overcast-archive

overcast-archive is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kdr/overcast. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,019 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A media archive tool for keeping reference photos, videos, audio, faces, and locations available across multiple investigations or cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create archive collections, add captured media with tags and notes, build searchable indexes, and check whether new media matches something already archived.
Why use it?
It lets recurring evidence or reference material outlive one case and makes it searchable later instead of storing separate copies each time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the overcast plugin — 35 skills, 1 hook 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/kdr/overcast/overcast-archive
Any agent
npx skills add kdr/overcast --skill overcast-archive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdr/overcast

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install overcast, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 hook.

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 overcast-archive

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,019 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 $0.00050 $0.01019
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 5d ago against content hash ac55c679d096, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

overcast-archive 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 5d 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.

skills/overcast-archive/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

overcast-archive

Use this skill when media should outlive one case (reference footage, known faces, recurring locations, signature audio) or when the user asks "have I seen this before?". A bucket is a case-shaped folder under ~/.overcast/archive/<bucket> (override root with OVERCAST_HOME/--home); archive list is the directory of buckets. Use the broad overcast skill and overcast/reference/verbs.md for exact flags.

Save media into a bucket

overcast archive init ref-footage --name "Reference footage" --json
overcast archive add rec_ab12cd34 --to ref-footage --tags drone,uav --note "known drone, case 44" --json
overcast archive add ./face3.png https://example.com/clip.mp4 --to ref-footage --json
overcast archive add --all --to ref-footage --json   # every captured/sensed media record of this case
overcast archive show ref-footage --json             # items + indexes + setup health

Items are sha256-deduped capture records in the bucket (tags/note/origin provenance searchable via ask --archive). archive remove <item> --from <bucket> retires an item (its record stays in bucket history).

Set up bucket indexes (the wizard)

archive setup <bucket> with no flags returns the wizard script — in the TUI ask ONE question at a time (like case setup): purpose, indexes, memory backend, automation, then preview/apply. Non-interactive:

overcast archive setup ref-footage plan --index faces:deepface-local,clip:basic-clip --json
overcast archive setup ref-footage --index faces:deepface-local,clip:basic-clip --memory local-grep --auto-index-new --yes --json
overcast archive setup ref-footage status --json     # coverage + memory index health

Index types — local: deepface-local (face search), basic-clip (semantic), image-ransac (exact image), audio-fp (audio fingerprint), basic-clap (audio semantic), voice-print (speaker verification), face-cluster (people DB); remote Cloudglue: media-descriptions (ask/probe), face-analysis, entities. Skipping indexes is fine — a bucket is still greppable via ask --archive. On apply, existing bucket media is backfilled into new indexes automatically.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 5d ago First seen · 87 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A ac55c679d096

Subscribe to this mod's changes

overcast-archive is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdr/overcast (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,019 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 2026-08-30.

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