video-comparer

video-comparer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,162 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for comparing two videos, such as an original and a compressed copy, through measurements and visual frame comparisons.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for compression reviews, codec or bitrate comparisons, quality measurements such as PSNR and SSIM, and interactive before-and-after reports.
Why use it?
It shows how compression changes image quality, file size, bitrate, and other video properties.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,377 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/video-comparer
Any agent
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill video-comparer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin video-comparer/plugin install video-comparer after adding the marketplace above.

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 video-comparer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/video-comparer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/video-comparer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00073 $0.01162
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00581
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00116

Measured 3d ago against content hash b9029fec57bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

video-comparer scanned grade B 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 3d ago.

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

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

video-comparer/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Comparer

Overview

Compare two videos and generate an interactive HTML report analyzing compression results. The script extracts video metadata, calculates quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM), and creates frame-by-frame visual comparisons with three viewing modes: slider, side-by-side, and grid.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Comparing original and compressed videos
  • Analyzing video compression quality and efficiency
  • Evaluating codec performance or bitrate reduction impact
  • Users mention "compare videos", "video quality", "compression analysis", or "before/after compression"

Core Usage

Basic Command

python3 scripts/compare.py original.mp4 compressed.mp4

Generates comparison.html with:

  • Video parameters (codec, resolution, bitrate, duration, file size)
  • Quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, size/bitrate reduction percentages)
  • Frame-by-frame comparison (default: frames at 5s intervals)

Command Options

# Custom output file
python3 scripts/compare.py original.mp4 compressed.mp4 -o report.html

# Custom frame interval (larger = fewer frames, faster processing)
python3 scripts/compare.py original.mp4 compressed.mp4 --interval 10

# Batch comparison
for original in originals/*.mp4; do
    compressed="compressed/$(basename "$original")"
    output="reports/$(basename "$original" .mp4).html"
    python3 scripts/compare.py "$original" "$compressed" -o "$output"
done

Requirements

System Dependencies

FFmpeg and FFprobe (required for video analysis and frame extraction):

# macOS
brew install ffmpeg

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

# Windows
# Download from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
# Or use: winget install ffmpeg

Python 3.8+ (uses type hints, f-strings, pathlib)

Video Specifications

  • Supported formats: .mp4 (recommended), .mov, .avi, .mkv, .webm
  • File size limit: 500MB per video (configurable)
  • Processing time: ~1-2 minutes for typical videos; varies by duration and frame interval

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 3d ago First seen · 140 lines · 73 tokens per session scan B b9029fec57bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-comparer is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,377 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,162 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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