watch

watch is a skill for Claude Code from maddexritter-rgb/vibe-editing. It costs 196 tokens per session (1,816 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A video-analysis skill that examines footage through sampled images, a transcript, and timing and loudness information. It can compare a clip with a reference or check a finished vertical short.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand what happens in a video, compare edits, read captions, check their placement, and review short-form video quality.
Why use it?
It helps identify visual, caption, pacing, framing, and audio problems without relying only on a human watching the entire video manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the vibe-editing plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to understand what happens in a video, compare edits, read captions, check their placement, and review short-form video quality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maddexritter-rgb/vibe-editing/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 maddexritter-rgb/vibe-editing --skill watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maddexritter-rgb/vibe-editing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibe-editing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,816 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00196 $0.01816
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00182

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3e8c324d418e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

watch scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/_util.py, scripts/ab_diff.py, scripts/caption_ocr.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

(the project `.mcp.json` reads `${GEMINI_API_KEY}`, or hard-code it there like the
plugins/vibe-editing/skills/watch/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

watch — eyes & ears for video

The thing that makes "watch a video well" work is converting video into things Claude reasons over natively: frames as images (Claude sees them directly) + an accurate transcript + timing/loudness metadata. This skill is the disciplined way to do that, tuned for short-form editing QA and reference-matching.

How Claude actually sees video

  1. Frames → my own eyes. The MCP video_watch with frame_mode:"images" (now the default — see config below) returns real JPEGs into the conversation. I look at them directly; there is no lossy "describer" model in between. The local scripts here do the same via ffmpeg → PNG that I then Read.
  2. Audio → transcript. The MCP transcribes with the configured backend. For editing captions, keep using the canonical transcription stack (Groq + WhisperX + vocab-correct) — it is better on proper nouns. Use the MCP transcript for understanding/QA, not for generating final captions.
  3. Long-form (>~3 min) → Gemini. When the Gemini key is set, flip the backend to gemini-api and Gemini ingests the whole video in one pass (timestamps, what happens, where the energy is). Without it, dense local frames + transcript still work, just at higher token cost — so segment first.

Decision tree — which tool, when

Goal Use
Understand a whole long-form fast MCP video_analyze (structure) → video_watch Gemini one-pass
Eyeball a finished short's arc contact_sheet.py → Read the PNG
Check burnt-in caption placement/presence caption_ocr.py (placement) + contact sheet & your eyes (exact text)
Compare my render vs a reference reel ab_diff.py --mode side
See exactly what changed v1 → v2 ab_diff.py --mode diff
Check audio levels / pacing / black frames probe.py (or MCP video_analyze loudness/silence)
Zoom into one tense moment frame-by-frame MCP video_detail with a tight segment + high fps

Default rhythm for a clip I have not seen: contact_sheet.py first (one image, whole arc) → decide which moments matter → video_detail/video_watch on just those segments at higher fps. Never blast a 13-min file at high fps; analyze, then drill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 130 lines · 196 tokens per session scan B 3e8c324d418e

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watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository maddexritter-rgb/vibe-editing (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 1,816 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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