video-action-purpose-alignment

video-action-purpose-alignment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw. It costs 40 tokens per session (277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video-question method for identifying the main goal behind a sequence of actions, rather than focusing on one small step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for answering questions about the purpose of activities such as fixing, cleaning, planting, or building.
Why use it?
It helps choose an answer about what the person is trying to accomplish instead of a secondary action or object interaction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for answering questions about the purpose of activities such as fixing, cleaning, planting, or building.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ucsc-vlaa/visualclaw/video-action-purpose-alignment
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 UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw --skill video-action-purpose-alignment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 277 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 $0.00040 $0.00277
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00028

Measured 8d ago against content hash bf9f282f1fd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-action-purpose-alignment 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.

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.

visualclaw/skills_seed/seed_universal_mc/video-action-purpose-alignment/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Align Answer to Primary Purpose, Not Secondary Details

  1. Identify the main goal: Before selecting an answer, determine what the person in the video is fundamentally trying to accomplish (e.g., fixing something, cleaning, planting, building).
  2. Distinguish primary from secondary: Separate the core objective from intermediate steps or side effects (e.g., holding a bag is secondary if the primary goal is painting).
  3. Match the answer to the overarching theme: Select the option that describes the ultimate purpose, not just one action or tool interaction.
  4. Verify with context: Ask yourself: "If I had to explain this video in one sentence, what would it be?" The correct answer should align with that sentence.

Example: In Failure 4, the assistant chose "C interacts with the black bag to conceal it" when the actual primary purpose was painting (the bag was just a grip aid). The correct answer focuses on the true objective.

Anti-pattern: Selecting an answer that describes only one action or tool without considering the broader activity or end goal.

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 · 17 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A bf9f282f1fd8

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video-action-purpose-alignment is a skill published in the GitHub repository UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw (55 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 277 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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