explain-video

explain-video is a command for Claude Code from Galbaz1/video-research-mcp. It costs 17 tokens per session (2,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command workflow that researches a topic or analyzes a YouTube video or webpage, then prepares material for an educational explainer video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract concepts and talking points, organize sourced facts into Markdown, and suggest visual metaphors for a video project.
Why use it?
It brings research, key facts, narrative structure, and visual ideas into one preparation process.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the gr plugin — 27 skills, 17 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract concepts and talking points, organize sourced facts into Markdown, and suggest visual metaphors for a video project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/galbaz1/video-research-mcp/explain-video
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galbaz1/video-research-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 17 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,412 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 $0.00017 $0.02412
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00965
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00482
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00241

Measured 22d ago against content hash d1186b0c6200, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-video 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 22d 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.

commands/explain-video.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explain Video: $ARGUMENTS

Research a topic or analyze content, then synthesize it into an explainer video.

Parse Arguments

$ARGUMENTS should contain:

  1. A URL (YouTube, webpage) or topic to research
  2. A project ID for the explainer video

If only one argument, use it as both the research subject and derive the project ID.

Phase 1: Research & Analysis

Based on input type:

YouTube URL: Call video_analyze(url, instruction="Extract key concepts, structure, and talking points for creating an educational explainer video")

Webpage URL or supplied evidence: Prepare research_execute with mode retrieval, supplied, or hybrid, explicit permitted URLs/domains or the original EvidencePacket and source_root, and dry_run: true. Execution needs actual source-access/submission authority and a shared call/token/source allowance. Use only returned retained sources; keep rejected and failed branches visible.

Topic text: Select the route explicitly. Use research_execute in model_only mode for an unverified model draft; label its findings accordingly. For fresh external facts, use authorized research_web and poll the exact job, or provide permitted seed URLs to the bounded retrieval route. Hosted research does not expose enforceable internal search/token/USD ceilings. A citation URI from hosted research is a lead until the original source bytes are retained. Never describe research_deep as observed retrieval: its three model calls are model-only synthesis, and model-written tiers do not establish CONFIRMED facts.

Use the MCP tool's typed request schema and returned recovery/source report as the executable contract. Repository documentation at docs/integrations/grounded-research.md is an optional checkout-only reference. A dry plan and the executed request have distinct run identities. Save the executed run_id; replay its same request to inspect an accepted terminal packet or an ambiguous failure without automatically resubmitting paid work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 22d ago Changed · +127 lines d1186b0c6200
  2. 24d ago Changed · -1 lines eff065c7ee24
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 515727d6d7c1

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explain-video is a command published in the GitHub repository Galbaz1/video-research-mcp (23 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,412 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.