change-detection

change-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from muend/geoai-skills. It costs 158 tokens per session (1,739 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to comparing observations from different dates or times to find real changes in places or landscapes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports time-series comparisons and change maps after the images or other observations have been made comparable.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish actual change from shifts in image alignment, lighting or sensor processing, seasonal differences, and classification mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the geoai plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit It supports time-series comparisons and change maps after the images or other observations have been made comparable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muend/geoai-skills/change-detection
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 muend/geoai-skills --skill change-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muend/geoai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install geoai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for change-detection

README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for change-detection

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,739 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
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 $0.00158 $0.01739
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.00870
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00174

Measured 11d ago against content hash fd0a6a28083e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change-detection 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 11d 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/change-detection/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Change Detection & Spatio-temporal Analysis

Purpose: separate real surface change from the four great impostors — misregistration, radiometric drift, phenology, and classification error. Every method below exists to control one of them; skipping the controls produces confident maps of nothing.

Preconditions (where change detection is won or lost)

Preconditions 1 and 2 are checked here but established elsewhere. When either fails, the owning skill leads and this skill resumes once comparable observations exist. Precondition 3 is this skill's own problem and is never a reason to route away.

  1. Co-registration: sub-pixel alignment between dates (AROSICS or manual tie-points). Half a pixel of shift creates edge-shaped phantom change everywhere. Verify: flicker-compare crisp features. For elevation surfaces or point clouds, vertical datum agreement, co-registration and the vertical-accuracy budget belong to point-cloud-lidar — a datum offset is not subsidence.
  2. Radiometric consistency: same processing level (surface reflectance), same sensor, same processing baseline. If any of the three differ, this is a harmonization problem, not a thresholding one: hand it to remote-sensing-analysis (HLS for Landsat↔Sentinel-2, relative normalization with PIFs, BOA_ADD_OFFSET across the Sentinel-2 2022 baseline change).
  3. Same season / phenological stage for bi-temporal work — a May vs September pair "detects" summer. If season can't be matched, use composites or time-series methods instead.
  4. Cloud/shadow masks intersected across dates; analyze only mutually valid pixels and report that coverage %.

Method selection

Situation Method
Two dates, continuous "how much" Index differencing (ΔNDVI, ΔNBR...) with statistical thresholding
Two dates, categorical "from-what-to-what" Post-classification comparison (only with strong classifiers)
Two dates, multivariate robust Change vector analysis (CVA); MAD/iMAD for sensor-robust detection
Dense stack, gradual + abrupt Trend + break analysis (BFAST/LandTrendr/CCDC family; at archive scale → google-earth-engine)
Structure change (buildings) DL bi-temporal segmentation (siamese U-Net) → geo-deep-learning
SAR pairs (clouds, disasters) Log-ratio of calibrated backscatter + speckle handling
Vector vintages (parcels, buildings) Geometry+attribute diff with tolerance (below)

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A fd0a6a28083e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

change-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository muend/geoai-skills (17 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 1,739 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.