compressor-workflow

A safety guide for using Apple Compressor, an app that converts and packages video or audio for delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for individual exports, batch conversions, custom presets, watch folders, Final Cut Pro or Motion handoffs, failed jobs, and checking delivery files.
Why use it?
It helps prevent source media from being altered and reduces mistakes with presets, output destinations, batches, and existing files.

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/gaelic-ghost/socket/compressor-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill compressor-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 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 $0.00062 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 127ad28ec8ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compressor-workflow 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.

plugins/apple-creator-studio-skills/skills/compressor-workflow/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compressor Workflow

Use this skill for Compressor app operation, not low-level codec code or an assumed Compressor command-line interface.

Source Check

Open Compressor Help or search the local Tips/Help Viewer catalog for Compressor. Confirm that the guide matches the installed app/version before relying on a menu path, preset behavior, or automation feature. Read references/job-and-delivery-contract.md for the shared preflight and verification contract.

Workflow

  1. Classify the task: one-off export, batch, preset customization, destination setup, watch-folder decision, Final Cut Pro/Motion handoff, failed job, or artifact verification.
  2. Establish the artifact contract: source location, whether it must stay untouched, codec/container, dimensions, frame rate, audio layout/sample rate, captions/HDR/metadata requirements, destination, overwrite rule, and delivery target.
  3. Inspect the active Compressor project before changing it: selected jobs, applied settings, destinations, job actions, output names, and any warning or missing-media state.
  4. Preserve source state. Prefer a new project or duplicate when altering an existing reusable preset/job. Do not relink, remove jobs, replace source media, or overwrite a prior delivery without a visible user confirmation.
  5. Choose the smallest correct setting/preset and destination. Explain any tradeoff between delivery requirements, quality, file size, compatibility, and time. Do not invent a platform specification the user has not supplied.
  6. Before submitting, state the exact input, output name, destination, overwrite behavior, setting, and any batch/watch-folder effect. Get confirmation before starting a render, transcode, or operation that can overwrite an artifact.
  7. Monitor the job and stop on an unexpected alert, missing-media/extension condition, failed status, or output-location mismatch. Report the concrete job, setting, destination, and error context.
  8. Verify the completed artifact against the contract: existence, destination, file name, duration, dimensions, codec/container, audio, and any required captions/HDR/metadata. Record limits that require target-platform testing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 39 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 127ad28ec8ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compressor-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 713 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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