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Thumbnails of the images you paste, above the prompt; click the magnifier to enlarge one in a pane.

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★ 2v0.1.1MITupdated 2026-10-08shdennlin/agent-plugins/plugins/image-peek
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image-peek

A mod (function hooks that run inside Claude Code) that shows the images you paste while they are still in the prompt box.

  • Paste an image (Ctrl+V): a thumbnail of it appears above the prompt, one per [Image #N] in the box.
  • Click the 🔍 #N button under a thumbnail: the picture opens enlarged in a pane, with its pixel size.
  • The thumbnails go away when the prompt is sent or the tag is deleted.

The thumbnail itself is not clickable (an Image element takes no onPress), hence the button under it.

Needs

  • Claude Code 2.1.289+ (hook modules).
  • A terminal that draws kitty graphics: Ghostty, cmux (tested), kitty. Elsewhere the thumbnail shows its alt text.
  • macOS: it reads the size with sips, and the clipboard fallback uses osascript.

Install

/plugin install image-peek --marketplace shdennlin/agent-plugins

How it works

  • Claude Code writes a pasted image to <tmp>/claude-<uid>/<project>/<session>/images/N.png as soon as it is pasted. The mod reads the file from there, the terminal decodes it (Image with a file source), nothing is copied.
  • A paste raises no prompt.edit, so the mod looks at the box every 300 ms with $.prompt.read() and follows the [Image #N] tags.
  • If a tag stays without its file for about a second (Claude Code's store is off), the mod copies the clipboard's PNG to $DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR/image-peek/<session>/N.png (macOS's per-user temp folder; each folder is created mode 700 and checked to be a real directory of yours before anything is written) and shows that.
  • The band draws on top of whatever the plugins beneath it drew (await next(e)), so it sits beside other mods' bands such as cut-input instead of replacing them.

Develop

claude plugin validate plugins/image-peek
claude plugin test plugins/image-peek
claude --plugin-dir ./plugins/image-peek   # lays .claude-plugin/types/ for tsc -p plugins/image-peek

