parsing-video SKILL.md skillA
parsing-video from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/parsing-video@v0.4.0Pins v0.4.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
parsing-video/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.4.0, committed Jul 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 9,386 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Interpret video content visually by sampling frames into timestamped contact sheets that can be read as images. Use when: user asks what happens in a video; asks to summarize, describe, review, or QA video content or footage; asks about scenes, actions, people, or objects in a video; needs a storyboard-style overview of a clip; asks to find where something occurs in a video. Triggers on 'watch this video', 'what's in this video', 'summarize the video', 'describe the footage', 'contact sheet'…
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
# Parsing Video Claude cannot play video, but it can read images. To interpret a video, sample frames evenly across its duration, tile them into timestamped **contact sheets**, and Read the sheets. A 4×4 sheet compresses ~16 moments into one image, preserving narrative flow — what changed, in what order, roughly when. Requires ffmpeg/ffprobe (`apt-get update && apt-get install -y ffmpeg` if missing). ## Workflow ### 1. Probe first ```bash ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams input.mp4 ``` Note duration, resolution, and whether there's an audio stream. Duration drives how many sheets you need. ### 2. Generate contact sheet(s) ```bash python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 # 1 sheet, 4x4, whole video python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 --sheets 3 # 48 frames across 3 sheets python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 --start 120 --end 300 # zoom into 2:00–5:00 python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 --grid 3x3 --tile-width 500 # fewer, larger tiles ``` …
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How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/parsing-video@sha256:c7a5f2be524300f0The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4.0, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 18, 2026.
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| v0.4.0 latest | 2026-07-18 | d9473c9 | 9,386 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-07-18 | 7917c54 | 7,872 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5uu5utbv42pkclax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/parsing-video GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c7a5f2be524300f03cab4fbafaf4e200e0a9b3288c5db7b9bdc20e46e5ef8554
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