frigate-configurator

frigate-configurator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,811 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration guide for Frigate NVR, a home-security video recorder that detects objects in camera footage. It covers YAML settings, recording, camera zones, detectors, and hardware acceleration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure cameras, object detection, recording, zones, Coral TPU or OpenVINO hardware, and Home Assistant integration.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose and avoid common setup problems such as missing detections, high CPU use, broken recordings, and failed camera integrations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions/frigate-configurator
Any agent
npx skills add nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions --skill frigate-configurator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 3,811 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 $0.03811
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01906
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00762
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00381

Measured 4d ago against content hash bc05f099dd5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frigate-configurator 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-config.sh), 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.

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.

.claude/skills/frigate-configurator/SKILL.md · 598 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 598 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frigate NVR Configuration Expert

Comprehensive Frigate NVR configuration assistance with optimized YAML generation, detector setup, and troubleshooting.

BEFORE YOU START

This skill prevents 12+ common errors and saves ~60% tokens on Frigate configuration.

Metric Without Skill With Skill
Setup Time 2-4 hours 30-45 min
Common Errors 12+ 0
Token Usage ~15,000 ~6,000

Known Issues This Skill Prevents

  1. Bus errors from insufficient shared memory allocation
  2. Green/distorted video from incorrect resolution configuration
  3. Database locked errors when using network storage for SQLite
  4. Missing audio in recordings due to default audio stripping
  5. MQTT connection failures from using localhost in Docker
  6. Coral TPU not detected due to missing device passthrough
  7. High CPU usage from missing hardware acceleration
  8. False positives from missing motion masks on timestamps
  9. No alerts triggered due to misconfigured required_zones
  10. Recording corruption from h265 streams without transcoding
  11. go2rtc WebRTC failures from missing STUN configuration
  12. Object detection misses from wrong detect stream resolution

Quick Start

Step 1: Create Minimal Configuration

mqtt:
  enabled: false

cameras:
  front_door:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/stream1
          roles:
            - detect
    detect:
      width: 1280
      height: 720
      fps: 5

Why this matters: Start with the absolute minimum to verify camera connectivity before adding complexity. Frigate requires explicit detect stream role assignment.

Step 2: Add Hardware-Accelerated Detector

detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb

# OR for Intel with OpenVINO:
detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: GPU

Why this matters: CPU detection is not recommended for production. Even a single USB Coral TPU dramatically reduces CPU usage and improves detection latency.

Read the full file on GitHub · 598 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 4d ago First seen · 598 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A bc05f099dd5d

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frigate-configurator is a skill published in the GitHub repository nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,811 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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