ptz-docs

ptz-docs is a skill for Claude Code from damionrashford/media-os. It costs 190 tokens per session (1,887 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation lookup tool for PTZ cameras, covering Sony VISCA control commands and ONVIF standards. PTZ means pan-tilt-zoom; VISCA and ONVIF are protocols cameras use for control and related services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find VISCA command bytes, check VISCA-over-serial or network details, identify ONVIF service endpoints, compare ONVIF profiles, and fetch canonical protocol documentation.
Why use it?
It provides a way to verify protocol details before sending commands, reducing errors caused by incorrect byte sequences, service names, or feature assumptions.

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 find VISCA command bytes, check VISCA-over-serial or network details, identify ONVIF service endpoints, compare ONVIF profiles, and fetch canonical protocol documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/damionrashford/media-os/ptz-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 ptz-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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,887 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 $0.00190 $0.01887
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.00944
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00189

Measured 11d ago against content hash bf58b8d7b63f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ptz-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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/ptzdocs.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/ptz-docs/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PTZ Docs

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Anti-hallucination guardrail for PTZ protocol work. Fetches and searches the canonical Sony VISCA PDFs and the onvif.org profile pages. Pair with ptz-visca (wire protocol) and ptz-onvif (SOAP control) for actual camera operations.

Quick start

  • Find a VISCA command byte sequence: → Step 2 (search --query "<command>")
  • Read an ONVIF profile feature list: → Step 3 (section --page onvif-profile-t --id <heading>)
  • Grab a full reference page: → Step 4 (fetch --page <name>)
  • Pre-cache everything for offline: → Step 5 (index)
  • See the full catalog: → Step 1 (list-pages)

When to use

  • Verify a VISCA command byte code (e.g. 8x 01 06 01 VV WW YY YY ZZ ZZ FF for Pan-Tilt Drive) before sending.
  • Confirm ONVIF service endpoint names (PTZ, Media, Imaging, Events, Recording, Analytics).
  • Check which ONVIF profile applies (S deprecated, T replaces S, G recording, M analytics, A/C/D access).
  • Cite the canonical Sony or ONVIF URL in a response.

Step 1 — Know the page catalog

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ptzdocs.py list-pages
Page What it is
visca-v2 Sony VISCA Command List v2.00 (interchangeable lens) PDF
visca-brc-h900 Sony BRC-H900 VISCA reference PDF
visca-srg-300h Sony SRG-300H VISCA-over-IP PDF (AES6 manual)
visca-ptzoptics PTZOptics community VISCA-over-IP reference PDF
onvif-profiles onvif.org Profiles hub (all profiles overview)
onvif-specifications onvif.org Profile Specifications index
onvif-profile-overview Profile feature overview PDF (v2.1)
onvif-profile-s Profile S (streaming — deprecated 2027-03-31)

Only the HTML pages are text-searchable. PDF pages return a URL + note (PDF bytes aren't parsed).

Step 2 — Search first

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ptzdocs.py search --query "Pan Tilt" --limit 5

Scope to a single page when you know which one:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ptzdocs.py search --query "GetProfiles" --page onvif-profile-s

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 156 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A bf58b8d7b63f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ptz-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/media-os (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 1,887 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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