blip-2-vision-language
75 / 100 · Review before installing
Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
Explains how to use Salesforce BLIP-2 (Q-Former bridging a frozen image encoder and an LLM such as OPT or FlanT5) through HuggingFace Transformers and LAVIS for image captioning, visual question answering, image-text matching, and feature extraction. Use when generating captions for images, building a VQA system, doing zero-shot image-text understanding without task-specific training, matching or retrieving images against text, or fitting a BLIP-2 model into limited GPU memory with INT8/INT4 qu…
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
Runs commands on your computer
Connects to the internet
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Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'blip-2-vision-language' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'blip-2-vision-language' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named blip-2-vision-language already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '802bbea44e551abac24d6856f83fc55149bbdba3' -- 'skills/blip-2-vision-language' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/blip-2-vision-language' ~/.agents/skills/'blip-2-vision-language' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'blip-2-vision-language' ~/.claude/skills/'blip-2-vision-language' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-13 | 802bbea | 75 |
| 2026-11-07 | 29fe36d | 100 |