gstreamer-docs

gstreamer-docs is a skill for Claude Code from damionrashford/media-os. It costs 180 tokens per session (3,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference tool for searching and reading the official GStreamer documentation. GStreamer is a framework for building software that handles audio and video as connected processing stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up GStreamer elements and properties, check available plugins, understand tools such as gst-launch-1.0, or prepare a non-trivial pipeline.
Why use it?
It helps verify elements, settings, signals, and plugin packages before suggesting or building a media pipeline.

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 Use it to look up GStreamer elements and properties, check available plugins, understand tools such as gst-launch-1.0, or prepare a non-trivial pipeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/damionrashford/media-os/gstreamer-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 gstreamer-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.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,102 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.
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 $0.00180 $0.03102
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01551
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00310

Measured 11d ago against content hash 823426dee373, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gstreamer-docs 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/gstdocs.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

**Solution:** Run `gst-inspect-1.0 <name>` to confirm the element exists and see its plugin. Then `search --query "<name>"` across the whole catalog to find the right plugin page. If it's a Rust plugin not in our list ye
.claude/skills/gstreamer-docs/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GStreamer Docs

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Quick start

  • Find an element / property / signal: -> Step 2 (search --query <term>)
  • Read the full docs for one element: -> Step 3 (element --name <name>)
  • Read one section by anchor: -> Step 4 (section --page <page> --id <anchor>)
  • Grab a whole page: -> Step 5 (fetch --page <name>)
  • Prime cache for offline use: -> Step 6 (index)

When to use

  • User asks "what does element X do?" or "what properties does webrtcbin expose?"
  • Need to verify an element name, property, pad, or signal exists before recommending it.
  • Need the canonical gstreamer.freedesktop.org URL to cite in a response.
  • Before writing any non-trivial gst-launch-1.0 pipeline, verify the element and its caps/properties.
  • Need to know which plugin package an element ships in.

Step 1 — Know the page catalog

The script targets a fixed list of plugin-index pages + top-level guides. Get the list:

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

Common picks:

Question Page
"What does filesrc / queue / tee / capsfilter do?" coreelements
"How do I use playbin3 / decodebin3 / uridecodebin3?" playback
"RTSP client / server elements?" rtsp, rtspserver
"HLS / DASH muxing / sinks?" hls, dash
"WebRTC — webrtcbin (C) vs webrtcsink (Rust)?" webrtc, rswebrtc
"SRT source / sink?" srt
"x264enc / x265enc / VP9 options?" x264, x265, vpx
"NVENC / NVDEC in GStreamer?" nvcodec
"MP4 / QuickTime mux / demux?" isomp4
"Matroska / WebM mux?" matroska
"V4L2 webcam?" v4l2
"OpenGL elements?" opengl
"gst-launch-1.0 syntax rules?" gst-launch
"gst-inspect-1.0 output fields?" gst-inspect
"Core GObject API / GstElement / GstPad / GstCaps?" gstreamer
"Base classes for writing elements (GstBaseSrc etc.)?" base

Read references/pages.md for the full catalog.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 11d ago First seen · 246 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 823426dee373

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gstreamer-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/media-os (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 3,102 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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