sampling-and-indexing

sampling-and-indexing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 27 tokens per session (363 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A video-processing method that chooses which frames to sample and keeps frame numbers consistent across instructions, masks, and other outputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read video metadata, create sampled frame IDs, and define consistent interval keys.
Why use it?
It prevents downstream files from referring to different frame ranges or using incompatible indexes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to read video metadata, create sampled frame IDs, and define consistent interval keys.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/sampling-and-indexing
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,764 stars · on GitHub · skillsbench.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill sampling-and-indexing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 363 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.00363
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash 317046cac52d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sampling-and-indexing 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/dynamic-object-aware-egomotion/environment/skills/sampling-and-indexing/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

When to use

  • You need to decide a sampling stride/FPS and ensure all downstream outputs (interval instructions, per-frame artifacts, etc.) cover the same frame range with consistent indices.

Core steps

  • Read video metadata: frame count, fps, resolution.
  • Choose a sampling strategy (e.g., every 10 frames or target ~10–15 fps) to produce sample_ids.
  • Only produce instructions and masks for sample_ids; the max index must be < total_frames.
  • Use a strict interval key format such as "{start}->{end}" (integers only). Decide (and document) whether end is inclusive or exclusive, and be consistent.

Pseudocode

import cv2
VIDEO_PATH = "<path/to/video>"
cap=cv2.VideoCapture(VIDEO_PATH)
n=int(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT))
fps=cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS)
step=10  # example
sample_ids=list(range(0, n, step))
if sample_ids[-1] != n-1:
    sample_ids.append(n-1)
# Generate all downstream outputs only for sample_ids

Self-check list

  • sample_ids strictly increasing, all < total frame count.
  • Output coverage max index matches sample_ids[-1] (or matches your documented sampling policy).
  • JSON keys are plain start->end, no extra text.
  • Any per-frame artifact store (e.g., NPZ) contains exactly the sampled frames and no extras.
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. 9d ago First seen · 34 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 317046cac52d

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sampling-and-indexing is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,764 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 363 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 2026-09-03.