media-validator

media-validator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HelixDevelopment/code. It costs 86 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for checking whether a recording, screenshot, image, video, or audio capture actually shows the expected result. It requires reading the content and comparing it with stated expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate terminal recordings, screenshots, videos, or audio by extracting their visible or spoken content. It produces a PASS or FAIL judgment with evidence for each expected result.
Why use it?
A file existing or having the right length does not prove that a feature worked. This approach catches empty captures, errors, unfinished processes, and claims of success without evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash skills/media-validator/media-validator.sh <file> [expected-pattern...].

Good fit Use it to validate terminal recordings, screenshots, videos, or audio by extracting their visible or spoken content. It produces a PASS or FAIL judgment with evidence for each expected result.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HelixDevelopment/code
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/helixdevelopment/code/media-validator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 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 $0.00086 $0.00623
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00249
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7c80fffbd640, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

media-validator 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.

helix_code/internal/commands/builtin_skills/media-validator/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Media Validator Skill

Purpose

Validates media files (MP4, PNG, TXT) by running OCR, metadata checks, and pattern matching against expected content. Returns PASS/FAIL with evidence.

Usage

bash skills/media-validator/media-validator.sh <file> [expected-pattern...]

Inputs

  • file — path to an MP4, PNG, or TXT file
  • expected-pattern — one or more grep/extended regex patterns expected in the extracted text

Outputs

  • stdout: PASS: <description> [evidence: <path>] or FAIL: <reason>
  • Evidence file at qa-results/media-validator/<timestamp>-<basename>/
  • Exit 0 on PASS, 1 on FAIL, 2 on SKIP

Dependencies

  • tesseract (optional — for OCR on images/video frames)
  • ffmpeg (optional — for frame extraction from MP4)
  • ffprobe (optional — for video metadata)
  • file (for MIME detection)

Cross-references

  • constitution/Constitution.md §11.4.107 (liveness evidence)
  • constitution/Constitution.md §11.4.117 (CV/OCR pixel oracle)
  • constitution/Constitution.md §11.4.137 (subtitle correctness)
  • constitution/Constitution.md §11.4.69 (sink-side evidence taxonomy)
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 Changed · +1 lines · +65 tokens per session 7c80fffbd640
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 85a067b5473c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

media-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository HelixDevelopment/code (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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