watch SKILL.md skillA
watch from oxbshw/watch-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oxbshw/watch-skill/watch@v1.4.3Pins v1.4.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oxbshw/watch-skill
- Path
skills/watch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- v1.4.3, committed Sep 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 5,363 bytes
- Repository stars
- 508
- License
- MIT
Watch any video (URL, stream, or local path) via Watch Skill. Downloads, extracts scene-aware deduped frames, OCRs them, transcribes (captions first, then local Whisper — offline by default), indexes everything, and hands the result to the agent. Follow-up questions are answered from the persistent index without re-processing.
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 (Watch Skill) You don't have a video input; this skill gives you one. It is a thin wrapper around the `watch-skill` CLI — all logic lives in the engine, so this skill works identically on every harness (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ...). This is a drop-in upgrade of the classic claude-video `/watch` skill: same invocation shape, plus a persistent index (`ask` answers follow-ups without re-processing), OCR on frames, scene-aware sampling with perceptual dedup, local Whisper (offline by default, no API key needed), and THE LOOP (capture -> critique -> fix -> re-capture) for iterating on your own output. ## Step 0 — Preflight (first invocation per session) ```bash watch-skill doctor --json ``` - Exit 0 → proceed silently. Do NOT announce that setup is fine. - Non-zero → the JSON lists each failing check with a `fix`. `doctor` auto-bootstraps ffmpeg and yt-dlp into a managed bin dir on Windows/macOS/ Linux; re-run once after it reports fixes. Only involve the user when a check still fails after remediation. - If `watch-skill` itself is not on PATH: `pip install watch-skill` (or `uv tool install watch-skill`), then re-run the doctor. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oxbshw/watch-skill/watch@sha256:0a7b7a5be76f09cdThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.4.3, 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 8 versions of this file, between Aug 8, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.4.3 latest | 2026-09-08 | f1317c8 | 5,363 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.2 | 2026-09-08 | b6ee470 | 5,363 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.1 | 2026-09-07 | 8df6d4d | 5,363 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0 | 2026-09-05 | 1a53bae | 5,363 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0rc1 | 2026-09-02 | ab36fc4 | 5,366 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0rc2 | 2026-08-19 | db22dfd | 5,366 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0rc1 | 2026-08-19 | ba68f9f | 5,366 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-08-08 | c41ceaf | 5,363 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 (5363 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
oxbshw/watch-skill · 508 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aycfgrtpwdyxankl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oxbshw/watch-skill/watch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a7b7a5be76f09cd7350d03f399e1064ebfd9e3dab4562938242463738b2f61e
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.
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