decklink-docs

decklink-docs is a skill for Claude Code from damionrashford/media-os. It costs 195 tokens per session (2,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation lookup tool for Blackmagic Design's DeckLink video hardware software development kits and related FFmpeg options. DeckLink SDKs are the programming interfaces used to capture and output video with Blackmagic devices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding C++ and COM-style API details, checking supported device and pixel-format options, looking up FFmpeg DeckLink settings, and reading or caching documentation pages.
Why use it?
It helps verify that a DeckLink interface, method, setting, or enum exists before writing integration code. It also provides the official documentation source for precise answers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the media-os plugin — 121 skills, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit It is for finding C++ and COM-style API details, checking supported device and pixel-format options, looking up FFmpeg DeckLink settings, and reading or caching documentation pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/damionrashford/media-os/decklink-docs
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 damionrashford/media-os --skill decklink-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damionrashford/media-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install media-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 121 skills, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 195 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,323 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.
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 $0.00195 $0.02323
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00232

Measured 9d ago against content hash 63fa73c1a2c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decklink-docs 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/decklinkdocs.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/decklink-docs/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Quick start

  • Find an API / interface / BMD enum: → Step 2 (search --query <term>)
  • Read one full section: → Step 3 (section --page <name> --id <anchor>)
  • Grab the whole page: → Step 4 (fetch --page <name>)
  • Prime the cache offline: → Step 5 (index)
  • Verify the ffmpeg decklink device options: → search on page ffmpeg-devices

When to use

  • User asks "what does IDeckLinkInput::StartStreams return?" or "what pixel formats does a Mini Recorder accept?"
  • Need to verify an interface / method / enum exists before recommending C++ / COM code.
  • Need the exact ffmpeg -f decklink option list (the ffmpeg decklink demuxer / muxer docs).
  • Need to cite the canonical Blackmagic SDK URL in a response.
  • Before writing any non-trivial DeckLink integration, check the current doc for the interface you're using.

Step 1 — Know the page catalog

The script only works against a fixed list of known Blackmagic / related doc pages. Get the list:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/decklinkdocs.py list-pages

The catalog groups into four areas:

Page family What's covered
blackmagic-developer / blackmagic-capture-playback Landing pages. The SDK ZIP is login-gated; URLs are catalog stubs.
ffmpeg-devices-decklink / ffmpeg-devices The ffmpeg decklink demuxer + muxer (options, examples).
decklink-sdk-readme-* Third-party mirrors of SDK sample names + API index (informational only).
bmdtools-github Third-party bmdtools (the tool that ships bmdcapture / bmdplay).

Read references/catalog.md for the full page list with descriptions and login-gated notes.


Step 2 — Search first (default workflow)

When the user names an interface, enum, method, or option, search across all pages:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/decklinkdocs.py search --query "IDeckLinkInput" --limit 5

Scope to a page for less noise:

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 192 lines · 195 tokens per session scan A 63fa73c1a2c1

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decklink-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/media-os (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 195 tokens to every session and 2,323 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.

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