perceiving-object-parts

perceiving-object-parts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from graph-robots/open-robot-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (2,040 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A two-stage vision process for finding a named part of a larger object. It first detects the parent object, then zooms into that object’s image area to detect and segment the requested part and estimate its position in the world.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to target parts such as a pan handle, drawer pull, moka-pot grip, mug rim, or stove burner for later robot actions.
Why use it?
Small parts are easier to identify after the image is cropped around their parent object, especially when the scene contains several similar parts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the open-robot-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to target parts such as a pan handle, drawer pull, moka-pot grip, mug rim, or stove burner for later robot actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/graph-robots/open-robot-skills/perceiving-object-parts
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add graph-robots/open-robot-skills --skill perceiving-object-parts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/graph-robots/open-robot-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install open-robot-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,040 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 $0.00137 $0.02040
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01020
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00204

Measured 10d ago against content hash c4410d4a3a15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perceiving-object-parts 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/perceive_subpart.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.

skills/perceiving-object-parts/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

perceiving-object-parts

Two-step zoom-in perception. The full image gives a small subpart (e.g. a frypan handle is ~3% of pixels) bad signal-to-noise for SAM3 text segmentation; cropping to the parent first brings the subpart up to ~30% of pixels in the cropped image — within SAM3's reliable range.

About parent_prompt and subpart_prompt: they are literal Python strings, NOT subgraph inputs. They are author-time constants per subgraph instance. DO NOT declare them in the subgraph's top-level inputs block, and DO NOT write Ref("in.parent_prompt") or any other Ref(...) for them. Write the strings directly on the inner script node, e.g. "parent_prompt": "frying pan", "subpart_prompt": "long horizontal handle of the frying pan". Only cameras is a flowed subgraph input (wired from the workflow's observation source, identical to perceiving-objects's cameras input).

When to use

  • The grasp/place affordance is a part of a larger object (pan handle, drawer pull, moka-pot grip, mug rim, stove burner).
  • Plain perceiving-objects with object_name="handle" fails because there are multiple handles in the scene (drawer pull, microwave door, cabinet, ...) and DINO can't disambiguate.

When NOT to use

  • The whole object IS the target (perceiving-objects is faster and produces a cleaner OBB).
  • The subpart spans the majority of the image already (skip the crop).

Pipeline

observation                       # rgb + depth + intrinsics + camera pose
   │
   ▼ grounding-dino.detect(rgb, parent_prompt)
parent_box (BoundingBox2D)         # broadest of the boxes, or VLM-picked
   │
   ▼ crop_rgb_to_box(parent_box, padding=30)
cropped_image                      # H_new × W_new × 3 uint8
   │
   ▼ grounding-dino.detect(crop, subpart_prompt) → sam3.segment_text
cropped_mask                       # subpart mask in crop coordinates
   │
   ▼ uncrop(cropped_mask → original H × W)
full_mask                          # H × W uint8, zeros outside crop
   │
   ▼ geometry.mask_to_world_points(full_mask, depth, K, T_cam)
world_cloud (PointCloud)
   │
   ▼ geometry.filter_noise → geometry.compute_obb
subpart_obb            # the split calls keep the unfiltered-cloud
                       # fallback when DBSCAN strips too many points

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 191 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A c4410d4a3a15

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perceiving-object-parts is a skill published in the GitHub repository graph-robots/open-robot-skills (41 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 2,040 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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