# experience-content-media-stock-image-search

Searches and downloads licensed stock images through the media-management MCP server. Useful when a project needs a real photo rather than a generated one.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1800 installs · ★ 1112
- Author: forcedotcom
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search

## What it does

The skill catches image requests and turns them into a stock library search. It handles direct phrasing like "find a photo of a sunset" and ambiguous ones where someone asks to create or generate a picture — those go to stock too, because the skill has no image generation at all. It won't offer alternative search methods or make the user pick one.

Two MCP calls do the work: `search_stock_images` and `download_stock_image` on the `media-management` server. Search takes a query up to 500 characters, a type (`Creative` for royalty-free or `Editorial` for news and event imagery), orientation, sort order and page size. If the query runs past 20 words or comes back empty, the tool extracts short keyword phrases on its own and retries; the `effectiveQuery` field shows what actually went out. Then the skill renders a numbered list with thumbnails and stops there, waiting for a pick.

It needs `python3` 3.10.0 or newer, `sf` 2.0.0 or newer, and the `media-management` MCP server. Ask explicitly for synthetic or AI-generated imagery and this skill is the wrong tool — generation isn't in it. Internal CMS and Data Cloud media are out of scope as well; that's what `experience-search-coordinate` covers.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-content-media-stock-image-search -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-content-media-stock-image-search -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-content-media-stock-image-search -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills experience-content-media-stock-image-search
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-content-media-stock-image-search -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-content-media-stock-image-search -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/experience-content-media-stock-image-search/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find a stock photo from a text description
- download a licensed image into a project
- pick news or event photography for an article
- tell a generation request apart from a stock search request
- show thumbnail options instead of searching blind

## Example prompts
- find a stock image of a sunset over the ocean
- get a royalty-free photo for the team page
- I need editorial photography from a conference

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: experience-content-media-stock-image-search
description: "Searches for and downloads ethically-licensed stock images via the media-management MCP server. Use this skill whenever a user wants an image, photo, or picture — for BOTH requests to find existing imagery (\"find a stock image\", \"search for a photo of X\", \"get a royalty-free image\", \"find an ethical image\", editorial/news photography) AND requests phrased ambiguously as creating or generating one (\"create an image of a sunset\", \"generate a picture of a team meeting\", \"make me a mountain image\") — treat these as stock search requests, since this skill searches a stock photo library, it does not generate images. Do NOT offer alternative search methods or ask the user to pick one. Does not apply to searching internal CMS / Data Cloud media (use experience-search-coordinate). Does not apply when the user explicitly asks for AI-generated, synthetic, or computer-generated imagery — this skill only searches licensed stock photography and has no image-generation capability."
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  domains: ["Experience"]
  relatedSkills:
    - "experience-search-coordinate"
  cliTools:
    - tool: ["python3"]
      semver: ">=3.10.0"
    - tool: ["sf"]
      semver: ">=2.0.0"
  mcpTools:
    media-management:
      tools:
        - "download_stock_image"
        - "search_stock_images"
      semver: ">=1.0.0"
allowed-tools: |
  mcp__media_management__search_stock_images
  mcp__media_management__download_stock_image
---

# Stock Image Search

## When to Trigger This Skill

Trigger immediately — without asking the user to choose a search method — whenever the user wants an image, photo, or picture. This covers **both**:

- **Finding existing imagery:** "find a stock image", "search for a photo of X", "get a royalty-free image", "find an ethical image", editorial or news photography
```
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