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Sharp

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: engineering-misc  ·  Last updated:
Process images with the Sharp library for Node.js — resize, convert formats, composite, apply effects, and manage metadata. Use when the user mentions "sharp", "image processing", "resize image", "convert image", "image format", "jpeg quality", "png compression", "webp", "avif", "image thumbnail", "crop image", "watermark", "overlay image", "blur image", "sharpen image", "image metadata", "EXIF", "ICC profile", "colour space", "alpha channel", "animated gif", "image pipeline", or asks how to manipulate images in Node.js/TypeScript. Also use for "sharp constructor", "sharp cache", "sharp concurrency", "toFile", "toBuffer", or any Sharp API method.

From the source SKILL.md

Skill for image processing with the [Sharp](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/) library in Node.js. Sharp is a high-performance image pipeline built on libvips.

What this skill does

Sharp is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/sharp/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user mentions "sharp", "image processing", "resize image", "convert image", "image format", "jpeg quality", "png compression", "webp", "avif", "image thumbnail", "crop image", "watermark", "overlay image", "blur image", "sharpen image", "image metadata", "EXIF", "ICC profile", "colour space", "alpha channel", "animated gif", "image pipeline", or asks how to manipulate images in Node.js/TypeScript.

Who uses this skill

The Sharp Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/sharp
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/sharp/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/sharp/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/sharp/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/sharp/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\sharp\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Sharp [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/sharp/
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@misc{sharp-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Sharp [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/sharp/}
}

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