video-streaming-expert

video-streaming-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,086 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to delivering video over networks using formats such as HLS and DASH. It covers encoding, format conversion, adaptive quality, content delivery networks, playback, and digital rights protection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or troubleshoot live and on-demand streaming, multi-quality video, CDN delivery, WebRTC, FFmpeg workflows, and protected playback.
Why use it?
It helps separate the parts of a video service—encoding, packaging, delivery, and playback—so streaming problems can be investigated in the right place.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design or troubleshoot live and on-demand streaming, multi-quality video, CDN delivery, WebRTC, FFmpeg workflows, and protected playback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/video-streaming-expert
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 personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill video-streaming-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,086 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 $0.00079 $0.01086
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00543
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00109

Measured 5d ago against content hash 20043a9f4c7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-streaming-expert 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 5d 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.

stdlib/tools/video-streaming-expert/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Streaming Expert

Core Concepts

Streaming Protocols

  • HLS - HTTP Live Streaming (Apple)
  • DASH - Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
  • RTMP - Real-Time Messaging Protocol (legacy)
  • WebRTC - Real-time peer-to-peer
  • SRT - Secure Reliable Transport
  • RTSP - Real-Time Streaming Protocol

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

  • Multi-Bitrate - Multiple quality levels
  • Manifest Files - Playlist/MPD files
  • Segments - Small video chunks (2-10 seconds)
  • Quality Switching - Dynamic adaptation
  • Buffer Management - Smooth playback
  • Bandwidth Detection - Network monitoring

Key Components

  • Encoder - Video compression (H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1)
  • Transcoder - Format conversion
  • Packager - Create streaming formats
  • CDN - Content delivery network
  • Player - Video playback (HLS.js, Dash.js, Video.js)
  • DRM - Digital rights management

Best Practices

Encoding

  • Use modern codecs (H.265, VP9, AV1)
  • Implement adaptive bitrate ladder
  • Optimize keyframe intervals
  • Use constant quality mode (CRF)
  • Test across devices
  • Monitor encoding costs

Delivery

  • Use CDN for distribution
  • Implement proper caching
  • Enable CORS headers
  • Support range requests
  • Optimize segment size
  • Monitor bandwidth costs

Player

  • Implement quality switching
  • Handle network errors
  • Support offline playback
  • Optimize buffer management
  • Provide accessibility features
  • Track analytics

Security

  • Implement DRM when needed
  • Use signed URLs
  • Enable HTTPS
  • Validate tokens
  • Rate limit requests
  • Monitor for piracy

Anti-Patterns

Common Mistakes

  • Single bitrate streaming
  • Large segment sizes
  • Missing error recovery
  • No buffer management
  • Hard-coded CDN URLs
  • Ignoring mobile constraints

Performance Issues

  • Excessive buffering
  • Poor quality ladder
  • Missing CDN
  • Inefficient encoding
  • No cache headers
  • Synchronous transcoding

Security Problems

  • Unprotected content
  • Missing token validation
  • Weak DRM implementation
  • Exposed API keys
  • No rate limiting
  • Missing CORS configuration

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 5d ago First seen · 172 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 20043a9f4c7b

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video-streaming-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,086 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 2026-09-05.