vss-ask-video SKILL.md skillA
vss-ask-video from nvidia-ai-blueprints/video-search-and-summarization is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia-ai-blueprints/video-search-and-summarization/vss-ask-video@v3.3.0-rc0Pins v3.3.0-rc0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia-ai-blueprints/video-search-and-summarization
- Path
skills/operations/vss-ask-video/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- v3.3.0-rc0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 20,852 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,968
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use this skill when answering a question about previously analyzed or freshly scoped VSS video, or when reading a stored VSS memory job or record by id, or whenever a question should be answered by running the `vss memory introspect` command. Route through hot context, agent Markdown notes, `vss memory get` or `vss memory query`, `vss memory introspect`, or an exact-window `vss vlm run`. Not for video retrieval or metadata-answerable questions.
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
# Ask a VSS video question ## When to Use - Answer a question about previously analyzed or freshly scoped VSS video - Read a stored VSS memory job or record by id - Answer a question that requires running `vss memory introspect` - Answer a directly scoped URL, file, or sensor-window question via `vss vlm run` Not for video retrieval or metadata-answerable questions. Answer from the cheapest grounded source that can satisfy the question. For a running VSS deployment, use the installed `vss` CLI. Do not call an OpenAI-compatible `/chat/completions` endpoint directly or fall back to raw REST when a CLI command fails. This skill does not call `POST /generate` on the VSS agent. It requires a **deployed VSS with `vss configure` already run**. > **Hard rule — use the `vss` CLI.** `vss configure` has already pointed it at > the deployment's proxy, so every VSS action goes through that CLI and nothing > reaches the deployment any other way. > > Four things follow, because each has been done instead: > - use the `vss` on PATH (see Prerequisites) and call it as `vss`. Do not > build a parallel virtualenv or wrap it in another launcher; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia-ai-blueprints/video-search-and-summarization/vss-ask-video@sha256:371203d421440075The line at the top of this page pins the label v3.3.0-rc0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4jtknvj35yvrx7ie)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v3.3.0-rc0 latest | 2026-10-05 | c96450b | 20,852 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0-rc0 | 2026-09-30 | 20574d2 | 20,798 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0-rc0 | 2026-09-29 | 7ccc5db | 20,391 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-28 | 4e29ded | 20,387 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-23 | 302e11a | 20,042 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-22 | 25063d8 | 23,144 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-21 | b8f0d19 | 20,702 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-16 | 1ea1d64 | 14,645 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-15 | 4508d42 | 14,325 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-14 | 4ac059f | 11,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-14 | 256ae38 | 11,561 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-03 | c735eed | 11,615 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 (20852 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
nvidia-ai-blueprints/video-search-and-summarization · 1,968 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4jtknvj35yvrx7ie GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-ai-blueprints/video-search-and-summarization/vss-ask-video GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/371203d4214400751afb2dc395f718d21fb8188f2d3f97b750aaff9614938568
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