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 BonannoMIT14.7kupdated 1 month ago

Source

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

Clone the source, then follow the repository's marketplace instructions for your runtime. The repository root is the plugin root.

Layout

watch/

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

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.

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"
  ]
}