watch

v0.2.0

Let Claude watch a video. Downloads with yt-dlp, extracts auto-scaled frames with ffmpeg, pulls captions or falls back to Whisper, and hands frames + transcript to Claude so it can answer questions about the video.

CodexClaude Code1 Skill

By Bradley BonannoLicense: MIT17.6k GitHub starsUpdated 2 months ago

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Runtimes: Codex and Claude Code
Parsed components: 1 skill or MCP entry
Source updated: Jul 1, 2026
Manifest status: Canonical path parsed

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Install watch for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user

codex plugin marketplace add bradautomates/claude-video
codex plugin marketplace upgrade claude-video
codex plugin add watch@claude-video

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the claude-video catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “watch” remain stable.

Codex: watch@agent-plugin-marketplace → watch@claude-video

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Get the source manually

$ git clone https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

watch/

├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/watch/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

watchskills/watch/SKILL.md

Watch a video (URL or local path). Downloads with yt-dlp, extracts auto-scaled frames with ffmpeg, pulls the transcript from captions (or Whisper API fallback), and hands the result to Claude so it can answer questions about what's in the video.

Plugin manifests2

.codex-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "watch",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Let Claude watch a video. Downloads with yt-dlp, extracts auto-scaled frames with ffmpeg, pulls captions or falls back to Whisper, and hands frames + transcript to Claude so it can answer questions about the video.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Bradley Bonanno"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video",
  "repository": "https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "video",
    "watch",
    "youtube",
    "vimeo",
    "tiktok",
    "transcription",
    "whisper",
    "yt-dlp",
    "ffmpeg",
    "multimodal",
    "frames"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "watch",
    "shortDescription": "Give Claude a video input — paste a URL or path and ask about it.",
    "longDescription": "watch adds a skill that lets the agent watch any video: it downloads with yt-dlp, extracts auto-scaled frames with ffmpeg, pulls a timestamped transcript from native captions (or the Whisper API as a fallback), and hands frames + transcript to the model so it can answer questions grounded in what's actually on screen and in the audio.",
    "developerName": "Bradley Bonanno",
    "category": "Productivity",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive",
      "Read"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "/watch https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ what happens at the 30 second mark?",
      "/watch ~/Movies/screen-recording.mp4 when does the UI break?",
      "/watch https://youtu.be/<long-talk> summarize this"
    ],
    "brandColor": "#E11D48"
  }
}

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "watch",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Let Claude watch a video. Downloads with yt-dlp, extracts auto-scaled frames with ffmpeg, pulls captions or falls back to Whisper, and hands frames + transcript to Claude so it can answer questions about the video.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Bradley Bonanno"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video",
  "repository": "https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "video",
    "watch",
    "youtube",
    "vimeo",
    "tiktok",
    "transcription",
    "whisper",
    "yt-dlp",
    "ffmpeg",
    "multimodal",
    "frames"
  ]
}