find-the-original-image

Trace an image to its earliest credible source.

image provenance

What it does

Finds an image's earliest known publication and extracts source details such as photographer, date, caption, and names.

When to use it

Use for reverse-image provenance, identification, repost detection, video-keyframe searching, and related fraud or media-verification investigations.

Give it an image or video; it searches multiple engines, examines candidate pages, and returns a graded provenance assessment.

What you provide

This skill

Yandex, Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, TinEye, and Baidu

Write

Uploads images to search engines

image-match pages

Read

Reads image-match pages

web archives

Read

Checks archived page captures

The workflow directs the agent to run this skill on the original before editing derivative copies.

ImageMagick 7 enables the documented cropping, mirroring, upscaling, denoising, rotation, and OCR-preparation recipes.

FFmpeg enables extracting keyframes and scene-change frames for the video-search workflow.

ExifTool enables the documented metadata inspection before editing images or extracting video evidence.