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Preview Shots Agent Skill

Open image shots (screenshots, snapshot baselines, montages, renders) in ONE macOS Preview window so the user can eyeball them. Use when the user asks to open / show / pull up / review shots in Preview or Finder, or right after producing visual artifacts the user should look at before signing off.

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SKILL.md, read when the skill is used
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how many repositories repackaged it
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on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/dzhng/skills --skill preview-shots

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

Preview Shots

Put the review-worthy images in front of the user in a single Preview window they can flip through.

Workflow

  • Curate the set — the images that answer "is this right?": the just-changed or just-blessed baselines, the integrated result, and the reference image when there's something to compare against. Don't dump every PNG in the folder; pick the smallest set that lets the user judge the change. If the user named specific shots, open exactly those.
  • One window — open them with a single open -a Preview <path> <path> ... call. One open invocation lands all the files in one window with a thumbnail sidebar; separate calls spawn separate windows.
  • Caption them — list one line per shot (what it is) so the user knows what they're flipping through.

Rules

  • macOS only (open); pass absolute or repo-root-relative paths.
  • Order the files most-important-first; the first one is what Preview shows on open.
  • Review saved PNG/GIF artifacts, not live Chrome. Exact regression capture

should run headless by default; only open Chrome when the user explicitly asks

for a live browser or when reproducing a headful-only bug.

  • One set at a time — never pile up windows. Before opening a new set, close

any open ones: osascript -e 'tell application "Preview" to close every window'.

  • Close on unattended proceed. When you opened shots for a non-blocking review

and then move on without the user's response, close Preview afterward:

osascript -e 'quit app "Preview"'. An overnight autonomous run must never wake

the user to a wall of Preview windows — at most one set open, and none once

you've proceeded past the checkpoint.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take dzhng/preview-shots from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.