video-codec-processing-workflow

video-codec-processing-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,347 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for using Apple's VideoToolbox framework to compress and decompress video, manage codec sessions, and handle video pixel buffers and compressed samples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or repair video encoders and decoders, configure codec sessions, manage pixel-buffer pools, and connect video data with Metal or Core Media.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose low-level encoding and decoding issues involving hardware support, timing, image formats, color, latency, or error codes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the apple-dev-skills plugin — 65 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install apple-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 65 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,347 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 $0.00083 $0.01347
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00674
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00135

Measured yesterday against content hash 7ee0f4cab189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-codec-processing-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 yesterday.

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-dev-skills/skills/video-codec-processing-workflow/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Codec Processing Workflow

Purpose

Guide low-level Apple video encode, decode, and pixel-buffer work while keeping ordinary reader/writer/export pipelines with AVFoundation and exact compressed sample timing with Core Media.

When To Use

  • Use for VTCompressionSession, VTDecompressionSession, codec properties, hardware selection, compressed callbacks, pixel-buffer pools, color/HDR attachments, multipass, latency, or codec OSStatus repair.
  • Recommend avfoundation-media-pipeline-workflow when AVAssetReader, AVAssetWriter, export, or general transcode behavior expresses the requirement.
  • Recommend coremedia-timing-samplebuffer-workflow when timestamps, format descriptions, sample dependencies, or synchronization are the primary bug.

Single-Path Workflow

  1. Classify the request:
    • compression or decompression
    • real-time or offline encode
    • hardware encoder/decoder selection
    • bitrate, keyframes, reordering, latency, profile, or entropy policy
    • multipass encoding
    • pixel-buffer allocation, pool, planes, or Metal/IOSurface interop
    • compressed sample, parameter-set, color/HDR, or attachment repair
    • lifecycle, callback, OSStatus, or performance diagnosis
  2. Apply the Apple docs gate:
    • read current VideoToolbox, Core Video, and Core Media documentation for the codec and platform
    • state the documented behavior relied on
    • apply ../../shared/references/apple-media-type-ownership.md
    • prefer AVFoundation unless the requirement needs low-level codec selection, latency, per-frame control, hardware policy, or callback access
  3. Establish the media contract:
    • codec, dimensions, profile/level, frame rate, timescale, pixel format, color primaries, transfer function, YCbCr matrix, dynamic range, alpha, bitrate, latency, and destination
    • input/output CMVideoFormatDescription, parameter sets, CMSampleBuffer, CVPixelBuffer, attachments, and timing ownership
  4. Configure and prepare one session owner:
    • inspect encoder/decoder availability and supported property dictionaries
    • create the session with explicit specifications and image-buffer attributes
    • set only supported properties and check every OSStatus
    • prepare the compression session when appropriate
  5. Submit and drain:
    • preserve frame identity, presentation timestamp, duration, and source lifetime
    • handle asynchronous callback status, info flags, delayed frames, dropped frames, dependencies, and output format changes
    • complete/finish delayed frames, end passes, wait for asynchronous work where required, then invalidate exactly once
  6. Return the documented behavior, AVFoundation-versus-VideoToolbox decision, capability evidence, session and buffer contract, color/timing policy, diagnostics, profiling evidence, and handoffs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. yesterday First seen · 91 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 7ee0f4cab189

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video-codec-processing-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,347 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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