setup-watch-skill

setup-watch-skill is a command for coding agents from oxbshw/watch-skill. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,007 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A one-time setup command for Watch Skill, a tool that helps an AI agent inspect and answer questions about videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after installation to enable video watching commands and MCP tools, install components such as ffmpeg and yt-dlp, and stop with a reported fix if setup fails.
Why use it?
It installs the required engine and video utilities, connects the tool to detected AI agents, creates backups, and configures a vision provider in one setup flow.

Command

Part of the watch-skill plugin — 10 skills, 1 command, 27 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/oxbshw/watch-skill/setup-watch-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxbshw/watch-skill

Or install watch-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 command, 27 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,007 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00055 $0.01007
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00101

Measured 4d ago against content hash 90af237c385f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

setup-watch-skill scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

Windows, or `curl -fsSL https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh` on macOS/Linux),

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Windows, or `curl -fsSL https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh` on macOS/Linux),
commands/setup-watch-skill.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/setup-watch-skill

Set up Watch Skill end-to-end so /watch and the watch-skill MCP tools work in this agent and every other agent on the machine. Do the steps in order and stop at the first hard failure, reporting the fix the tool prints.

Step 1 — Ensure the engine is installed

Watch Skill's brains are the watch-skill Python CLI; this plugin is the thin Claude Code surface. Check whether it's already on PATH:

watch-skill --version

If that fails, install it with uv (which also bootstraps its own Python — no system Python needed). Prefer uv; fall back to pipx, then pip:

# preferred: isolated tool install from PyPI
uv tool install "watch-skill[standard]" \
  || pipx install "watch-skill[standard]" \
  || pip install --user "watch-skill[standard]"

standard is frames, retrieval, and MCP. Use watch-skill[all] instead to add OCR, local Whisper, the REST surface, and the browser THE LOOP drives — larger, and not needed to answer questions about a video. Whichever you pick, doctor names anything missing and prints the command that adds it.

If uv itself is missing, install it first (winget install astral-sh.uv on Windows, or curl -fsSL https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh on macOS/Linux), open a fresh shell so PATH updates, then re-run the install line above.

Re-run watch-skill --version and confirm it prints a version before going on.

Step 2 — Self-healing doctor

watch-skill doctor

doctor downloads ffmpeg / yt-dlp into a managed bin dir on first run. Exit 0 means ready. If it reports fixes, let it apply them and re-run once. Only surface a check to the user if it still fails after that.

Step 3 — Register the MCP server in every agent

watch-skill setup --yes

This detects Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI, backs up each config it touches, and writes the watch-skill MCP server into all of them with a surgical merge (no existing keys are dropped). It prints exactly which files it changed and where the backups are.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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 · 101 lines · 55 tokens per session scan C 90af237c385f

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setup-watch-skill is a command published in the GitHub repository oxbshw/watch-skill (330 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,007 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.