Known limits

  • Only the draft is covered; images in already-sent messages get no preview.
  • Pasting several images within a fraction of a second can attach the clipboard fallback to the wrong tag (only when the store is off).
  • Paths assume macOS (/private/tmp, sips, osascript).
Source 2 files
hooks/register.tsx 233 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { Engine, Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4const PANE = 'image-peek'
5const THUMB_COLS = 16
6const THUMB_ROWS = 6
7const RETRIES = 12
8
9const tags = atom({ plugin: 'image-peek', key: 'tags' } as const, [])
10const selected = atom({ plugin: 'image-peek', key: 'selected' } as const, null)
11
12let imagesDir: string | null = null
13let cacheBase: string | null = null
14const sizes = new Map<string, { w: number; h: number }>()
15const snapped = new Set<number>()
16const missingFor = new Map<number, number>() // polls a tag has gone without its file
17let retries = 0
18let isWaiting = false
19
20// The folder Claude Code stores pasted images in: <tmp>/claude-<uid>/<project>/<session>/images
21async function dirOf($: Engine): Promise<string | null> {
22  if (imagesDir !== null) return imagesDir
23  const uid = (await $.process.run(['id', '-u'])).stdout.trim()
24  const session = await $.session.id()
25  const root = `/private/tmp/claude-${uid}`
26  for (const project of await $.fs.list(root)) {
27    const dir = `${root}/${project.name}/${session}/images`
28    if (await $.fs.exists(dir)) {
29      imagesDir = dir
30      return dir
31    }
32  }
33  return null
34}
35
36// The copy lives under macOS's per-user temp folder (mode 700), never the shared /tmp, so no
37// other user can plant a link at the path or read the picture.
38async function cacheRoot($: Engine): Promise<string> {
39  if (cacheBase === null) {
40    const base = (await $.process.run(['getconf', 'DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR'])).stdout.trim().replace(/\/$/, '')
41    cacheBase = `${base}/image-peek`
42  }
43  return cacheBase
44}
45
46async function cacheOf($: Engine, n: number): Promise<string> {
47  const session = await $.session.id()
48  return `${await cacheRoot($)}/${session}/${n}.png`
49}
50
51// Make `dir` ourselves (no -p) and use it only if it is a real directory, ours, mode 700; stat
52// does not follow a link, so a planted link shows as something else and is refused.
53async function isPrivateDir($: Engine, dir: string): Promise<boolean> {
54  const uid = (await $.process.run(['id', '-u'])).stdout.trim()
55  await $.process.run(['mkdir', '-m', '700', dir])
56  const seen = (await $.process.run(['stat', '-f', '%u %Lp %HT', dir])).stdout.trim()
57  return seen === `${uid} 700 Directory`
58}
59
60async function fileOf($: Engine, n: number): Promise<string | null> {
61  const dir = await dirOf($)
62  if (dir !== null && (await $.fs.exists(`${dir}/${n}.png`))) return `${dir}/${n}.png`
63  const cached = await cacheOf($, n)
64  return (await $.fs.exists(cached)) ? cached : null
65}
66
67// Fallback for a paste whose file Claude Code has not written: copy the clipboard's PNG.
68async function snapshot($: Engine, n: number) {
69  const file = await cacheOf($, n)
70  const session = file.slice(0, file.lastIndexOf('/'))
71  if (!(await isPrivateDir($, await cacheRoot($))) || !(await isPrivateDir($, session))) return
72  await $.process.run([
73    'osascript',
74    '-e', 'set d to (the clipboard as «class PNGf»)',
75    '-e', `set f to open for access POSIX file "${file}" with write permission`,
76    '-e', 'set eof f to 0',
77    '-e', 'write d to f',
78    '-e', 'close access f',
79  ])
80}
81
82async function sizeOf($: Engine, file: string) {
83  const known = sizes.get(file)
84  if (known) return known
85  const out = (await $.process.run(['sips', '-g', 'pixelWidth', '-g', 'pixelHeight', file])).stdout
86  const w = Number(/pixelWidth: (\d+)/.exec(out)?.[1] ?? 0)
87  const h = Number(/pixelHeight: (\d+)/.exec(out)?.[1] ?? 0)
88  const size = w > 0 && h > 0 ? { w, h } : { w: 4, h: 3 }
89  sizes.set(file, size)
90  return size
91}
92
93// Fit a picture into maxCols x maxRows cells, keeping its aspect (a cell is about 1:2).
94function fit(size: { w: number; h: number }, maxCols: number, maxRows: number) {
95  const ratio = size.w / size.h / 0.5
96  let columns = maxCols
97  let rows = Math.round(columns / ratio)
98  if (rows > maxRows) {
99    rows = maxRows
100    columns = Math.round(rows * ratio)
101  }
102  return { columns: Math.max(1, Math.min(255, columns)), rows: Math.max(1, Math.min(255, rows)) }
103}
104
105const sameTags = (a: number[], b: number[]) => a.length === b.length && a.every((n, i) => n === b[i])
106
107// Look at the box on a timer (a paste raises no prompt.edit). The band is redrawn only when the
108// tags change, never on a plain edit.
109async function syncTags($: Engine) {
110  const { text } = await $.prompt.read()
111  const found = [...text.matchAll(/\[Image #(\d+)\]/g)].map(m => Number(m[1]))
112  const old = await read($, tags)
113
114  for (const n of found) {
115    if (snapped.has(n)) continue
116    if ((await fileOf($, n)) !== null) {
117      missingFor.delete(n)
118      continue
119    }
120    const polls = (missingFor.get(n) ?? 0) + 1
121    missingFor.set(n, polls)
122    if (polls >= 4) {
123      snapped.add(n)
124      await snapshot($, n)
125    }
126  }
127
128  if (!sameTags(old, found)) {
129    await update($, tags, () => found)
130  }
131
132  // A file that was missing at the last draw: redraw once it is there.
133  if (isWaiting && retries < RETRIES) {
134    retries += 1
135    const files = await Promise.all(found.map(n => fileOf($, n)))
136    if (files.every(f => f !== null)) {
137      isWaiting = false
138      $.ui.invalidate('ui.render')
139    }
140  }
141}
142
143export const register: Register = on => {
144  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
145    $.clock.every(300, () => {
146      void syncTags($)
147    })
148
149    return next(e)
150  })
151
152  on('prompt.submit', async ($, e, next) => {
153    update($, tags, () => []).catch(() => {})
154    update($, selected, () => null).catch(() => {})
155    $.ui.close({ id: PANE }).catch(() => {})
156    retries = 0
157
158    return next(e)
159  })
160
161  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
162    const list = await read($, tags)
163    if (e.surface !== 'terminal' || e.props.hasSurvey || list.length === 0) {
164      return next(e)
165    }
166
167    const { Box, Text, Image, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
168    const below = await next(e)
169    const items = await Promise.all(
170      list.map(async n => {
171        const file = await fileOf($, n)
172        return { n, file, size: file ? await sizeOf($, file) : null }
173      }),
174    )
175    isWaiting = items.some(i => i.file === null)
176
177    const room = Math.max(2, Math.min(THUMB_ROWS, e.props.maxRows - 5))
178    const cols = Math.max(6, Math.min(THUMB_COLS, Math.floor(e.props.bodyColumns / items.length) - 4))
179
180    return (
181      <Box flexDirection="column">
182        {below}
183        <Box flexDirection="row">
184          {items.map(({ n, file, size }) => (
185            <Box flexDirection="column" alignItems="center" borderStyle="round" borderDimColor>
186              {file && size ? (
187                <Image key={`img-${n}`} source={{ file, format: 'png' }} {...fit(size, cols, room)} alt={`Image #${n}`} />
188              ) : (
189                <Text dimColor>loading…</Text>
190              )}
191              <Text dimColor>#{n}</Text>
192            </Box>
193          ))}
194        </Box>
195        <Box flexDirection="row">
196          {items.map(({ n }) => (
197            <Button
198              key={`open-${n}`}
199              label={`🔍 #${n}`}
200              onPress={async () => {
201                await update($, selected, () => n)
202                await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: `Image #${n}`, focus: true })
203              }}
204            />
205          ))}
206        </Box>
207      </Box>
208    )
209  })
210
211  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
212    const n = await read($, selected)
213    const { Box, Text, Image } = $.ui.resolve(e)
214    const file = n === null ? null : await fileOf($, n)
215
216    if (n === null || file === null) {
217      return <Text dimColor>No image.</Text>
218    }
219
220    const size = await sizeOf($, file)
221    const box = fit(size, Math.max(8, (e.viewport?.columns ?? 80) - 6), Math.max(4, (e.viewport?.rows ?? 24) - 6))
222
223    return (
224      <Box flexDirection="column">
225        <Image key={`big-${n}`} source={{ file, format: 'png' }} {...box} alt={`Image #${n}`} />
226        <Text dimColor>
227          #{n} · {size.w}×{size.h}px
228        </Text>
229      </Box>
230    )
231  })
232}
233
types/index.d.ts 8 lines
1export type PeekTag = number
2
3declare module 'claude-code' {
4  interface PluginState {
5    'image-peek': { tags: PeekTag[]; selected: PeekTag | null }
6  }
7}
8