capture-video-frames

capture-video-frames is a skill for Claude Code from pamelafox/presentation-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,627 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that takes regular screenshots from a YouTube video and records each file's timestamp. It then supports adding an AI-generated description for every captured frame.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract video frames, create timestamped screenshot records, describe scenes, or review a video frame by frame.
Why use it?
It turns a long video into a set of time-labelled images that are easier to inspect and summarize. The manifest keeps the screenshots connected to their positions in the video.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to extract video frames, create timestamped screenshot records, describe scenes, or review a video frame by frame.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pamelafox/presentation-skills/capture-video-frames
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 pamelafox/presentation-skills --skill capture-video-frames
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pamelafox/presentation-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,627 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Memory Poisoning · line 49
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
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 $0.00060 $0.01627
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6f546ce25ec5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-video-frames 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (capture_video_frames.py), 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.

.agents/skills/capture-video-frames/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture and describe video frames

Step 1: Capture frames

Run the capture_video_frames.py script:

uv run .agents/skills/capture-video-frames/capture_video_frames.py <youtube_url> <output_dir> [--interval SECONDS]

Arguments

  • youtube_url (required): YouTube video URL (same formats accepted by the extract-transcript skill).
  • output_dir (required): Directory to save frames and the manifest file. Created if it doesn't exist.
  • --interval (optional): Seconds between captured frames. Defaults to 30.

Outputs

  • frame_0000.png, frame_0030.png, … — PNG images named by their timestamp in seconds (zero-padded to 4 digits).
  • frames_manifest.md — A markdown file listing each frame with its timestamp and a placeholder for descriptions.

Example frames_manifest.md:

| File | Timestamp | Description |
|------|-----------|-------------|
| frame_0000.png | [00:00] | |
| frame_0030.png | [00:30] | |
| frame_0060.png | [01:00] | |

Prerequisites

  • yt-dlp: brew install yt-dlp or pip install yt-dlp
  • ffmpeg: brew install ffmpeg or apt-get install ffmpeg

Step 2: Describe frames using the describe-frame subagent

After capturing frames, describe each frame by running the describe-frame custom agent as a subagent. Each subagent invocation gets an isolated context, so frame images won't accumulate and exhaust the context window.

The describe-frame agent is defined in .github/agents/describe-frame.md.

Procedure

  1. Read frames_manifest.md from the output directory to get the full list of frames.
  2. For each frame, run the describe-frame agent as a subagent with a prompt that includes:
    • The absolute path to the current frame image to view.
    • The absolute path to the previous frame image to view (if one exists).
    • The previous frame's description as text (if one exists).
  3. The subagent will return a plain-text description (or (same as previous) if the frame is essentially identical to the previous one).
  4. After each subagent returns, update the Description column for that row in frames_manifest.md immediately.
  5. Continue until all frames are described.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 146 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6f546ce25ec5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

capture-video-frames is a skill published in the GitHub repository pamelafox/presentation-skills (117 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,627 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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