download-video

download-video is a skill for Claude Code from rameerez/claude-code-startup-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (545 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that saves online videos to your computer from URLs such as YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and many other sites. It uses yt-dlp, a separate video-downloading tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Downloading videos or audio, choosing a specific quality or format, saving files to a chosen folder, and archiving online video references.
Why use it?
It avoids having to find and use a different downloader for each video site. It can also save only the audio when you need a recording for transcription or listening.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the startup plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Downloading videos or audio, choosing a specific quality or format, saving files to a chosen folder, and archiving online video references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rameerez/claude-code-startup-skills/download-video
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 rameerez/claude-code-startup-skills --skill download-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rameerez/claude-code-startup-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install startup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 545 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.
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 $0.00047 $0.00545
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00055

Measured 10d ago against content hash 352d71197c46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

download-video 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 10d 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/download-video/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Video Download Skill

Download a video from $ARGUMENTS (a social media URL) to the current directory using yt-dlp.

Supports X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and 1400+ other sites.

Process

  1. Verify yt-dlp is installed - check with which yt-dlp, suggest brew install yt-dlp if missing
  2. Download the video in the best available quality
  3. Report results with filename, format, and file size

Download Command

yt-dlp -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL"

Options Reference

# Best video+audio (default)
yt-dlp -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL"

# List available formats first
yt-dlp -F "URL"

# Pick a specific format
yt-dlp -f "FORMAT_ID" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL"

# Audio only (e.g. for podcasts)
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL"

# Custom output directory
yt-dlp -o "/path/to/dir/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL"

Platform-Specific Notes

Platform Notes
X/Twitter Works with tweet URLs containing video. May need --cookies-from-browser for age-restricted content
YouTube Supports playlists, channels, shorts. Use -F to pick resolution
Instagram Reels and stories supported. May require authentication for private accounts
TikTok Direct video URLs work. Watermark-free when available
Reddit Handles v.redd.it links with audio merging automatically

After Download

  1. Verify the file: ls -lh *.mp4 (or whatever extension was downloaded)
  2. Report the filename, format, resolution, and file size to the user
  3. If the user wants subtitles or a transcript, suggest using /transcribe-video
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. 10d ago First seen · 60 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 352d71197c46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

download-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository rameerez/claude-code-startup-skills (29 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 545 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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