camera

camera is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from autonomous-ai/autonomous-os. It costs 89 tokens per session (2,320 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for the device's built-in camera, including taking snapshots, providing a live stream, and switching the camera on or off.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps answer questions about what the camera sees, take photos, start or stop a stream, and enable or disable the camera.
Why use it?
It lets the device look at something only when asked and provides a clear camera privacy control.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/autonomous-ai/autonomous-os/camera
Any agent
npx skills add autonomous-ai/autonomous-os --skill camera
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/autonomous-ai/autonomous-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,320 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 $0.00089 $0.02320
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01160
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00232

Measured 4d ago against content hash 87092ae71d44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

camera 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

**NEVER refuse a snapshot because camera is disabled.** The `/camera/snapshot` endpoint auto-enables the camera, captures the frame, then re-disables it automatically. Do NOT check `/camera` status before snapshot. Do NO

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s "http://127.0.0.1:5001/camera/snapshot?save=true&width=768&quality=75"
skills/camera/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Camera

Quick Start

Accesses the device's built-in camera at http://127.0.0.1:5001 to take snapshots or check the environment. Only use when the user explicitly asks you to look at something.

Already-captured frame (reuse, don't re-snapshot)

If the incoming turn contains a line like:

[vision-image] <absolute-path-to-a.jpg> (a photo was JUST captured ...)

a photo was already taken for this exact request by the realtime voice layer (it captured the frame, then handed the turn to you — e.g. it timed out mid-answer), and the OS layer delivers it with this very message — either as an [image description] line (when the main model is text-only, a vision model has already analyzed the photo for you) or as an attached image. Answer the visual question from that description/attachment. Do NOT call /camera/snapshot — re-snapshotting wastes time and may capture a different moment than what the user asked about. Do NOT read the path with a file tool — it is there for traceability only, and on text-only models a file-read image is silently dropped.

Only fall back to the snapshot endpoint below when there is no [vision-image] line.

Capture Protocol

Just call the snapshot endpoint — the server handles servo freeze, frame wait, and auto-enable if camera was disabled.

curl -s "http://127.0.0.1:5001/camera/snapshot?save=true&width=768&quality=75"

Returns JSON: {"path": ".../media/hal-snapshots/snap_1712567890123.jpg"}. Never hardcode a filename — always read path from the response.

width=768&quality=75 shrinks the JPEG (~50–80 KB instead of ~300–500 KB at full 1920×1080) so vision LLM uploads + tokenizes faster. 768 px wide is still enough to read text on a laptop screen and recognize people/objects. Do NOT remove these unless you specifically need a larger image.

No need to aim servo or sleep before snapshot — the server freezes servos automatically for a stable frame.

Never describe the view without an image

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 186 lines · 89 tokens per session scan C 87092ae71d44

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camera is a skill published in the GitHub repository autonomous-ai/autonomous-os (266 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,320 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (tells the agent never to refuse, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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