Image editor sidecar — when the user wants to modify, transform, filter, animate, or compose images, this skill exposes a full image-manipulation toolkit Claude can call directly. Results render inline in the chat by default; an optional live web canvas is available for visual tasks like interactive crop or text placement. Use this whenever the user says "edit this image," "apply [a filter / sepia / a polaroid / a watermark / etc.]," "resize / crop / rotate," "make it look [vintage / cartoon / etc.]," "animate this," or shares an image and wants any kind of manipulation done. Also use it for image creation primitives (gradients, color palettes, QR codes) and image-to-audio sonification. Don't reach for this skill for image generation from prompts (that's a different model); reach for it whenever there's an existing image and the user wants something done TO it.
2026-05-12