embedding-strategies

embedding-strategies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 37 tokens per session (4,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to choosing and improving embedding models, which turn text into number-based representations so similar meanings can be found.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building semantic search or RAG systems, where an AI retrieves relevant information from documents before answering.
Why use it?
It helps choose suitable models, split documents into useful pieces, support multiple languages, and balance search quality, speed, and storage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when building semantic search or RAG systems, where an AI retrieves relevant information from documents before answering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/embedding-strategies
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NOMARJ/sigil --skill embedding-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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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 $0.00037 $0.04406
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02203
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00881
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00441

Measured 5d ago against content hash b198e336ed92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

embedding-strategies 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 5d ago.

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Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

packs/data/skills/llm/embedding-strategies/SKILL.md · 609 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 609 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Embedding Strategies

Guide to selecting and optimizing embedding models for vector search applications.

When to Use This Skill

  • Choosing embedding models for RAG
  • Optimizing chunking strategies
  • Fine-tuning embeddings for domains
  • Comparing embedding model performance
  • Reducing embedding dimensions
  • Handling multilingual content

Core Concepts

1. Embedding Model Comparison (2026)

Model Dimensions Max Tokens Best For
voyage-3-large 1024 32000 Claude apps (Anthropic recommended)
voyage-3 1024 32000 Claude apps, cost-effective
voyage-code-3 1024 32000 Code search
voyage-finance-2 1024 32000 Financial documents
voyage-law-2 1024 32000 Legal documents
text-embedding-3-large 3072 8191 OpenAI apps, high accuracy
text-embedding-3-small 1536 8191 OpenAI apps, cost-effective
bge-large-en-v1.5 1024 512 Open source, local deployment
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 384 256 Fast, lightweight
multilingual-e5-large 1024 512 Multi-language

2. Embedding Pipeline

Document → Chunking → Preprocessing → Embedding Model → Vector
                ↓
        [Overlap, Size]  [Clean, Normalize]  [API/Local]

Templates

Template 1: Voyage AI Embeddings (Recommended for Claude)

from langchain_voyageai import VoyageAIEmbeddings
from typing import List
import os

# Initialize Voyage AI embeddings (recommended by Anthropic for Claude)
embeddings = VoyageAIEmbeddings(
    model="voyage-3-large",
    voyage_api_key=os.environ.get("VOYAGE_API_KEY")
)

def get_embeddings(texts: List[str]) -> List[List[float]]:
    """Get embeddings from Voyage AI."""
    return embeddings.embed_documents(texts)

def get_query_embedding(query: str) -> List[float]:
    """Get single query embedding."""
    return embeddings.embed_query(query)

# Specialized models for domains
code_embeddings = VoyageAIEmbeddings(model="voyage-code-3")
finance_embeddings = VoyageAIEmbeddings(model="voyage-finance-2")
legal_embeddings = VoyageAIEmbeddings(model="voyage-law-2")

Read the full file on GitHub · 609 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. 5d ago First seen · 609 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A b198e336ed92

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embedding-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 4,406 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.