What is a CS2 inspect link?

A Steam inspect link opens an in-game preview of a specific CS2 item. It uses the steam://rungame protocol with a csgo_econ_action_preview command that encodes the item owner (SteamID or market listing), asset ID, and a verification hash. Every CS2 item has a different inspect link.

A 'gen code' is a chat or console command users paste into a CS2 community server running a skin-changer plugin like WeaponPaints, AcsLoader, or CS2 SkinChanger. The plugin spawns the specified skin on the player's weapon. Each plugin uses slightly different syntax — this tool emits codes for the three most-used.

Does this site call CSFloat's API for every inspect?

No. Since Valve's 2024 protocol change, CS2 inspect links self-encode their data via protobuf. We decode the link entirely in your browser using the official @csfloat/cs2-inspect-serializer library — paint kit, float, seed, stickers, all numeric. Zero API calls. Only the older pointer-only inspect format (which doesn't carry a payload) ever requires our optional /api/inspect resolver, and even that is server-side cached.

Can this tool render the actual skin?

Not directly. The protobuf carries IDs, not images. Renders come from Steam's CDN (community.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/economy/image/…), which the optional API path returns alongside the human-readable skin and sticker names. We also provide a one-click button to open the item in your CS2 client where it renders natively.

Yes. The decoder runs entirely in your browser. The only network call happens if you click the optional 'Add names + image' button, which goes through our own server-side proxy (cached 24h). No third-party API keys are exposed to your browser.

Inspect tool

Paste a CS2 inspect link — get the codes.

Decodes any CS2 Steam inspect link directly in your browser via the official @csfloat/cs2-inspect-serializer protobuf library. Modern self-encoded links carry paint kit, float, seed, stickers, and keychains in the URL itself — zero API calls. Pointer-only legacy links fall back to our server-side cache. Then generate ready-to-paste skin-changer commands for the three most-used CS2 server plugins.

1Paste a Steam inspect link

From any Steam Market listing, an inventory item, or a Discord paste. Accepts the full steam://… URL, the bare S…A…D… pointer params, or a bare self-encoded hex blob.

2Skin details

If you know the paint-kit / seed / float from the listing page or an inspect API, drop them here. The gen codes update live.

Weapon

Couldn’t load skin database. Check your network and try again.

Item tweaks

Paint-kit IDPattern seed

0–1023

Float / wear

Factory New (0.05)

StatTrak™

Loadout (0)

Build a full kit — weapons / knives / gloves become !g lines, agents become !agent lines.

Weapons

Knife

Gloves

Agent

3Copy a gen code

Paste the gen-code in chat on a server with a compatible skin-changer plugin, or open the inspect link directly in your CS2 client.

!g chat command (defindex-based plugins)

Four numeric params: weapon def-index, paint kit, pattern seed, float. The format plugins that take direct CS2 defindex IDs accept. Paste in chat. Note: server plugins that proxy to an external loadout database use a different short-ID format we can't generate from here.

!g 7 <paintkit> 0 0.050000

Inspect link

A freshly-encoded steam:// URL carrying every property of the current item (paint kit, seed, float, stickers, keychain, StatTrak). Open it in your CS2 client to preview the item live.

Open in CS2 client

steam://rungame/730/76561202255233023/+csgo_econ_action_preview 001807300438CD99B3EA0340003405A33F

What is what?

Paint-kit ID: Valve’s internal econ ID for a skin. AK-47 Asiimov = 279, AWP Dragon Lore = 344, M4A4 Howl = 309. Find them in any CS2 econ-items dump.
Pattern seed: 0–1023. Determines pattern placement for skins like Case Hardened (blue gems), Crimson Web, Marble Fade, Doppler. Most other skins look identical across seeds.
Float / wear: 0.00–1.00. Lower = cleaner. FN < 0.07, MW < 0.15, FT < 0.38, WW < 0.45, BS ≤ 1.00. Visual wear is non-linear within each bucket.
D hash: A 64-bit verification token Valve issues per inspect. Tied to the asset; not derivable from other fields.

For float + pattern lookup of a specific inspect link, services like CSFloat’s public inspect endpoint resolve it server- side. We don’t call any external API here — the parsing and gen-code generation stays in your browser.

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