transcribe

transcribe is a skill for Claude Code from nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp-rs. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A video transcription skill that turns speech from online or local video files into text using Whisper.cpp, and can search saved transcripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for transcribing videos, answering questions about what was said, summarising recordings, and finding topics across saved transcripts.
Why use it?
It removes the need to watch entire videos or manually search through past recordings for specific information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the video-transcriber plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for transcribing videos, answering questions about what was said, summarising recordings, and finding topics across saved transcripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp-rs/transcribe
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 nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp-rs --skill transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp-rs

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install video-transcriber, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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 transcribe

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,150 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 $0.00079 $0.01150
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00115

Measured 11d ago against content hash 73236edbd39d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcribe 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 11d 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/transcribe/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transcribe the given video and answer the user's question about it — or summarize it if no question was asked.

Transcription is local and offline: whisper.cpp runs on this machine, and nothing but the video download leaves it.

Pick the right tool

The video-transcriber MCP server is auto-registered by this plugin. Route by what the user actually wants:

Situation Tool
A URL or file path, needs transcribing transcribe_video
"What did that video say about X" across past videos search_transcripts
"The one I just did" / no URL given get_latest_transcript
"What have I transcribed?" list_transcripts
Something failed and the cause is unclear check_dependencies
"Does it support ?" list_supported_sites

Do not re-transcribe. Before calling transcribe_video on a URL, check list_transcripts — transcription is minutes of compute, and the transcript may already be on disk. Transcripts are saved to ~/Downloads/video-transcripts/ by default.

Transcribing

transcribe_video takes url (required), plus model, language, and output_dir.

Model choice matters more than anything else here:

Model Use when
tiny / base Default. Clear speech, English, you want an answer now. base is the default.
small / medium Accented speech, domain jargon, multiple speakers, or the base pass came back garbled.
large Accuracy actually matters — quotes, names, numbers you'll act on. Slowest by a wide margin.

Set language to an ISO 639-1 code (en, vi, es, ja) when you know it. auto is the default and it does misdetect on short or music-heavy clips — an explicit code is both faster and more accurate.

The response carries the transcript inline, truncated for long videos, along with the paths to the saved .txt, .json, and .md. When the transcript is truncated and the question needs the whole thing, Read the .txt path rather than transcribing again.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 11d ago First seen · 73 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 73236edbd39d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp-rs (17 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,150 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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