configuring-vision

configuring-vision is a skill for Claude Code from oxbshw/watch-skill. It costs 71 tokens per session (473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for connecting Watch Skill to a visual AI provider, which is a service or local model that interprets video frames. It covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, and Ollama, with options for different models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure a provider, set a vision model, or connect a local Ollama model. It helps route ordinary video analysis and harder verification work to suitable models.
Why use it?
It separates the coding assistant from the model that understands images, so you can use a provider you already have access to. It also helps choose cheaper models for routine work and stronger ones for uncertain answers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Part of the watch-skill plugin — 10 skills, 1 command, 27 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/oxbshw/watch-skill/configuring-vision
Any agent
npx skills add oxbshw/watch-skill --skill configuring-vision
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, 27 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 473 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.00473
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00047

Measured 6d ago against content hash 38a1ffbe764a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-vision 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 6d 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/configuring-vision/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Configuring vision

Watch Skill's agent surface and model backend are separate choices. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, framework agents, and REST clients all call the same engine; the engine can send selected frames to any supported vision provider.

Supported providers

watch-skill setup-vision --provider anthropic --api-key <KEY>
watch-skill setup-vision --provider openai --api-key <KEY>
watch-skill setup-vision --provider gemini --api-key <KEY>
watch-skill setup-vision --provider openrouter --api-key <KEY>
watch-skill setup-vision --provider ollama

Prefer a key the user already has. Do not claim Ollama is required, and do not ask the user to reveal a secret in chat. They can set the matching environment variable or run the command privately in their terminal.

Route bulk work and verification separately

One model can serve both tiers:

watch-skill setup-vision --provider openai --api-key <KEY> --model <vision-model>

Or use a cheaper model for scene descriptions and a stronger model for uncertain answers and loop critiques:

watch-skill setup-vision --provider openrouter --api-key <KEY> \
  --cheap-model <fast-vision-model> --strong-model <strong-vision-model>

Add --verify to make one live probe call. If it fails, report the structured error and its fix; never echo the key.

No provider is also valid

Without a vision API, Watch Skill still acquires video, reads captions, runs local transcription and OCR, indexes evidence, and searches it. Visual synthesis degrades to timestamped evidence instead of guessing.

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. 6d ago First seen · 54 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 38a1ffbe764a

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configuring-vision is a skill published in the GitHub repository oxbshw/watch-skill (333 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 473 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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