media-watch

media-watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Knuckles-Team/media-downloader. It costs 135 tokens per session (2,411 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video-learning tool that downloads captions and selected frames from a video URL, then combines the spoken content with what appears on screen. It can turn tutorials, talks, demos, and screen recordings into written guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract the method, steps, and warnings from a video, or to create a reusable skill, checklist, or runbook. It needs access to a media-downloader MCP server, and frame extraction also needs ffmpeg and ffprobe.
Why use it?
Captions can miss commands, menu choices, settings, and error messages shown only in the video. Reading both the words and the frames preserves those details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to extract the method, steps, and warnings from a video, or to create a reusable skill, checklist, or runbook. It needs access to a media-downloader MCP server, and frame extraction also needs ffmpeg and ffprobe.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/knuckles-team/media-downloader/media-watch
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 Knuckles-Team/media-downloader --skill media-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/media-downloader

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,411 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 $0.00135 $0.02411
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00964
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00482
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00241

Measured yesterday against content hash d2a1511af368, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

media-watch 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.

media_downloader/skills/media-watch/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Media Watch

Turn a video into something an agent can work from: the transcript plus what was actually on screen.

When to use

  • Learn a method from a tutorial, demo, conference talk, or screen recording.
  • Capture what a video shows that the narration never says out loud — a command typed on screen, a menu path, a config value, an error message.
  • Turn a video into a reusable skill, checklist, or runbook.

When NOT to use

  • Just archiving a video → media-download.
  • Only the audio track as MP3 → media-audio.
  • A media file already on disk → audio-transcriber-transcription.
  • Querying media already in the KG → query the :MediaAsset nodes directly.

Prerequisites & environment

Connect via the mcp-client skill against the media-downloader MCP server. ffmpeg and ffprobe must be on PATH for key frames; without them the run still returns captions and reports frames.status: "unavailable".

Variable Required Notes
MEDIA_DOWNLOADER_OUTPUT_ROOT optional Root the bundle is written beneath
GRAPH_SERVICE_ENDPOINTS optional Engine endpoint for native KG ingestion

MCP_TOOL_MODE (condensed|verbose|both) selects the tool surface.

Tools & actions

Tool Purpose
watch_media Download a URL with captions + key frames; returns the bundle manifest
list_watch_skills What video-built skills exist and which videos each already has
build_watch_skill Write a new skill from a bundle, or extend an existing one
transcribe_audio (audio-transcriber package) fallback when captions are missing

Key parameters

  • video_url — the media URL (required).
  • download_directory — where the bundle is written (default .).
  • max_frames — cap on extracted key frames (default 24).
  • scene_threshold — ffmpeg scene sensitivity, 0-1 (default 0.3); lower finds more.
  • Frames also carry a sharpness score; below ~3 usually means motion blur.
  • subtitle_languages — comma-separated caption codes (default en,en-orig).

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 203 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A d2a1511af368

Subscribe to this mod's changes

media-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Knuckles-Team/media-downloader (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 2,411 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-29.

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