semantic_search

semantic_search is a skill for Claude Code from Jarzembak/calibremcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (599 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of semantic_search, MIT.

A search system for a Calibre ebook library that finds books by meaning as well as by exact words. Calibre is an application for managing ebook collections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find books by topic, discover books similar to a title, filter by author or tags, and search full ebook contents.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant books when you do not know the exact title, author, or wording to search for. It can search book details and, when indexed, the text inside ebooks.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the calibre-mcp plugin — 6 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find books by topic, discover books similar to a title, filter by author or tags, and search full ebook contents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jarzembak/calibremcp/semantic_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 Jarzembak/calibremcp --skill semantic_search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jarzembak/calibremcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install calibre-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 599 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.00599
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9249bd9f8a2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semantic_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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to semantic_search — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/semantic_search/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Semantic Search (Metadata RAG)

Description: Find books by meaning using LanceDB over title, authors, tags, comments, and series. Supports hybrid keyword + vector search across your entire Calibre library.

Trigger Phrases

  • "Find books about [topic]"
  • "Search my library for [query]"
  • "What do I have on [subject]?"
  • "Show me books similar to [title]"
  • "Find [author] books about [theme]"

Tools

  • calibre_metadata_index_build() — Build or rebuild the LanceDB metadata index. Run once per library or after large batch imports.
  • calibre_metadata_search(query="...", top_k=10) — Natural-language semantic search over book metadata. Returns ranked results with relevance scores.
  • rag_index_build() — Build full-text content index from ebook text (requires epub/mobi extraction).
  • rag_retrieve(query="...", top_k=5) — Semantic search over full book contents, not just metadata.
  • search_fulltext(query="...") — Legacy full-text search with exact phrase matching and boolean operators.
  • query_books(search="...", tags=[...], authors=[...]) — Structured metadata filtering with AND/OR logic.

Workflow

  1. Index check: If no index exists, call calibre_metadata_index_build() first (runs async, takes 1-5 min per 1000 books).
  2. Metadata search: Use calibre_metadata_search() for broad semantic queries. Combine with top_k to control result breadth.
  3. Filter refinement: Narrow results by chaining with query_books() using author, tag, or series filters.
  4. Deep content search: For research-style queries, call rag_retrieve() to search inside book text. Caveat: works best on epub format.
  5. Result presentation: Return title, author, relevance score, and match highlights. Include calibre book_id for follow-up actions (open, metadata edit, export).

Search Operators

  • Phrase match: Use quotes in search_fulltext"machine learning"
  • Boolean: search_fulltext(query="python AND (data science OR ML)")
  • Tag filter: query_books(tags=["python", "tutorial"], limit=20)
  • Date range: query_books(added_since="2024-01-01")

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 10d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9249bd9f8a2d

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semantic_search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jarzembak/calibremcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 599 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to semantic_search, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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