ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thewolffish/wolffish-app. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multimedia toolkit for processing video and audio files. FFmpeg is a command-line program commonly used to convert, cut, combine, and transform media.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run FFmpeg commands for video or audio processing, verify whether FFmpeg is installed, and install a managed copy when it is missing.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to run FFmpeg and check or install it when needed. It also specifies where generated files should be saved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to run FFmpeg commands for video or audio processing, verify…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thewolffish/wolffish-app/ffmpeg
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 thewolffish/wolffish-app --skill ffmpeg
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thewolffish/wolffish-app

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thewolffish/wolffish-app/ffmpeg"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thewolffish/wolffish-app/ffmpeg.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,138 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 $0.00011 $0.01138
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00569
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00114

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3554693e0c63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ffmpeg 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (plugin/index.mjs), 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.

src/defaults/workspace/brain/cerebellum/ffmpeg/SKILL.md · 158 lines

What it actually says

FFmpeg

Usage

Use ffmpeg_check to verify ffmpeg is installed before running commands. If not installed, call ffmpeg_install (requires user approval).

ffmpeg_install is managed-first and needs no admin rights: it reuses a global ffmpeg if present, otherwise downloads a static build into ~/.wolffish/bin/ffmpeg — no package manager, no password. Don't fall back to ad-hoc shell downloads — just call ffmpeg_install. ffmpeg_check and ffmpeg_run resolve that managed copy directly, so a freshly installed ffmpeg works immediately without an app restart.

The managed install provides ffmpeg only. If you need ffprobe (e.g. to read video metadata) or a globally-visible ffmpeg, call ffmpeg_install_system, which installs both via the OS package manager (admin on Linux) and falls back to the no-root copy if that's unavailable.

Use ffmpeg_run with the arguments you'd pass after ffmpeg on the command line.

Output files

Save all output files in the workspace files/ directory — the same parent directory where uploads/ lives, but use files/ instead. For example if the input is at …/uploads/conv-…/video.mp4, save output to …/files/output.mp3. Never use /tmp/ or any path outside the workspace.

Common patterns

  • Compress video: -i input.mp4 -crf 28 -preset medium output.mp4
  • Extract audio: -i input.mp4 -vn -acodec copy output.aac
  • Convert format: -i input.avi -c:v libx264 -c:a output.mp4
  • Resize video: -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1280:720 output.mp4
  • Get info: -i input.mp4 (prints metadata to stderr)
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. 6d ago First seen · 158 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 3554693e0c63

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ffmpeg is a skill published in the GitHub repository thewolffish/wolffish-app (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,138 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.