asking-with-evidence

asking-with-evidence is a skill for Claude Code from oxbshw/watch-skill. It costs 74 tokens per session (528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An evidence-based question-answering guide for videos that Watch Skill has already indexed. It uses the saved transcript, on-screen text, and selected video frames to answer with timestamps and a confidence score.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask what was said, what appears on screen, or what happens at a particular time. It helps investigate video content, displayed error messages, and specific moments.
Why use it?
It avoids watching the same video again or guessing about what happened. If the indexed video does not clearly contain the answer, it says so.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the watch-skill plugin — 10 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to ask what was said, what appears on screen, or what happens at a particular time. It helps investigate video content, displayed error messages, and specific moments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oxbshw/watch-skill/asking-with-evidence
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 oxbshw/watch-skill --skill asking-with-evidence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxbshw/watch-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install watch-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 528 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00074 $0.00528
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00053

Measured today against content hash a214879ee6e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asking-with-evidence 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 today.

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/asking-with-evidence/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Asking with evidence

Every watched video sits in a persistent index. Questions about it are answered from that index — text first, frames only when needed — with timestamps, a confidence score, and an honest refusal when the video does not show the answer. Never re-run a watch for a follow-up.

Answer a question

watch-skill ask <video_id-or-original-url> "<question>"

Any language works; the answer comes back in the language of the question. The engine escalates on its own when unsure (dense re-sampling, zoom-crop re-OCR, stronger model) and prints a ~N tokens saved line.

Three rules for reading the result:

  • Cite the timestamps it gives you; they are real evidence, not decoration.
  • Trust the refusal. When it says the video does not clearly show the answer, that is the answer. Do not invent one past it.
  • Frame paths are listed only when the engine wants you to look yourself — Read them then (or force with --frames).

"What happens at 2:30?"

Moment questions get a dense window, not a whole-video ask:

watch-skill ask <video_id> "what is on screen around 2:30?"

The answer engine pulls frames, transcript and OCR around the moment it resolves. Agents on MCP have a dedicated get_moment tool that takes an explicit timestamp and window; the CLI answers the same question through ask.

Don't know which video? Search them all

watch-skill search "<phrase>"

Hybrid keyword + semantic search across every video ever watched, with per-script normalization (Arabic folding, CJK segmentation, Thai segmentation). Follow a hit with ask or moment on that video.

When the user corrects you

Report it so the next answer is better — see the learning-from-mistakes skill.

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. today Changed a214879ee6e9
  2. yesterday Changed 0b5061b6c6d7
  3. 2d ago Changed aa3e3ec9685d
  4. 10d ago First seen · 63 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 5f39326c6b9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asking-with-evidence is a skill published in the GitHub repository oxbshw/watch-skill (360 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 528 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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