video-understand

video-understand is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m. It costs 68 tokens per session (5,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A video-analysis capability that examines video files, including scenes, movement, events, audio, and changes over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Describing scenes, detecting actions or events, tracking objects, finding scene changes, and summarizing audio-visual material.
Why use it?
It helps extract useful information from a video without watching every moment manually. It can summarize content and follow people or objects across frames.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Describing scenes, detecting actions or events, tracking objects, finding scene changes, and summarizing audio-visual material.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m/video-understand
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m --skill video-understand
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,759 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 $0.00068 $0.05759
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02880
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00576

Measured 9d ago against content hash fe4787378794, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-understand 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/video-understand.ts), 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.

skills/video-understand/SKILL.md · 917 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 917 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Understanding Skill

This skill provides specialized video understanding functionality using the z-ai-web-dev-sdk package, enabling AI models to analyze, describe, and extract information from video content including motion, temporal sequences, and scene changes.

Skills Path

Skill Location: {project_path}/skills/video-understand

this skill is located at above path in your project.

Reference Scripts: Example test scripts are available in the {Skill Location}/scripts/ directory for quick testing and reference. See {Skill Location}/scripts/video-understand.ts for a working example.

Overview

Video Understanding focuses specifically on video content analysis, providing capabilities for:

  • Video scene understanding and description
  • Action and motion detection
  • Temporal sequence analysis
  • Event detection in videos
  • Video content summarization
  • Scene change detection
  • People and object tracking across frames
  • Audio-visual content analysis (when applicable)

IMPORTANT: z-ai-web-dev-sdk MUST be used in backend code only. Never use it in client-side code.

Prerequisites

The z-ai-web-dev-sdk package is already installed. Import it as shown in the examples below.

CLI Usage (For Simple Tasks)

For quick video analysis tasks, you can use the z-ai CLI instead of writing code. This is ideal for simple video descriptions, testing, or automation.

Basic Video Analysis

# Analyze a video from URL
z-ai vision --prompt "Summarize what happens in this video" --image "https://example.com/video.mp4"

# Note: Use --image flag for video URLs as well
z-ai vision -p "Describe the key events" -i "https://example.com/presentation.mp4"

Analyze Local Videos

# Analyze a local video file
z-ai vision -p "What activities are shown in this video?" -i "./recording.mp4"

# Save response to file
z-ai vision -p "Provide a detailed summary" -i "./meeting.mp4" -o summary.json

Advanced Video Analysis

# Complex scene understanding with thinking
z-ai vision \
  -p "Analyze this video and identify: 1) Main events, 2) People and their actions, 3) Timeline of key moments" \
  -i "./event.mp4" \
  --thinking \
  -o analysis.json

# Action detection
z-ai vision \
  -p "Identify all actions performed by people in this video" \
  -i "./sports.mp4" \
  --thinking

Read the full file on GitHub · 917 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 917 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A fe4787378794

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video-understand is a skill published in the GitHub repository ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 5,759 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 2026-09-03.

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