watch-together

watch-together is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,043 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A real-time co-watching setup for local TV shows and movies. It reads the video, dialogue, subtitles, and important frames so the assistant can react during playback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to watch local media through mpv, use subtitle files or transcription, or capture supported macOS and Windows desktops as a fallback.
Why use it?
It lets the assistant follow a film or show without requiring the user to describe what is happening, while supporting local files and desktop capture.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to watch local media through mpv, use subtitle files or transcription, or capture supported macOS and Windows desktops as a fallback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/watch-together
About the project

Vellum Assistant is a personal AI assistant that remembers information about users, learns their preferences, and takes actions across connected apps. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can manage conversations, unfinished work, and proactive notifications over time. The catalogue skills, hooks, instruction, and setting configure or extend how the assistant works.

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,234 stars · on GitHub · vellum.ai

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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill watch-together
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,043 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 237
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 243
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.02043
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00204

Measured 9d ago against content hash ce54f1bd1ab7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

watch-together scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6 executable files (scripts/capture_live.py, scripts/capture-live.sh, scripts/editor.py, …), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install python3 ffmpeg mpv
skills/watch-together/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Watch Together

Real-time co-watching. An editor model watches playback continuously and wakes the assistant only at moments worth reacting to. Each wake includes dialogue and story-critical frames. Wakes arrive through signal files, so do not poll.

Choose a mode

Source mode (preferred)

watch-file.py plays a local media file in mpv and reads that file directly. It does not capture the screen or require a loopback audio driver. Frames come from the source at full quality. Sidecar .srt subtitles or the first embedded text subtitle track provide exact dialogue. Without subtitles, the editor transcribes audio. Pause stops the flow and seeks resynchronize it.

Use source mode whenever the user has a local media file. The bundled script does not accept stream URLs.

Screen mode (fallback)

capture_live.py records supported desktops through ffmpeg and feeds completed segments to the same editor pipeline.

  • macOS: Uses AVFoundation. It auto-detects BlackHole for audio and records video only when BlackHole is unavailable.
  • Windows: Uses ffmpeg gdigrab. It records video only by default. System audio requires an existing DirectShow playback source such as Stereo Mix or a configured virtual audio cable, passed explicitly as the audio device.
  • Linux: Uses X11 capture and $DISPLAY. It records video only by default. System audio requires an existing PulseAudio or PipeWire-Pulse monitor source passed explicitly. Native Wayland screen capture is not supported by this script.

Screen capture cannot bypass DRM or protected-video blanking. If browser video is black in the recording, explain that screen mode is unsupported for that content. Do not claim the fallback works around content protection.

How it works

  1. Playback is divided into 60-second windows.
  2. editor.py reviews each window, selects story-critical frames, collects dialogue, and decides whether to wake now or hold a developing moment.
  3. A wake extracts the selected frames at 720p and sends a [WATCH] message to the active conversation.
  4. The assistant looks at the frames and dialogue and reacts only when useful.

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 259 lines · 53 tokens per session scan B ce54f1bd1ab7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

watch-together is a skill published in the GitHub repository vellum-ai/vellum-assistant (1,234 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,043 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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