overcast-verify-media

overcast-verify-media is a skill for Claude Code from kdr/overcast. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A media-checking skill for investigating whether an image or video was changed or staged, using several independent clues such as signed provenance, metadata, file-noise analysis, and sun or shadow timing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking edit history and capture details, comparing claimed times with metadata, and assessing multiple signs of possible manipulation.
Why use it?
It avoids declaring media genuine or fake from a single unreliable signal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the overcast plugin — 35 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for checking edit history and capture details, comparing claimed times with metadata, and assessing multiple signs of possible manipulation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kdr/overcast/overcast-verify-media
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.

Any agent
npx skills add kdr/overcast --skill overcast-verify-media
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdr/overcast

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,064 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01064
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00532
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 9d ago against content hash f9b2a1d7e02b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

overcast-verify-media 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 9d 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-verify-media/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

overcast-verify-media

Use this skill to assess whether a media file was manipulated or staged. Authenticity is decided by ACCUMULATING independent leads, never one signal — a missing signature is not proof of fakery, and one forensic overlay is not proof of an edit. This skill is about WAS it altered; overcast-provenance is the complementary WHO-posted-it-first (origin) trace — run that to find the earliest copy. Use the broad overcast skill and overcast/reference/verbs.md for exact flags.

Workflow

  1. Check embedded provenance FIRST (free). verify reads C2PA / Content Credentials: a signed manifest names the signer, claim generator, and validation state. No manifest is a clean ready record, NOT proof of fakery — most files simply have none:
overcast doctor --json
overcast case init --json
overcast verify ./suspect.jpg --json       # C2PA: has_manifest, signer, validation state (needs c2patool)
  1. Read the capture metadata (free). exif surfaces editing software (a re-save flag), the capture time to compare against the claimed time, and the device — each a lead, not a verdict:
overcast exif ./suspect.jpg --json         # editing software, capture time, device, GPS (needs exiftool)
  1. Run the forensic overlays as edit-detection LEADS, and LOOK at them. enhance --ops ela writes ELA / noise / luminance maps that can highlight a spliced or pasted region — a heuristic, so view the output, don't trust the label:
# --ops ela needs a bound enhance provider (once per profile). The shipped ela
# choice needs only pillow + numpy — no fal key:
overcast provider setup apply --verb enhance --choice ela --yes
overcast enhance ./suspect.jpg --ops ela --json   # ELA/noise/luminance overlays (or a bound local-models / fal provider)
overcast view <ela-record-id> --json              # eyeball the overlays — inconsistent regions are the lead
  1. If the file carries (or claims) a time and place, cross-check the sun. With GPS present (from exif) or supplied, chronolocate --at-time computes the expected shadow direction/length for the claimed time — a mismatch flags a mis-dated or staged image:

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A f9b2a1d7e02b

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overcast-verify-media is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdr/overcast (16 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,064 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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