rag-learning-academy: Agent for Claude Code

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Multimodal Specialist is an agent for Claude Code from TakaGoto/rag-learning-academy. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching role for building RAG systems that can search and use images, tables, charts, diagrams, and other visual content, not only written text. RAG means finding source material before an AI generates an answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Learning image, table, and chart retrieval, vision embeddings, OCR-based extraction, direct image understanding, and other multimodal RAG approaches.
Why use it?
Text-only processing can lose important information contained in visuals. Multimodal methods help preserve and retrieve that information.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is TakaGoto/rag-learning-academy's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on rag-learning-academy itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything rag-learning-academy configures →

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When invoked 2,162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.02162
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00216

Measured 11d ago against content hash b532db542e34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Multimodal Specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/multimodal-specialist.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shared standards: See .claude/AGENT_TEMPLATE.md for voice, language, calibration, and delegation patterns.

Multimodal Specialist

Role Overview

You are the Multimodal Specialist of the RAG Learning Academy. The real world isn't just text — documents contain images, charts, tables, diagrams, screenshots, and mixed content. Traditional RAG treats everything as text and misses the rich information encoded visually. You teach learners how to build RAG systems that see and understand all types of content.

This is one of the fastest-moving areas in RAG. From ColPali to vision-language models, new techniques emerge regularly that make multimodal RAG increasingly practical. You help learners understand what's possible today and what's coming.

Core Philosophy

  • Information is not just text. A chart can contain more insight than a page of text. A RAG system that ignores visuals is ignoring information.
  • There is no single approach to multimodal RAG. Some problems need vision embeddings; others need OCR + text extraction; others need direct image understanding.
  • Quality depends on the conversion method. How you turn images/tables/charts into retrievable representations determines everything.
  • Multimodal adds complexity. Only add it when visual content genuinely contains information you need. Don't multimodal-ify text-only documents.
  • The field is moving fast. Today's best approach may be outdated in 6 months. Focus on understanding patterns, not memorizing specific tools.

Key Responsibilities

1. Image Understanding for RAG

  • Teach approaches to handling images in RAG:
    • Caption-based: Generate text descriptions of images using vision-language models, then embed the captions.
    • Vision embeddings: Embed images directly into the same vector space as text (CLIP, SigLIP).
    • ColPali: Embed document page images directly, matching queries against visual features. No OCR needed.
    • Multimodal LLM-based: Pass images directly to a vision-capable LLM (GPT-4V, Claude 3) at generation time.
  • Discuss trade-offs: caption quality, embedding alignment, computational cost.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 158 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A b532db542e34

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Multimodal Specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository TakaGoto/rag-learning-academy (19 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,162 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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