obs-docs

obs-docs is a skill for Claude Code from damionrashford/media-os. It costs 149 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An official-documentation lookup tool for OBS Studio, software used to record and livestream video. It searches and fetches OBS API, plugin, scripting, and architecture documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building OBS plugins, scripts, or clients that communicate with OBS through obs-websocket, or when checking how OBS is structured.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of using an API function, callback, event, or websocket field that does not exist or has the wrong interface.

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 when building OBS plugins, scripts, or clients that communicate with OBS through obs-websocket, or when checking how OBS is structured.

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

agentmods badge for obs-docs

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for obs-docs

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,591 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 $0.00149 $0.02591
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00259

Measured 10d ago against content hash 81bee0921ca9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obs-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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/obsdocs.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/obs-docs/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OBS Docs

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Quick start

  • Find an obs_ function / callback / event: → Step 2 (search --query <term>)
  • Read the full section for an API: → Step 3 (section --page <page> --id <anchor>)
  • Grab a doc page: → Step 4 (fetch --page <name>)
  • Prime cache for offline use: → Step 5 (index)

When to use

  • User asks "what does obs_source_create take?" or "what's the signature of obs_hotkey_register_frontend?"
  • Need to verify an API name exists before recommending it (prevents hallucinated OBS calls).
  • Need to look up an obs-websocket Request / Event / OpCode field.
  • Before writing an OBS plugin, script, or obs-websocket client: confirm the real API surface.
  • Need the canonical URL to cite an OBS doc.

Step 1 — Know the page catalog

Only the pages below are covered. Get the list:

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

Pick the right page for the question:

Question Page
How does OBS's architecture work? backend-design
Plugin authoring / source / output / encoder / service module plugins
Qt frontend integration (menus, docks) frontends
Graphics API (effects, shaders, textures) graphics
Python/Lua scripting inside OBS scripting
Core lifecycle + global funcs (obs_startup, obs_shutdown) reference-core
Module loader / obs_module_* macros reference-modules
obs_source, obs_output, obs_encoder, obs_service, obs_scene, obs_data, obs_hotkey reference-core-objects
bmalloc, bstrdup, dstr, lists, config, threading, darrays reference-libobs-util
signal_handler, calldata, procedural callbacks reference-libobs-callback
gs_* graphics (textures, effects, vertex buffers, shaders) reference-libobs-graphics
obs_source_frame, obs_source_audio, media IO, video frames reference-libobs-media-io
obs_frontend_* (Qt dock, scene switching, recording control, events) reference-frontend-api
Install OBS on macOS / Windows / Linux wiki-install
Build a plugin from scratch (CMake, GitHub template) plugintemplate-readme
obs-websocket Requests / Events / OpCodes / Identify handshake obs-websocket-protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 10d ago First seen · 221 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 81bee0921ca9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obs-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/media-os (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 2,591 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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