describe-image

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name: describe-image description: This prompt asks the AI to look at a provided image and produce a clear, user-friendly description of what’s visible. The result is a concise summary of the main subjects, setting, and notable details in the image, tailored to the user’s request. compatibility: Requires betterprompt >= 0.1.0

What it does

This prompt asks the AI to look at a provided image and produce a clear, user-friendly description of what’s visible. The result is a concise summary of the main subjects, setting, and notable details in the image, tailored to the user’s request.

For more installation instructions go to https://skills.sh/betterpromptme/betterprompt/betterprompt to check out this skill.

Inputs

imageInputs

This prompt requires exactly 1 image. You must pass exactly 1 image flag (no more, no fewer), in the order matching the descriptions below.

Index	Required	Description	Allowed CLI flags
1	Yes	photo	--image-input-url <url> or --image-input-base64 <base64> or --image-input-path <absolute path to image>

Models and options

This skill's modality is: text.

To discover which model values you can use (and which options keys/values are valid for each model), run:

betterprompt resources --models-only --json

Then filter the returned JSON array to entries where modality is "text".

How to run

Step 1: Collect inputs

First, run betterprompt resources --models-only --json and filter to modality: "text" to discover valid models and available options:

betterprompt resources --models-only --json

Use only the models and option values that appear in the filtered results.

Then collect all inputs from the human:

• Required images:
  • Exactly 1 images: image 1 (photo). Images must be provided in this order.
• Optional: model and options.
  • Present the human with the default model claude-opus-4.5 and its available options. Look up claude-opus-4.5 in the betterprompt resources output (filtered to modality "text") and show its availableOptions as: key: val1, val2 (default), val3 | key2: .... Mark a value (default) if it matches these defaults: {"reasoningEffort":"low"}.
  • If the human does not specify, defaults are used: model claude-opus-4.5, options {"reasoningEffort":"low"}. Other models from the resources call are also available.

If the required images are missing, ask the human for what's missing. Do not assume or fabricate values. Tell the human: "Please provide images in this order: image 1 (photo)".

Step 2: Run via BetterPrompt CLI

Use the frontmatter's name as the positional argument (for this skill, use describe-image).

Command form:

betterprompt generate describe-image \
  [--image-input-url <url>] \
  [--image-input-base64 <base64>] \
  [--image-input-path <absolute path to image>] \
  [--model <model>] \
  [--options <options JSON>] \
  [--json]

Notes:

• Pass each image using one of --image-input-url, --image-input-base64, or --image-input-path, in the order matching the imageInputs descriptions (image 1 first, then image 2, etc.).
• If the human does not mention a model, omit --model and BetterPrompt will use the default model: claude-opus-4.5.
• If the human does not mention options, omit --options and BetterPrompt will use the default options: {"reasoningEffort":"low"}.
• If the run times out, the response will include a runId you can use to fetch the result later.

Example (using defaults shown above):

betterprompt generate describe-image \
  --image-input-url https://example.com/image1.png \
  --model claude-opus-4.5 \
  --options '{"reasoningEffort":"low"}'