video-frames

video-frames is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanueleielo/ciana-parrot. It costs 27 tokens per session (456 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video-processing skill that uses ffmpeg, a command-line tool for handling video and audio. It can extract still images, make thumbnail sheets, cut clips, inspect video details, extract audio, and convert formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to grab a frame at a chosen time, extract frames at intervals, create a contact sheet, cut a segment, inspect streams, save audio, or convert a video file.
Why use it?
Reviewing or reusing video often requires manual seeking and separate tools for basic file operations. This skill turns those jobs into repeatable commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to grab a frame at a chosen time, extract frames at intervals, create a contact sheet, cut a segment, inspect streams, save audio, or convert a video file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot/video-frames
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 emanueleielo/ciana-parrot --skill video-frames
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 456 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 $0.00027 $0.00456
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 10d ago against content hash f5e07cd33f02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-frames 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.

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.

skills/video-frames/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Video Frames

Extract frames, thumbnails, and clips from video files.

When to Use

  • "Extract a frame from this video"
  • "Create a thumbnail for this video"
  • "Get frames at 1fps from this clip"
  • "Cut a segment from this video"
  • Analyzing video content by extracting key frames

Extract a Single Frame

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:05 -frames:v 1 frame.png

-ss 00:00:05 = seek to 5 seconds.

Extract Frames at Interval

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=1" frames_%04d.png

fps=1 = one frame per second. Use fps=1/10 for one every 10 seconds.

Create a Contact Sheet (Grid of Frames)

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=1/30,scale=320:-1,tile=4x4" contact_sheet.png

One frame every 30 seconds, 4x4 grid.

Cut a Video Segment

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:01:00 -to 00:02:00 -c copy clip.mp4

Get Video Info

ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams input.mp4

Extract Audio

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vn -acodec mp3 audio.mp3

Convert Format

ffmpeg -i input.webm -c:v libx264 output.mp4

Notes

  • ffmpeg and ffprobe are available as execute commands
  • Always use -y flag to overwrite output files without prompting
  • For large videos, use -ss before -i for faster seeking
  • Output files are saved in the workspace directory
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 · 69 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A f5e07cd33f02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-frames is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanueleielo/ciana-parrot (77 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 456 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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