watch-and-learn SKILL.md skillA
watch-and-learn from axel-pm/watch-n-learn is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add axel-pm/watch-n-learn/watch-and-learn@git:20260712.2f5051aPins git:20260712.2f5051a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- axel-pm/watch-n-learn
- Path
skills/watch-and-learn/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260712.2f5051a, committed Jul 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 7,458 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Watch a how-to / tutorial / demo video and turn the procedure it teaches into one or more working Claude Code skills. Use when the user wants to "turn this video into a skill", "watch this tutorial and make a skill", "learn how to do X from this video", "build a skill from this screencast/demo/talk", or capture a repeatable workflow shown in a video. Sends an agent to watch the video (local file or URL) with a local, free, no-API toolchain, breaks the procedure down, authors the skill(s), and…
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-and-learn Turn a video that *demonstrates a procedure* into a reusable Claude Code skill (or a small set of them), then prove the skill works. The video is the teacher; the output is a skill someone can invoke later without watching anything. Watching is local and free: `scripts/watch.py` extracts keyframes (PNG) + a labelled contact sheet and transcribes the audio (PyAV + faster-whisper, no API keys, no torch). See `references/watching.md` for how the engine works and its options. > **Placeholders:** `<this-skill>` = this skill's own directory (where this SKILL.md lives). `<file-or-URL>` = the video you're processing. ## Prerequisites (one-time per machine, usually already done) `watch.py` **self-locates its toolchain venv and re-execs into it** — no activation, and a plain `python3` invocation is fine (it finds the venv via `$VIDEO_WATCH_TOOLS`, a `tools/venv` up the directory tree, or `~/.video-watch-tools/venv`, which is where the bundled installer puts it). You normally do **nothing** here. Only if `watch.py` reports the toolchain is missing (a fresh machine) do you install it once: ```sh …
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How to install
mdr add axel-pm/watch-n-learn/watch-and-learn@sha256:f436a64aa16fc336The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260712.2f5051a, 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 12, 2026.
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| git:20260712.2f5051a latest | 2026-07-12 | 2f5051a | 7,458 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.eb4eb11 | 2026-07-12 | eb4eb11 | 6,568 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
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Source
axel-pm/watch-n-learn · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_62fymbco4hqphrvl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=axel-pm/watch-n-learn/watch-and-learn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f436a64aa16fc336fb68d3690d7d984749a93ca7bfd7eaf75a5fc15b8228ec2b
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.