media

media is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core. It costs 63 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A media utility skill for checking, converting, creating thumbnails of, and extracting frames from video or image files. It uses FFmpeg, a tool for processing media files, and FFprobe, a tool for inspecting them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a digital content tool creates files, to probe media, convert image sequences to MP4, make thumbnails, transcode videos, or extract frames.
Why use it?
It lets agents inspect or repackage render and playblast files without requiring users to install FFmpeg manually. Fixed operations and overwrite checks help avoid unsafe file commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it after a digital content tool creates files, to probe media, convert image sequences to MP4, make thumbnails, transcode videos, or extract frames.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core/media
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 dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core --skill media
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 media

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 media

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 625 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00063 $0.00625
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00063

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4eeeed55a547, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

media scanned grade C with 2 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 7 executable files (scripts/_media_common.py, scripts/_vx_bootstrap.py, scripts/extract_frames.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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loonghao/vx/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loonghao/vx/main/install.sh | bash
python/dcc_mcp_core/skills/media/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Media

DCC-agnostic media utilities for render, playblast, flipbook, and review artifacts. The tools invoke FFmpeg and FFprobe through vx, so a fresh machine does not need users to install FFmpeg manually. If vx is not available on PATH, non-read-only media tools run the official loonghao/vx installer for the current platform and then retry the media command with the installed binary. media__probe remains side-effect-free: when vx is missing it returns vx_not_found instead of installing anything.

Use this skill after a DCC-native render/playblast/export tool has produced files on disk. Prefer native DCC skills for creating the render output, then use media__probe, media__sequence_to_mp4, media__thumbnail, media__transcode, or media__extract_frames to inspect or repackage the artifact.

Safety Contract

This skill intentionally exposes typed media operations, not a generic vx <command> runner. Every tool builds a fixed vx ffmpeg or vx ffprobe argument vector without shell=True, validates paths and enum fields, rejects option-like paths, and requires explicit overwrite intent before replacing outputs.

Configuration:

  • DCC_MCP_MEDIA_VX_BIN: explicit vx executable path or command name.
  • DCC_MCP_MEDIA_AUTO_INSTALL_VX=0: disable automatic vx installation for non-read-only media tools.
  • VX_INSTALL_DIR: override the official vx installer target directory.

Installer commands:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loonghao/vx/main/install.sh | bash
powershell -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loonghao/vx/main/install.ps1 | iex"

Use absolute paths where possible. Relative paths are resolved by the process running the DCC-MCP server, which may not be the same working directory as the agent.

Files

What ships with it

8 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 · 61 lines · 63 tokens per session scan C 4eeeed55a547

Subscribe to this mod's changes

media is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core (42 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 625 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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