vrs-cli

A command-line tool for checking, inspecting, and changing VRS files, the container format used for timestamped sensor recordings such as Aria recordings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check files for corruption, inspect streams and record counts, or extract, copy, and slice streams.
Why use it?
It handles file-level VRS work without requiring tools that understand Aria-specific camera data or calibration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins/vrs-cli
Any agent
npx skills add facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins --skill vrs-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,032 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00130 $0.01032
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00516
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 17727cb906a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vrs-cli 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 2d 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.

projectaria_ark_plugin/skills/vrs-cli/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Native VRS CLI

VRS is Meta's open container format for timestamped multi-modal sensor data — every Aria recording is one VRS file. The native VRS library ships a CLI (vrs) for inspecting and manipulating VRS files at the file / stream level. It is a separate codebase from projectaria-tools (PAT) and is not Aria-aware.

VRS source + install instructions: https://github.com/facebookresearch/vrs Aria-specific VRS notes: https://facebookresearch.github.io/projectaria_tools/gen2/technical-specs/vrs/data-format

When to use VRS CLI vs PAT vs vrs-health-check

Goal Use
Validate that a VRS file is not corrupted vrs check
Inspect a VRS file (streams, record counts) vrs CLI
Slice / extract / copy streams at the file level vrs CLI
Read decoded sensor data (images, IMU samples in physical units) PAT — see the projectaria-tools skill
Anything that needs camera calibration / projection PAT
Aria-specific recording quality (drop rates, timing checks) vrs-health-check (a different tool, despite the name overlap)

The CLI does not understand Aria-specific semantics — StreamId→label mapping, the factory_calibration JSON, profile names, MPS outputs, etc. It only knows about VRS streams and records.

Install

The CLI lives in the VRS GitHub repository. Follow the README at https://github.com/facebookresearch/vrs for current build and install instructions — they cover supported package managers, building from source, and per-OS dependencies. Use the latest main if you hit unsupported-feature errors against a newer Aria recording.

HEVC decoder is required for image-related operations. Aria VRS files use H.265 / HEVC for camera streams. On most Linux distros, installing ffmpeg from the system package manager pulls in HEVC support. See the VRS README for the specific FFmpeg version / build flags it expects.

Usage — defer to --help

The CLI is self-documenting. Always run:

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 17727cb906a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vrs-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,032 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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