clip-aware-embeddings

clip-aware-embeddings is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for matching images and text by meaning using CLIP, an AI model that places related images and descriptions near each other in a shared numerical space. It also explains when other models are more suitable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for semantic image search, broad category labeling without task-specific training, and finding visually or conceptually similar images.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using image-text similarity for tasks it handles poorly, such as counting objects, recognizing specific car models, or understanding which object is on the left.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/diagnose_clip_issue.py --image path/to/image --query "your query".

Part of the clip-aware-embeddings plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for semantic image search, broad category labeling without task-specific training, and finding visually or conceptually similar images.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/clip-aware-embeddings

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clip-aware-embeddings, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,318 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 $0.00082 $0.02318
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01159
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00232

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4a3312af0776, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clip-aware-embeddings 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_clip_usage.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/skills/clip-aware-embeddings/SKILL.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLIP-Aware Image Embeddings

Smart image-text matching that knows when CLIP works and when to use alternatives.

MCP Integrations

MCP Purpose
Firecrawl Research latest CLIP alternatives and benchmarks
Hugging Face (if configured) Access model cards and documentation

Quick Decision Tree

Your task:
├─ Semantic search ("find beach images") → CLIP ✓
├─ Zero-shot classification (broad categories) → CLIP ✓
├─ Counting objects → DETR, Faster R-CNN ✗
├─ Fine-grained ID (celebrities, car models) → Specialized model ✗
├─ Spatial relations ("cat left of dog") → GQA, SWIG ✗
└─ Compositional ("red car AND blue truck") → DCSMs, PC-CLIP ✗

When to Use This Skill

Use for:

  • Semantic image search
  • Broad category classification
  • Image similarity matching
  • Zero-shot tasks on new categories

Do NOT use for:

  • Counting objects in images
  • Fine-grained classification
  • Spatial understanding
  • Attribute binding
  • Negation handling

Installation

pip install transformers pillow torch sentence-transformers --break-system-packages

Validation: Run python scripts/validate_setup.py

Basic Usage

Image Search

from transformers import CLIPProcessor, CLIPModel
from PIL import Image

model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-large-patch14")
processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-large-patch14")

# Embed images
images = [Image.open(f"img{i}.jpg") for i in range(10)]
inputs = processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
image_features = model.get_image_features(**inputs)

# Search with text
text_inputs = processor(text=["a beach at sunset"], return_tensors="pt")
text_features = model.get_text_features(**text_inputs)

# Compute similarity
similarity = (image_features @ text_features.T).softmax(dim=0)

Common Anti-Patterns

Anti-Pattern 1: "CLIP for Everything"

❌ Wrong:

# Using CLIP to count cars in an image
prompt = "How many cars are in this image?"
# CLIP cannot count - it will give nonsense results

Read the full file on GitHub · 340 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 340 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 4a3312af0776

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clip-aware-embeddings is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,318 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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