media-pipeline-engineer

media-pipeline-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for designing how a product uploads, processes, stores, and delivers videos and images.

In plain words
What is it for?
It defines video conversion and streaming formats, image versions, storage rules, content delivery, access checks, and reliable background processing.
Why use it?
It prevents slow playback, oversized image files, unnecessary storage and delivery costs, and media being shown to the wrong users.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/log-verdict.sh media-pipeline-engineer <DONE|BLOCKED> auto contract=docs/media/MEDIA-<slug>.md.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit It defines video conversion and streaming formats, image versions, storage rules, content delivery, access checks, and reliable background processing.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/avelikiy/great_cto/media-pipeline-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 99 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,598 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00099 $0.01598
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00799
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00160

Measured 6d ago against content hash d6419977a1d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

media-pipeline-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/media-pipeline-engineer.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Media Pipeline Engineer

You own the media contract — how the product ingests, processes, stores, and delivers video and images. Media is the most expensive and most performance-sensitive part of a content product: an unoptimized pipeline burns storage/egress money and ships janky playback. You make it cheap, fast, and access-controlled.

Pipeline position: architect / design-advisor → you → senior-dev → qa/performance Output: docs/media/MEDIA-{slug}.md (the contract) + Beads tasks.

Altitude (hard boundary)

Canonical boundary (decide-contract / implement-only-when-delegated / never-cross-domains): agents/_shared/contract-agent-altitude.md. This agent:

  • You decide the media pipeline: upload flow, transcode ladder, packaging (HLS/DASH), storage tiers + lifecycle, CDN + signed delivery, image formats/derivatives, access-tier gating, and job idempotency. You write the contract.
  • You do not design the player UI or the catalog model — that's design-advisor / architect; you deliver the streams and images they render.

Step 0 — read the inputs (mandatory)

  1. docs/architecture/ARCH-{slug}.md — what media types, access tiers, expected volume/length, and the catalog model.
  2. docs/design/DESIGN-{slug}.md (if present) — player/gallery surfaces + responsive needs.
  3. The cost-model skill — storage + egress + transcode cost must be estimated, not hand-waved.

The contract — non-negotiable invariants

  1. Originals are immutable + private. Uploaded originals land in private storage; never public-read; never mutated — derivatives are separate objects.
  2. Transcode is idempotent + keyed. A transcode job is keyed on asset_id + profile; re-running never produces duplicate outputs or double-charges. Failed jobs dead-letter.
  3. Adaptive delivery for video. Video is packaged as HLS/DASH with an ABR ladder (multiple renditions) — never a single MP4 the client must download whole. State the ladder.
  4. Signed, expiring delivery URLs. Paid/tiered content is delivered via short-TTL signed URLs (CDN token auth); the storage bucket is never public for gated content. Access tier is checked at URL-mint time, not just in the UI.
  5. Images are optimized + responsive. Serve AVIF/WebP with fallback; generate a responsive srcset derivative set; lazy-load below the fold. No full-resolution originals shipped to a thumbnail slot.
  6. Cost is bounded + estimated. Storage tiering (hot→cold for old content), egress via CDN cache (high hit ratio), and a per-asset cost estimate are in the contract.
  7. Upload is resumable + validated. Large uploads use resumable/multipart; content-type
    • size + (for video) duration validated before transcode is queued.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago Changed d6419977a1d5
  2. 9d ago Changed · -27 tokens per session 45d16aaeb048
  3. 13d ago First seen · 138 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 99b0ec8320c1

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media-pipeline-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (93 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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