watch

A video-reading command that processes a video or Loom recording into a transcript, selected frames, and text shown on screen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract a video's summary, timeline, transcript, key frames, and on-screen text.
Why use it?
It saves you from watching the entire recording manually when you need its spoken content or visual details.

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/webdevbar/watch-video/watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WebDevBar/watch-video
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 211 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 $0.00017 $0.00211
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured yesterday against content hash b77b210fa7f1, 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 yesterday.

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/watch.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Run the watch-video wrapper on the user's video and then read the result.

⚠️ Privacy: local on Claude Code/Codex. The claude.ai web surface is hosted — non-sensitive / public videos only.

Steps:

  1. Run: uv run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/watch-run.py" $ARGUMENTS (The wrapper enables tuned OCR by default and prints the output directory. ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is set by Claude Code to the installed plugin dir.)
  2. Read, in order (skip any missing): SUMMARY.md, timeline.md, transcript.md, frames/*.jpg, frames/ocr-combined.md from the printed directory.
  3. If the user asked for --ephemeral: after reading, run uv run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/watch-run.py" --clean <printed-output-dir>.
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. yesterday First seen · 18 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A b77b210fa7f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

watch is a command published in the GitHub repository WebDevBar/watch-video (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 211 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.