Find the original image: reverse image search playbook
Trace any image to its earliest publication with a multi-engine reverse image search method — Yandex, Google Lens, Bing Visual, TinEye, Baidu
- What
- Trace any image to its earliest publication with a multi-engine reverse image search method — Yandex, Google Lens, Bing Visual, TinEye, Baidu
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — the skill is guidance only. Authorized use only: legitimate investigations (fraud and scam investigation, disinformation and media verification, counterfeit and brand-infringement work, insurance claim review) — face-search engines carry biometric-data legal exposure (GDPR Article 9, BIPA, CUBI); never identify strangers, protest crowds, or private individuals; read the skill's legal notes first
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — ⚠️ **Security warning / Avertissement de sécurité — AUTHORIZED USE ONLY / USAGE AUTORISÉ UNIQUEMENT** : this skill teaches reverse image search as an OSINT tradecraft — which engines to start with depending on what you're holding (Yandex for faces and non-Western scenes, Google Lens for products and OCR text, Bing Visual for region-crop retries, TinEye for oldest-first sorting of press photos, Baidu for China-hosted content), the high-yield crop-and-re-search method, flip-and-retry against mirrored reposts, keyframe extraction for video, and a confidence-grading ladder from "match only" up to "confirmed original source" — with worked examples, common failure modes (stock photos, AI-generated images with no origin to find, leaking client images to commercial engines), and pivots to sibling OSINT skills. **Kept by editorial choice as a borderline case: the guide itself frames authorized, legitimate use only** (scam and fake-profile investigation, disinformation and media verification, counterfeit and brand-infringement work, insurance claim review), and its face-search section carries explicit legal notes — facial templates are biometric data under GDPR Article 9, Illinois BIPA and Texas CUBI; PimEyes is positioned by its own terms for searching your own face — and draws a hard line at identifying strangers, protest crowds or private individuals. Defensive/legitimate use only. Honest caveats: MIT-licensed. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Discovered via skills.sh.
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Prerequisites: none — the skill is guidance only. Authorized use only: legitimate investigations (fraud and scam investigation, disinformation and media verification, counterfeit and brand-infringement work, insurance claim review) — face-search engines carry biometric-data legal exposure (GDPR Article 9, BIPA, CUBI); never identify strangers, protest crowds, or private individuals; read the skill's legal notes first Install "Find the original image: reverse image search playbook" for me. It teaches multi-engine reverse image search for provenance work: which engine to start with (Yandex, Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, TinEye, Baidu), crop-and-re-search, flip-and-retry, video keyframes, oldest-first sorting, confidence grading from match-only to confirmed original source — by @useosint, MIT-licensed. Repository: https://github.com/useosint/skills/blob/main/skills/find-the-original-image/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "find-the-original-image". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. read its legal notes on face-search engines before any use; keep authorized, documented purposes only). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.