watch

watch is a command for coding agents from erhangundogan/videre. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,901 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A long-running command that repeatedly scans a photo folder and updates its stored information. It can process images, faces, HEIC previews, locations, and stale entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor a photo folder, periodically scan new images, create HEIC thumbnails, look up place names, or prune stale records.
Why use it?
It keeps a photo library updated automatically instead of requiring each maintenance step to be run by hand.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/erhangundogan/videre/watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/erhangundogan/videre

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,901 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.01901
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00190

Measured 4d ago against content hash d20b21668d7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watch 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 4d 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.

docs/src/content/docs/commands/watch.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A long-running loop that keeps the pipeline populated, so readers always see fresh data without you rerunning things by hand. No server and no UI: it runs in the foreground logging to stderr until you stop it with Ctrl-C.

videre watch ~/Photos                  # scan, faces, HEIC cache, and locations every 5 minutes
videre watch                           # same, using the folder from `videre config set path`
videre watch ~/Photos --scan --faces   # only these stages
videre watch ~/Photos --heic           # only pre-convert HEIC thumbnails
videre watch ~/Photos --location       # only look up place names
videre watch ~/Photos --prune          # also clean stale entries (off by default)
videre watch ~/Photos --interval 60    # seconds between cycles (default 300)
videre watch ~/Photos --silent         # no per-cycle output
videre watch ~/Photos --db ~/photos.db # use a specific database
videre watch ~/Photos --type image     # only watch for new images
videre watch ~/Photos --path ~/Photos/Inbox # only watch one subfolder

:::tip These filters work the same way across commands, and combine. See scoping a run. :::

--output-sqlite still works as an alias for --db, the name it had originally. Existing scripts do not need changing.

Stages

If none of --scan, --faces, --heic or --location are given, all four run. --prune and --export-xmp are the exceptions: they are opt-in and never default on.

Stage What it does
--scan Same scan and hash pipeline as videre scan, including reading marks from XMP (--xmp db|file|newest, see scan)
--faces Detects faces in new images, then regroups everything
--heic Pre-converts and caches HEIC thumbnails
--location Looks up place names for GPS coordinates that have none
--prune Same cleanup as videre prune
--export-xmp Writes labels to .xmp sidecars, same as videre export

The export stage keeps sidecars current while you work in another tool. It is opt-in per run with --export-xmp, or always-on by setting videre config set export-xmp-on-watch true. It merges into existing sidecars, so it never clobbers another tool's data.

Note that embed and classify are not stages. Semantic search data is not kept current automatically; run videre embed yourself after adding a batch of photos.

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 4d ago First seen · 187 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A d20b21668d7f

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watch is a command published in the GitHub repository erhangundogan/videre (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,901 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.