observer

observer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hec-ovi/observer-skill. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,584 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of observer, MIT.

A study tool for understanding videos and podcasts. It transcribes the recording, prepares explanations and visuals, and answers questions about the exact point where you pause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Studying lectures, interviews, tutorials, and podcasts; asking about a moment in the recording; and creating charts to clarify ideas.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search through a long recording or explain difficult sections from memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the observer plugin — 1 skill 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/hec-ovi/observer-skill/observer
Any agent
npx skills add hec-ovi/observer-skill --skill observer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hec-ovi/observer-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install observer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 observer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hec-ovi/observer-skill/observer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hec-ovi/observer-skill/observer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,584 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00110 $0.01584
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00158

Measured 3d ago against content hash ab0ccabb6034, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observer 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to observer — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/observer/skills/observer/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

observer

The user is about to watch something hard. Your job runs in two halves: prepare everything before they press play, then answer instantly while they watch. The whole point of the first half is that the second half has no waiting in it.

Every tool below is mcp__observer__<name>. Each result tells you the phase you are in, so you never have to guess where you are.

Start

The user You
pastes a link and wants it explained open with the url
already has the page open and gives you a session id status with that id
says "wait, what did he mean there" mid-session you are already in the loop; see Session

open takes hasAds, extraKnowledge, and toolkit. If the user did not say, ask in one short line before opening: does the video carry sponsor reads, do you want research, do you want visuals. Then open and do not ask again.

If they said what they want from the video ("I only care about the training setup"), pass it as userPrompt. It outranks everything you would otherwise decide.

Prepare

1. Transcribing. Call status until the phase moves on. Nothing else to do; do not narrate the wait. A three-hour podcast with captions takes seconds, without captions it takes minutes and the progress is real.

2. Read all of it. transcript in pages until you have the whole thing. Read it before you write anything. When status reports source.hasAds, read references/ads.md first: it is how to tell a sponsor read from the talk, and it holds for every step after this one. Then read references/study-plan.md and write the concept list with concepts.

3. Research, only when settings.extraKnowledge is on. Read references/research.md. Use your own search tools, and attach what you find with note. Look specifically for what moved after the recording date: that is where you add value the video cannot.

4. Visuals, only when settings.toolkit is on. Read references/visual-plan.md to decide what earns a picture, then references/artifacts.md for how to write one. build compiles it, runs it in the real page, and hands you back either line-accurate errors or a PNG path. Read the PNG. If it looks wrong, fix it and build again with the same id. link binds it to its concept.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 133 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A ab0ccabb6034

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observer is a skill published in the GitHub repository hec-ovi/observer-skill (0 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,584 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to observer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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