google-cloud-vision

google-cloud-vision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (6,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Google Cloud Vision, a service that examines still images and returns structured information such as labels, object locations, detected text, safety signals, colors, and crop suggestions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reading text in images and documents, tagging objects and scenes, checking uploaded images, finding useful crops, and building image-processing pipelines.
Why use it?
It saves developers from building common image-recognition and OCR features from scratch, while keeping confidence and human review in view.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It is for reading text in images and documents, tagging objects and scenes, checking uploaded images, finding useful crops, and building image-processing pipelines.

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npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/google-cloud-vision
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Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill google-cloud-vision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,026 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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 $0.00096 $0.06026
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.03013
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00603

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6e9b4e464156, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-cloud-vision 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 9d 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.

skills/providers/image-understanding/google-cloud-vision/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Cloud Vision API for still-image understanding

Use Google Cloud Vision when the production task needs structured annotations from still images: general labels, object boxes, text/OCR, dense document text, explicit-content likelihoods, dominant colors, crop suggestions, or web-reference signals. Treat it as a computer-vision annotation service, not as a conversational image reasoner.

Verified on 2026-07-11 against first-party Google Cloud documentation whose Cloud Vision pages were last updated 2026-07-07 unless otherwise noted. Pricing, quotas, endpoints, product lifecycle, supported features, and model behavior are volatile; recheck the linked Google pages before promising a production SLA, budget, data-region commitment, or migration path.

Use and non-use boundaries

Documented fact: Cloud Vision API feature types include TEXT_DETECTION, DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION, LABEL_DETECTION, OBJECT_LOCALIZATION, SAFE_SEARCH_DETECTION, IMAGE_PROPERTIES, CROP_HINTS, and WEB_DETECTION, among other features such as landmarks, logos, and faces. Source: Google Cloud Vision features list, verified 2026-07-11.

Use Cloud Vision for:

  • Still images that need stable JSON fields rather than prose: labels with scores, object bounding polygons, OCR structure, SafeSearch likelihoods, dominant color values, crop vertices, web matches, or batch outputs.
  • Backend media pipelines where images live in Cloud Storage and annotations must be stored, audited, thresholded, or joined with internal records.
  • High-throughput OCR triage, moderation prefilters, asset tagging, crop automation, or web-reference discovery where deterministic fields and quotas matter more than open-ended reasoning.

Do not use Cloud Vision as the primary tool for:

  • Gemini multimodal reasoning: use Gemini/Vertex AI image understanding when the user asks for reasoning, visual question answering, comparison across many images, narrative descriptions, explanation, or flexible prompt-following. Documented distinction: Gemini image understanding accepts image-plus-text prompts and has limitations around precise spatial localization and possible hallucination; Cloud Vision returns feature-specific annotations. Source: Google Cloud Gemini image understanding docs, last updated 2026-07-09, verified 2026-07-11.
  • Video analysis: use Video Intelligence API or another video-understanding provider for per-shot, per-frame, segment-level, object tracking, text in video, explicit content in videos, audio transcription, or live-stream analysis. Source: Google Cloud Video Intelligence overview, verified 2026-07-11.
  • Image generation or editing: Cloud Vision analyzes images; it does not generate, retouch, upscale, remove backgrounds, or alter pixels.
  • Custom category training: use AutoML Vision or current Vertex AI/AutoML routes when the business needs a custom labeler/object detector. Cloud Vision's standard features are fixed provider models. The Product Search docs also state that AutoML Vision enables custom image labeling; verify current AutoML/Vertex recommendations before starting a new custom-model project.
  • Human reference analysis, provenance, or legal authenticity: WEB_DETECTION can return matching pages/images and inferred web entities, but it does not prove authorship, license, consent, manipulation history, source-of-truth identity, or rights clearance. Use it as evidence collection for a human reviewer, not as the reviewer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 lines

Files

What ships with it

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 335 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6e9b4e464156

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google-cloud-vision is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (171 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 6,026 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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