watching-videos SKILL.md skillA
watching-videos 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/watching-videos@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/watching-videos/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- v1.4.3, committed Sep 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 2,417 bytes
- Repository stars
- 508
- License
- MIT
The user shared a video URL, a YouTube/TikTok/stream link, a local video file, a screen recording, a meeting recording, or a playlist/folder of videos — "watch this", "summarize this video", "what's in this recording". Use this to actually watch the video — download, extract frames, OCR, transcribe, and index it — instead of guessing from the title or asking the user to describe it.
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
# Watching videos You don't have a video input; this skill gives you one. Anything a user hands you — a YouTube link, a TikTok, a lecture, a meeting recording, a screen capture, an .mp4 on disk — goes through the same pipeline: frames (scene-aware, deduplicated), OCR, transcript (captions first, local Whisper offline fallback), all persisted into one index. ## Before watching: check the index ```bash watch-skill list ``` If the video was already analyzed — this session or any earlier one — do NOT watch it again. Ask it directly (see the `asking-with-evidence` skill): ```bash watch-skill ask <video_id> "<question>" ``` ## One video ```bash watch-skill watch "<url-or-path>" [--start T --end T] [--max-frames N] [--transcript-only] ``` - Works on any yt-dlp-supported site (1800+), direct media URLs, HLS/DASH manifests (`--duration 60` bounds live streams), and local files. - Video over ~10 minutes and the user cares about one part → use `--start`/`--end` for dense sampling of that window. - User only needs what was said → `--transcript-only` (fastest, often no video download at all). The report prints `Indexed: <video_id>`, frames with `t=MM:SS` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oxbshw/watch-skill/watching-videos@sha256:2631f6fe57a4bcdbThe 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 | 2,417 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.2 | 2026-09-08 | b6ee470 | 2,417 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.1 | 2026-09-07 | 8df6d4d | 2,417 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0 | 2026-09-05 | 1a53bae | 2,417 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0rc1 | 2026-09-02 | ab36fc4 | 2,420 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0rc2 | 2026-08-19 | db22dfd | 2,420 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0rc1 | 2026-08-19 | ba68f9f | 2,420 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-08-08 | c41ceaf | 2,417 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 (2417 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_fqtatq5jmlvkpeee GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oxbshw/watch-skill/watching-videos GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2631f6fe57a4bcdb12ad5193df6e163db6efe3ed50a7e3de67bbb645707510cb
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