explain-video

explain-video is a command for Claude Code from Galbaz1/video-research-mcp. It costs 17 tokens per session (594 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. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the gr plugin — 12 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

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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 12 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 594 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 $0.00594
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00297
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00059

Measured 10d ago against content hash 515727d6d7c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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 · 62 lines

What it actually says

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: Call content_analyze(url=url, instruction="Extract main topics, key facts, and narrative structure")

Topic text: Call research_deep(topic="<topic text — include research context for an educational explainer video. Focus on: key concepts, common misconceptions, real-world examples, and logical narrative flow>", scope="moderate")

Phase 2: Content Preparation

  1. Synthesize the research output into a structured markdown document:

    • Title and one-line summary
    • Key concepts (bulleted)
    • Narrative outline (numbered sections)
    • Facts and statistics with sources
    • Suggested visual metaphors
  2. Create the explainer project: explainer_create(project_id)

  3. Inject the content: explainer_inject(project_id, content, "research.md")

Phase 3: Pipeline

Run the full pipeline: explainer_generate(project_id)

Check status with explainer_status(project_id) and report progress.

Phase 4: Preview Render

Render a preview: explainer_render(project_id, resolution="720p", fast=True)

Report the output location to the user.

Output

Summarize:

  • Research findings (3-5 key points)
  • Project location and status
  • Render output path
  • Suggestions for improvement (refine, sound, music)
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. 10d 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 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 594 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 2026-08-30.