VLM-based OCR pipeline: model selection, prompts, architecture, evaluation.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Vlm OCR Pipeline

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill vlm-ocr-pipeline -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills vlm-ocr-pipeline --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/54-scdenney-open-science-skills/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline .claude/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
vlm-ocr-pipeline
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~3.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,881 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

VLM-based OCR pipeline: model selection, prompts, architecture, evaluation.

  • Works in 7 steps: Model Selection → Image Handling and Preprocessing → Prompt Engineering → …
  • Documents & Office work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions and Quality Checks
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Vlm OCR Pipeline is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. VLM-based OCR pipeline: model selection, prompts, architecture, evaluation.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `reference/prompt-and-schema.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Documents & Office work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/vlm-ocr-pipeline”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Model Selection
  2. Image Handling and Preprocessing
  3. Prompt Engineering
  4. Pipeline Architecture
  5. Batch Strategy and Resource Planning
  6. Accuracy Evaluation
  7. Reproducibility and Documentation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Vlm OCR Pipeline loads about 3.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,881 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~23
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,881 words (~3,666 tokens).

“For a worked language-specific transcription prompt (pre-reform Cyrillic) and a per-page JSON output schema with uncertain_spans, layout_markers, and flags, see reference/prompt-and-schema.md.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
vlm-ocr-pipeline
argument-hint
[describe your document corpus, languages, and compute environment]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/54-scdenney-open-science-skills/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • reference/prompt-and-schema.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Vlm OCR Pipeline

What does Vlm OCR Pipeline do?

VLM-based OCR pipeline: model selection, prompts, architecture, evaluation. Vlm OCR Pipeline is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. VLM-based OCR pipeline: model selection, prompts, architecture, evaluation.

When should I use Vlm OCR Pipeline?

Vlm OCR Pipeline fits situations like: documents & Office work in your project.

How do I install Vlm OCR Pipeline in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill vlm-ocr-pipeline -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/54-scdenney-open-science-skills/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Vlm OCR Pipeline in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill vlm-ocr-pipeline -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/54-scdenney-open-science-skills/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Vlm OCR Pipeline in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill vlm-ocr-pipeline -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline, .gemini/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline, .github/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline and .opencode/skills/vlm-ocr-pipeline in your project.

What does Vlm OCR Pipeline need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Vlm OCR Pipeline is instructions for the agent only.

Does Vlm OCR Pipeline access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Vlm OCR Pipeline safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Vlm OCR Pipeline use?

Vlm OCR Pipeline has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Vlm OCR Pipeline use?

About 3.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 15k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Vlm OCR Pipeline?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Vlm OCR Pipeline: M365 Agent Evaluator (microsoft/work-iq, 1k stars), Content Insight (zhu1090093659/dsh-trading, 238 stars), Article Frontmatter (adithya-s-k/FineEnvs, 461 stars) and Histolab (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Vlm OCR Pipeline?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.