google-image-search

google-image-search is a skill for Claude Code from glebis/claude-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An image-search add-on that uses Google Custom Search to find and download pictures, with an AI model scoring and selecting relevant results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding visuals for technical articles, presentations, research, or Obsidian notes, including batch searches.
Why use it?
It reduces manual image hunting and helps process several image searches together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the google-image-search plugin — 1 skill shipped together

not rated 374repo +4 8d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: warn 72 tokens original MIT

Good fit Finding visuals for technical articles, presentations, research, or Obsidian notes, including batch searches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glebis/claude-skills/google-image-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 glebis/claude-skills --skill google-image-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-image-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,196 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 57
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00072 $0.01196
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 7d ago against content hash 08d43b6bcf96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-image-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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/api.py, scripts/config.py, scripts/download.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.

google-image-search/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Image Search Skill

Search for images using Google Custom Search API with intelligent scoring and LLM-based selection.

When to Use

  • Finding images to illustrate technical articles or research
  • Adding visuals to presentations
  • Enriching Obsidian notes with relevant images
  • Batch image search for multiple topics
  • Generating image search configs from plain text lists

Requirements

  • Google Custom Search API key and Search Engine ID
  • OpenRouter API key (for LLM selection)
  • llm CLI installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/llm

Store credentials in .env:

Google-Custom-Search-JSON-API-KEY=your_key
Google-Custom-Search-CX=your_cx
OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your_openrouter_key

Modes of Operation

1. Simple Query

Search for a single term:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-image-search/scripts/google_image_search.py \
  --query "neural interface wearable device" \
  --output-dir ./images \
  --num-results 5

2. Batch Processing

Process multiple queries from JSON config:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-image-search/scripts/google_image_search.py \
  --config image_queries.json \
  --output-dir ./images \
  --llm-select

3. Generate Config from Terms

Create JSON config from a list of terms using LLM:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-image-search/scripts/google_image_search.py \
  --generate-config \
  --terms "AlterEgo wearable" "sEMG electrodes" "BCI headset" \
  --output my_queries.json

4. Enrich Obsidian Note

Extract visual terms from note, find images, and insert below headings:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-image-search/scripts/google_image_search.py \
  --enrich-note ~/Brains/brain/Research/neural-interfaces.md

This mode:

  1. Detects Obsidian vault and attachments folder
  2. Uses LLM to extract visual-worthy terms from note
  3. Searches for images for each term
  4. Downloads best images to attachments folder
  5. Inserts image embeds below relevant headings
  6. Creates backup before modifying note

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 7d ago First seen · 160 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 08d43b6bcf96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

google-image-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/claude-skills (374 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,196 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 2026-09-03.

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