asset-retrieval

asset-retrieval is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HorizonRobotics/EmbodiedGen. It costs 66 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A lookup tool for simulation-ready robot and environment assets stored in a dataset index. It returns paths to URDF files, a standard text format that describes a robot or physical object for simulation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find one or more matching assets such as furniture, robots, or other objects and return their absolute URDF file paths.
Why use it?
It avoids scanning asset folders manually when you need an existing object for a simulation. It can match natural-language descriptions, including broad or non-English requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find one or more matching assets such as furniture, robots, or other objects and return their absolute URDF file paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/horizonrobotics/embodiedgen/asset-retrieval
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add HorizonRobotics/EmbodiedGen --skill asset-retrieval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HorizonRobotics/EmbodiedGen

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 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 $0.00066 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00074

Measured 10d ago against content hash fa5001eda00d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asset-retrieval 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/retrieve_asset.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.

embodied_gen/skills/asset-retrieval/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Asset Retrieval

Look up simulation-ready assets from dataset_index.csv and return .urdf paths. The CSV index is the single source of truth.

Workflow

Preferred — agent reads CSV directly:

  1. Read dataset_index.csv into context.
  2. Semantically match the user's description (open-ended, fuzzy, or in any language) against category, secondary_category, primary_category, and description columns.
  3. Return the best-matching absolute .urdf path; return multiple candidates when the request is broad or explicitly asks for several.
  4. Briefly explain why the returned asset matches.

This path handles open-ended queries like "a tall chair suitable for a coffee shop" or "能放在客厅角落的落地灯" that pure keyword matching cannot resolve.

Fallback — CLI script (no network / no LLM):

When the agent is unavailable, use the helper script which performs offline keyword-based ranking:

python embodied_gen/skills/asset-retrieval/scripts/retrieve_asset.py \
  "modern dining chair curved backrest"

For the CLI path, rewrite open-ended or Chinese descriptions into compact English keywords first (e.g. 能放在客厅角落的落地灯floor lamp).

Index Resolution

Checked in order — first match wins:

  1. --index-file CLI argument
  2. $EMBODIEDGEN_DATASET_INDEX environment variable
  3. $EMBODIEDGEN_DATASET_ROOT/dataset_index.csv
  4. <repo-root>/outputs/EmbodiedGenData/dataset/dataset_index.csv

Dataset root follows a parallel order (--dataset-root$EMBODIEDGEN_DATASET_ROOT → repo default).

Required CSV Columns

uuid, primary_category, secondary_category, category, description, generate_time, urdf_path

Query Guidelines

  • Use explicit object words: chair, bar stool, remote control.
  • Keep discriminating modifiers: wooden, orange, modern, round.
  • Open-ended or Chinese descriptions are fine for the agent path; rewrite to English keywords only when using the CLI script.

Script Usage

# Single best match (absolute path on stdout)
python embodied_gen/skills/asset-retrieval/scripts/retrieve_asset.py \
  "modern dining chair curved backrest"

# Multiple candidates with scores
python embodied_gen/skills/asset-retrieval/scripts/retrieve_asset.py \
  "orange cushioned bar stool" \
  --top-k 5 --format json

# Custom dataset location
python embodied_gen/skills/asset-retrieval/scripts/retrieve_asset.py \
  "black remote control" \
  --dataset-root /path/to/dataset \
  --index-file /path/to/dataset/dataset_index.csv

# Relative paths instead of absolute
python embodied_gen/skills/asset-retrieval/scripts/retrieve_asset.py \
  "wooden bar stool" --relative-paths

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 88 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A fa5001eda00d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asset-retrieval is a skill published in the GitHub repository HorizonRobotics/EmbodiedGen (660 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 737 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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