photo-search

photo-search is a skill for Claude Code from drolosoft/immich-photo-manager. It costs 109 tokens per session (3,823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A natural-language search tool for an Immich photo library, which is a self-hosted system for organizing personal photos and videos. It can search by words, dates, places, people, cameras, and visual similarity.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps locate photos by subject or time, find screenshots, search by place or camera, and display matching images without creating temporary albums.
Why use it?
It lets users find pictures without remembering exact filenames or manually browsing every album.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the immich-photo-manager plugin — 13 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit It helps locate photos by subject or time, find screenshots, search by place or camera, and display matching images without creating temporary albums.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager/photo-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add drolosoft/immich-photo-manager --skill photo-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install immich-photo-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 5 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,823 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 $0.00109 $0.03823
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01912
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00765
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00382

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2da3dbca32f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

photo-search 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 8d 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/photo-search/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Connection Required: ALWAYS CHECK FIRST

Before doing ANYTHING else in this skill, call ping on the Immich MCP server.

  • If ping succeeds -> proceed with the skill normally.
  • If ping fails or the MCP tools are not available -> STOP. Do not continue. Tell the user:

Immich is not connected. This plugin needs a running Immich MCP server to work.

Run /setup-immich-photo-manager to configure your Immich connection. You'll need:

  1. Your Immich server URL (e.g., http://192.168.1.100:2283)
  2. An Immich API key (how to create one)
  3. The MCP server configured (see /setup-immich-photo-manager)

Do NOT skip this check. Do NOT try to run any other tool first. Always ping, always block if it fails.


CRITICAL RULE: NEVER CREATE TEMPORARY ALBUMS

This is the most important rule of this skill. NEVER create albums as part of a search workflow.

The user has a curated library of real albums. Creating temporary albums pollutes their library with junk. Instead:

  • If photos belong to a real album -> use that real album directly
  • If photos are NOT in any album -> show them directly using get_thumbnails_batch
  • NEVER call create_album from this skill. Not for "temp" albums, not for "search results", not for any reason.

Search Workflow (Step by Step)

Step 1: Parse user intent

Identify what the user is looking for. Determine which search dimensions apply.

If the user is browsing rather than looking for something specific ("what's in here?", "surprise me"), start with search_explore for one representative photo per city and per detected concept, or search_random for a quick sample. Both answer in one call.

Step 2: Search for matching photos

Use search_metadata and/or search_smart to find matching assets.

IMPORTANT: how Immich stores place names:

  • Immich stores cities as municipalities, not tourist names. "Tikal" does not exist as a city; it's in the municipality of "Flores" (state: "Petén", country: "Guatemala").
  • "Lanzarote" does not exist as a city; look for municipalities like "Arrecife", "Yaiza", "Teguise", "Haría", etc. (state: "Canary Islands", country: "Spain").
  • When a place-name search returns 0 results, try broader terms: search by state or country instead of city, then filter. Or use search_smart with the place name as a CLIP query.
  • Do not guess spellings. search_cities lists every city that appears in the library, and search_suggestions(suggestion_type="city", country="Spain") returns the exact strings search_metadata expects. One call is cheaper than three failed searches, and the same works for camera-make and camera-model.

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 lines

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. 8d ago Changed 2da3dbca32f3
  2. 8d ago Changed · +9 lines f2015994e6d7
  3. 12d ago First seen · 279 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 54c26f78e650

Subscribe to this mod's changes

photo-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository drolosoft/immich-photo-manager (47 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 3,823 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 2026-08-30.

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