What is gemini-watch GEMINI.md?

Instructions for a Gemini CLI extension that analyzes videos from URLs or local files. It downloads videos, extracts still frames, and obtains or transcribes audio so Gemini can inspect the content.

Checking setup, parsing a video source and question, watching videos, reviewing extracted frames, and using captions or Whisper transcriptions.

It gives the command-line agent a repeatable process for turning video into visual and spoken information it can analyze.

How sudoax0n/gemini-watch configures Gemini CLI

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sudoax0n/gemini-watch. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sudoax0n/gemini-watch

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 766 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 766 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00766	$0.00766
Opus 5.5	$0.00306	$0.00306
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00153	$0.00153
Haiku 4.5	$0.00077	$0.00077

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9e68c54bbed4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

gemini-watch GEMINI.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

The script prints the working directory at the end: `Work dir: <path>`. If the user is done with their queries and won't ask follow-ups, delete it using `Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "<path>"` (or `rm -rf "<path>"` if in

GEMINI.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gemini Watch Extension

This extension gives Gemini CLI "eyes" to watch video inputs (URLs or local paths) natively. It downloads videos with yt-dlp, extracts frames with ffmpeg, and transcribes audio via captions or Whisper. It then presents these frames and transcripts so you can analyze the video.

Step 0 — Setup preflight (runs every invocation)

Before running /gemini-watch, verify dependencies and API keys:

py scripts/setup.py --check

Exit 0 (Success): Proceed to Step 1 silently (do not announce setup is complete).
Exit 2 (Missing binaries like ffmpeg, ffprobe, yt-dlp): Instruct the user to run the installer: py scripts/setup.py.
Exit 3 (Missing Whisper key): Run the installer to scaffold the dotenv file, then ask the user for a Groq API Key (preferred — console.groq.com/keys) or OpenAI API Key (platform.openai.com/api-keys) and write it into ~/.config/gemini-watch/.env as GROQ_API_KEY=... or OPENAI_API_KEY=....
Exit 4 (Both missing): Run the installer, then ask the user for a key.

Step 1 — Parse Input

Separate the video source (URL or path) from the user's question.

Step 2 — Run the Watch Script

Invoke the watch script passing the source verbatim:

py scripts/watch.py "<source>"

Useful Flags:

--start T / --end T — Zoom into a section. Accepts SS, MM:SS, or HH:MM:SS. Auto-fps will scale denser for focused sections.
--max-frames N — Lower the cap for a tighter token budget (default 80, max 100).
--resolution W — Frame width in pixels (default 512; increase to 1024 only if reading small on-screen text).
--no-whisper — Disable Whisper fallback.
--whisper groq|openai — Force a specific backend.

Step 3 — Read the Frames & Audio

The watch script outputs a list of JPEG frame paths and an optional audio file path. Use the read_file tool to read all of these JPEGs and the audio file in parallel.

Visuals: Reading JPEGs allows you to see the video content natively.
Audio: If a transcript is missing but an audio.mp3 file is provided, read it natively to listen or transcribe the content yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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.

2mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 766 tokens per session scan C 9e68c54bbed4

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gemini-watch GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sudoax0n/gemini-watch (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 766 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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