watch-video

watch-video is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/makerskills. It costs 219 tokens per session (3,991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for extracting information from videos, including YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom recordings, social-media videos, and local video files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to obtain a transcript, identify chapters, inspect selected frames, or combine spoken and visual analysis at different levels of detail.
Why use it?
It lets you work from a video's words and important visual moments without manually watching and documenting the whole recording.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the makerskills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

not rated 803repo +29 5d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: warn 219 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to obtain a transcript, identify chapters, inspect selected frames, or combine spoken and visual analysis at different levels of detail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/watch-video
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 coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill watch-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install makerskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 219 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,991 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 11 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 11 Jul 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 206
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 219
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00219 $0.03991
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.01996
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00798
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00399

Measured 11d ago against content hash 11c3638c9872, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watch-video scanned grade A 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

FILE_URI=$(curl -s -X POST "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" \
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/watch-video — Transcribe and analyze any video at the depth you choose

Replaces and broadens the prior youtube-transcript skill. YouTube is now one of many sources; depth is user-controlled.

Step 1 — Parse input

Accept:

  • YouTube: full URL, youtu.be/<id>, youtube.com/shorts/<id>, raw 11-char ID
  • Loom: loom.com/share/<id> or loom.com/embed/<id>
  • Vimeo: vimeo.com/<id>
  • Riverside: download URL or local file
  • Zoom: local .mp4 from a downloaded recording
  • X / IG / TikTok video: URL — defers to social-fetch for metadata, uses yt-dlp for the file
  • Local file: any path to an .mp4 / .mov / .webm / .mkv

Detect source from URL pattern or file extension. If ambiguous, ask.

Step 2 — Parse depth mode

Invocation Mode What you get
/watch-video <url> transcript (default) Clean text, metadata, optional chapters
/watch-video <url> transcript transcript Same as default
/watch-video <url> visual visual Transcript + frames at intervals + Claude vision pass identifying key moments
/watch-video <url> multimodal multimodal Native video to Gemini (if $GEMINI_API_KEY), else dense Claude vision frame-by-frame

If the depth isn't specified and the video is >10 minutes, ask before defaulting (visual/multimodal cost real money on long videos).

Step 3 — Pull metadata

For URL sources, use yt-dlp:

yt-dlp --print "%(title)s|%(uploader)s|%(duration_string)s|%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s|%(description)s" \
  --print "%(chapters)j" --skip-download "<url>"

Capture: title, uploader/channel, duration, upload date, description (first paragraph), chapters (JSON or null).

For local files, use ffprobe:

ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "<file>"

Step 4 — Build workdir

~/Documents/videos/<source>-<slug>-<date>/

Where:

  • source: youtube / loom / vimeo / riverside / zoom / local
  • slug: kebab-case of title (first 4–6 words, max 50 chars)
  • date: YYYY-MM-DD

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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. 11d ago First seen · 322 lines · 219 tokens per session scan A 11c3638c9872

Subscribe to this mod's changes

watch-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/makerskills (803 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 219 tokens to every session and 3,991 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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