> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.godrift.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Attaching Reference Images

> Give Drift a photo, screenshot, or datasheet page and it will use the image to inform scene generation, robot layout, and design decisions

Drift can look at an image you provide and use what it sees as context — the environment you want reproduced in simulation, the robot layout in a photo, dimensions labeled on a datasheet page. You attach the image once at the start of a prompt; Drift ingests it, then pulls exact labeled values on demand as it plans and builds.

<Info>
  Vision is on by default. There's nothing to install — just prepend the image path to your prompt.
</Info>

## How to attach

Prepend the absolute path to the image, then write your prompt:

```drift theme={null}
/home/you/Downloads/office.jpg build a MuJoCo world matching this room, then bring in the Metal Arm robot
```

```drift theme={null}
/home/you/robot-datasheet.png what's the joint 3 torque limit on this arm? use it in the URDF
```

Drift reads the image once, forms an inventory of what's in it, and keeps that inventory available for the rest of the session. Follow-up prompts can reference the image without re-attaching:

```drift theme={null}
what colour were the cabinets in that reference image again?
```

## Supported formats

`.png`, `.jpg` / `.jpeg`, `.gif`, `.webp`.

<Info>
  **`.avif` is not supported.** If you have a `.avif` (Chrome's default screenshot format on some systems), convert first:

  ```bash theme={null}
  ffmpeg -i input.avif output.png
  ```
</Info>

## Session lifetime

The image stays available across turns for the current session only. Starting a new `drift` session resets — re-attach if you want the image back in context.