watch-video SKILL.md skillA
watch-video from coreyhaines31/makerskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coreyhaines31/makerskills/watch-video@v0.2.3Pins v0.2.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coreyhaines31/makerskills
- Path
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.2.3, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 2, 2026
- Size
- 15,112 bytes
- Repository stars
- 882
- License
- MIT
When you want to extract content from a video — YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom recording, local MP4, X/IG video, anything yt-dlp supports. Three depth modes user picks per invocation — transcript (just words, fast/free), visual (transcript + ffmpeg frame extraction + Claude vision pass on key moments), multimodal (Gemini native video ingestion if $GEMINI_API_KEY set, else dense Claude vision). Uses local Whisper for transcription (MLX-Whisper on Apple Silicon, faster-whisper elsewhere)…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# /watch-video — Transcribe and analyze any video at the depth you choose Replaces and broadens the prior `youtube-transcript` skill. YouTube is now one of many sources; depth is user-controlled. ## Step 1 — Parse input Accept: - **YouTube**: full URL, `youtu.be/<id>`, `youtube.com/shorts/<id>`, raw 11-char ID - **Loom**: `loom.com/share/<id>` or `loom.com/embed/<id>` - **Vimeo**: `vimeo.com/<id>` - **Riverside**: download URL or local file - **Zoom**: local `.mp4` from a downloaded recording - **X / IG / TikTok video**: URL — defers to `social-fetch` for metadata, uses yt-dlp for the file - **Local file**: any path to an `.mp4` / `.mov` / `.webm` / `.mkv` Detect source from URL pattern or file extension. If ambiguous, ask. ## Step 2 — Parse depth mode | Invocation | Mode | What you get | |---|---|---| | `/watch-video <url>` | **transcript** (default) | Clean text, metadata, optional chapters | | `/watch-video <url> transcript` | transcript | Same as default | | `/watch-video <url> visual` | visual | Transcript + frames at intervals + Claude vision pass identifying key moments | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add coreyhaines31/makerskills/watch-video@sha256:0d669fae07b9e35aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.3 latest | 2026-10-22 | 2a44ef8 | 15,112 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.3 | 2026-10-08 | 016131f | 15,129 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.2 | 2026-10-08 | 883df9c | 15,129 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.2 | 2026-07-10 | 7c08527 | 14,872 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.2 | 2026-07-02 | cc27926 | 14,869 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15112 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
coreyhaines31/makerskills · 882 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2l4nevebau4v3mcy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coreyhaines31/makerskills/watch-video GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d669fae07b9e35a2729ba5b1f8e2eed148d0e9682dee71dcbbb102c799bd919
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.