analyze-video

analyze-video is a skill for Claude Code from novoads/agent-skills. It costs 138 tokens per session (6,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for studying a reference video and turning its visual style into a reusable prompt template for Seedance 2.0, a video-generation system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extracting frames, transcribing and analyzing a video locally, creating a reusable prompt formula, and optionally testing it with the Novoads API.
Why use it?
It captures the video's structure, pacing, camera work, editing, and tone so the style can be reused without analyzing the video from scratch each time.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Model guide:** read [seedance-2.md](../novoads-api/prompting/prompt-library/seedance-2.md) first for the request fields, the grid,.

Part of the skills plugin — 17 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Extracting frames, transcribing and analyzing a video locally, creating a reusable prompt formula, and optionally testing it with the Novoads API.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/novoads/agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/novoads/agent-skills/analyze-video

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,208 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 381
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 381
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 404
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00138 $0.06208
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.03104
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00621

Measured 9d ago against content hash d31c286690be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-video scanned grade A 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/extract-frames.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sS -X POST https://api.novoads.ai/v1/uploads \
skills/analyze-video/SKILL.md · 511 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 511 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyze video → reusable prompting template

Someone found a video style they love. Your job is to deconstruct it into a reusable prompting template — a formula they can plug any product, person or setting into and get that same style back from seedance-2.0.

The output is not a single prompt. It is a formula file saved into skills/novoads-api/prompting/prompt-library/, built the way seedance-2-ugc.md is built: layers, variables, option banks, rules, and a worked example, so the agent can generate unlimited prompts in that style.

Nothing in steps 1 to 6 touches the API. Frame extraction, transcription and analysis are local work on the user's own file: no calls, no credits. Only step 7, the optional test render, spends anything, and it runs through the two gates in SKILL.md like every other generation.

There is a hosted alternative, and it is not the default. POST /v1/analyses reads an uploaded ad into a structured breakdown (hook boundary, beat timeline, on-screen text, casting, layer zones) in one synchronous call, at a flat fee per analysis that does not move with length. Price it through POST /v1/estimates with {"kind":"analysis"} first. Two reasons it is the fallback and not the front door here: the local path costs nothing and reads the whole runtime, while /analyses defaults to the first 20 seconds (120 is the ceiling, and raising it trades hook precision for coverage). Reach for it when ffmpeg is not installed, when the user wants zone labels rather than prose, or when the frame read has already failed. Offer it with the price attached and let the user choose; never substitute it silently for step 1.

The 15-second constraint is the whole design problem. seedance-2.0 and seedance-2.0-mini take any integer 4 to 15 seconds, and the reference video is usually 30 to 60. Your template has to distil the style into what fits one 15-second clip, and say how to recreate the longer arc across a series of clips.

Read the full file on GitHub · 511 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 511 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A d31c286690be

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analyze-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository novoads/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 6,208 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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