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Is this photo real?

When you see a suspicious photo online, it checks the source first, then the details, before jumping to conclusions.

Good for: People who often come across images online that might or might not be real

Read this first: The process uses other Skills from the same repo, such as find-the-original-image, so you can install them together.

What you can do once it's installed

Just say the “You say to AI” line, with your own details swapped in.

Is it an old photo being reshared?

You say to AI

Someone in a group chat says this is a photo of yesterday's typhoon. Can you check whether it's actually an old picture?

What AI does

  1. 1.Finds where the image first appeared
  2. 2.Compares the original caption and date
  3. 3.Checks whether the signs, weather and season match up

What you get

A fact-check record: what it found, and what's still uncertain.

Is it AI-generated?

You say to AI

This picture looks a bit off. Can you tell whether it was made by AI?

What AI does

  1. 1.Checks whether the lighting and shadow directions are consistent
  2. 2.Looks for objects whose structure doesn't make sense
  3. 3.Explains the limits of what detection tools can tell you

What you get

A judgment with its reasons laid out, not just "real" or "fake."

Want the original instructions? SKILL.md on UseOSINT/Skills

How to install

Which AI tool do you use?

  1. 1. Open the Terminal app on your computer, paste the line below and press Enter

    npx skills add UseOSINT/Skills@is-this-photo-real -g

    With no tool name, the command looks for the AI tools on your computer and asks where to install. If it says npx is missing or too old, install the latest Node.js (22 or newer) first.

    First time using the terminal?
    • How to open it: on a Mac, press ⌘ + Space and search “Terminal”. On Windows, search “PowerShell” in the Start menu. In Cursor, Trae or VS Code, use the menu Terminal → New Terminal.
    • Windows says “running scripts is disabled”: change npx at the start of the command to npx.cmd and try again.
    • If a list pops up: move with the arrow keys, press Space to tick the tools you want, then press Enter.
    • How to tell it worked: you'll see a success message. Reopen your AI tool and ask “What Skills do you have now?” to check.

    Don't feel like opening a terminal?

    Tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Trae can run commands themselves. Send them this:

    Please run this command in my terminal and tell me how it went: npx skills add UseOSINT/Skills@is-this-photo-real -g

  2. 2. Reopen your AI tool

    New Skills only get picked up after a restart.

  3. 3. Just say what you want

    Say it the way the examples do. To call it by name, say “Use is-this-photo-real to help me…”.

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