video-transcripts

A tool that creates structured transcripts from local video files or video links using Google's Gemini Files API. It is intended for recordings attached to GitHub or Linear work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transcribe recordings that explain a bug, reproduce a user-interface problem, or document a requested change.
Why use it?
It saves developers from watching and manually summarising screen recordings when they need written notes for a bug or task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/udecode/plate-template/video-transcripts
Any agent
npx skills add udecode/plate-template --skill video-transcripts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/udecode/plate-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,502 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00066 $0.01502
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00150

Measured 2d ago against content hash 11f97ff50dbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-transcripts 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_video_transcript.sh), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to video-transcripts — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/video-transcripts/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Transcripts

Quick Start

Run the helper once per relevant video:

bash .agents/skills/video-transcripts/scripts/generate_video_transcript.sh \
  "https://uploads.linear.app/.../screen-recording.mov" \
  --title "PDF preview hyperlinks trigger leave-page modal"

Or for a GitHub attachment:

bash .agents/skills/video-transcripts/scripts/generate_video_transcript.sh \
  "https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/..." \
  --title "Slash menu loses selection after confirm"

Or for a Screencastify watch page:

bash .agents/skills/video-transcripts/scripts/generate_video_transcript.sh \
  "https://app.screencastify.com/watch/..." \
  --title "Bulk send expands filtered recipients"

Or for a local file:

bash .agents/skills/video-transcripts/scripts/generate_video_transcript.sh \
  "/absolute/path/to/video.mov" \
  --title "Preview hyperlink exits workflow"

For auth-gated Linear uploads, the helper automatically retries with cookies from the local Linear desktop app on macOS. For private GitHub asset URLs, it retries with GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_TOKEN, or gh auth token when available.

Use This When

  • A GitHub or Linear issue, PR, or comment includes a screen recording.
  • An attachment URL points to uploads.linear.app.
  • An attachment URL points to a GitHub attachment or private GitHub asset host.
  • A tracker links to a public Screencastify watch page.
  • You need timeline-style transcript lines, not a vague summary.
  • You want the result in this exact XML shape:
<video-transcripts>
<video-transcript title="...">
[00:00] (...)
</video-transcript>
</video-transcripts>

Workflow

  1. Run the helper once for each relevant video.
  2. Give each run a short, bug-focused --title.
  3. For tracked work, the canonical shared cache should live in the tracker next to the evidence it describes.
  4. If the video is in the issue or PR body, use a top-level tracker comment.
  5. If the video is in a Linear comment, post the transcript cache as a reply to that specific comment.
  6. If the video is in a GitHub issue or PR comment, use one dedicated top-level cache comment for that source comment's video set. GitHub has no replies, so keep cache comments separated by source container instead of merging unrelated comment videos together.
  7. Cache comment or reply body should start with a transcript source link, then the timestamp lines:

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 2d ago First seen · 136 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 11f97ff50dbf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-transcripts is a skill published in the GitHub repository udecode/plate-template (59 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,502 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to video-transcripts, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.