find-the-original-image

find-the-original-image is a skill for Claude Code from UseOSINT/Skills. It costs 141 tokens per session (2,815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reverse image searching, which means finding other copies of a picture and tracing it to an earlier publication. It uses services such as Yandex, Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, TinEye, and Baidu.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace photos, faces, logos, products, artwork, buildings, and profile images. It focuses on finding the earliest useful page rather than only a visual match.
Why use it?
It helps when a normal image search finds matches but does not reveal the earliest source, photographer, date, or caption. It also recommends choosing a search service and crop based on what appears in the image.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the useosint plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to trace photos, faces, logos, products, artwork, buildings, and profile images. It focuses on finding the earliest useful page rather than only a visual match.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/useosint/skills/find-the-original-image
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 UseOSINT/Skills --skill find-the-original-image
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UseOSINT/Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install useosint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,815 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
  • Socket pass 24 Aug 2026
  • Snyk warn 24 Aug 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 $0.00141 $0.02815
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01407
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00281

Measured 10d ago against content hash aa86cabffa6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-the-original-image 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.

skills/find-the-original-image/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find the original image

The goal is almost never "find a match". It is find the earliest publication and read its page. A match tells you the image exists elsewhere; the earliest page tells you the photographer, the date, the caption, and the names — which is what you actually pivot on.

The beginner mistake: uploading the full frame to one engine, getting nothing, and concluding the image is unindexed. Cropping to one distinctive object and re-searching finds things full-frame search cannot.

Pick your engine by what you are holding

You have Start with Why
A face Yandex Its index is built around facial similarity, so it returns different people who look alike and the same person in other photographs. No other general engine does this.
A face, and Yandex fails A dedicated face engine (see below) Only after you have cleared the legal and consent questions.
A street scene outside North America / Western Europe Yandex Deeply indexed Russian, Central Asian, Eastern European, Turkish and Chinese web content that Google under-crawls.
A product, book cover, artwork, plant, animal Google Lens Object and entity recognition, tied to Shopping and Knowledge Graph.
Text inside the image Google Lens It OCRs the frame and lets you search the extracted string. Often the text is the answer and the image search is irrelevant.
A landmark or a well-known building Google Lens Landmark classification is its strongest single feature.
A specific region of a cluttered photo Bing Visual Search Draw a box on the uploaded image and it re-searches only that region — the fastest crop-and-retry loop of any engine.
A press photo, meme, or anything you suspect is old TinEye The only major engine that sorts by oldest and that reliably surfaces modified copies.
Chinese-language or China-hosted content Baidu image search Coverage the others simply do not have.

Run at least three. They disagree constantly, and that disagreement is information: TinEye finding an exact copy from years back while Lens finds only recent reposts is the signature of recycled media.

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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 · 215 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A aa86cabffa6f

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find-the-original-image is a skill published in the GitHub repository UseOSINT/Skills (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,815 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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