against content hash bab512dbdc5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimize-images 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 3d 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.

plugins/image-optimizer/codex-skills/optimize-images/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Host Adapter

This skill is generated from the canonical Claude Code command named above. To execute it in Codex:

  1. Treat the text supplied after the skill mention as the invocation arguments. Substitute that exact text for ${CODEX_SKILL_ARGUMENTS} before executing shell commands.
  2. Resolve CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT to the absolute plugin root. The loaded skill directory is <plugin-root>/codex-skills/<skill-name>, so the plugin root is two directories above the directory containing this SKILL.md.
  3. Assign both variables explicitly in any shell call that uses them. Codex does not export these instruction variables automatically.
  4. Use Codex's available user-input and subagent tools when the workflow requests them.
  5. Follow the canonical workflow below without skipping its gates or artifact checks.

Canonical Workflow

Image Asset Optimizer

Lossless image optimization with review -> confirm -> apply workflow.

Target: ${CODEX_SKILL_ARGUMENTS} (directory or image file to optimize)

How It Works

Raster images (PNG, JPEG, GIF): Optimizations are fully lossless - file sizes are reduced without any loss in image quality. Uses ImageOptim which applies multiple optimization techniques while preserving every pixel.

SVG files: Uses svgo, the same optimizer powering SVGOMG. The bundled configuration uses web-safe default techniques that safely reduce file size without breaking SVG rendering.

Prerequisites

# Raster images (PNG, JPEG, GIF)
npm install -g imageoptim-cli
# ImageOptim.app required: https://imageoptim.com

# SVG optimization
npm install -g svgo

Workflow (MUST FOLLOW)

Step 1: Optimize and Show Report

Run optimization WITHOUT --cleanup to generate and review results:

CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT="<absolute plugin root: two directories above the directory containing this SKILL.md>"
"${CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/optimize-images.sh" "${CODEX_SKILL_ARGUMENTS}" "${CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/svgo.config.mjs" /tmp/img-optimize

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 3d ago First seen · 105 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A bab512dbdc5e

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optimize-images is a skill published in the GitHub repository vladolaru/claude-code-plugins (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 976 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.