watch-video

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By coreyhaines31/makerskills (GitHub) · media · 905 stars · scanned at commit b465319

When you want to extract content from a video — YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom recording, local MP4, X/IG video, anything yt-dlp supports. Three depth modes user picks per invocation — transcript (just words, fast/free), visual (transcript + ffmpeg frame extraction + Claude vision pass on key moments), multimodal (Gemini native video ingestion if $GEMINI_API_KEY set, else dense Claude vision). Uses local Whisper for transcription (MLX-Whisper on Apple Silicon, faster-whisper elsewhere), …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 11 places.

skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 41yt-dlp --skip-download --print "%(.{title,uploader,duration_string,upload_date,webpage_url,chapters,description})j" "<url>"
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 51ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "<file>"
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 78python3 -I - "<file>" "<workdir>/transcript" <<'PY'

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skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 97python3 -I - "<file>" "<workdir>/transcript" <<'PY'
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 116yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]" --merge-output-format mp4 -o "<workdir>/video.%(ext)s" "<url>"
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 124python3 -I - "<workdir>/transcript.en.vtt" "<workdir>/transcript.txt" <<'PY'
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 171mlx_whisper <file> --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo --output-dir <workdir> --output-format srt --condition-on-previous-text False
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 203mkdir -p "<workdir>/frames"
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 210ffmpeg -i "<workdir>/video.mp4" -vf "select='gt(scene,0.3)',showinfo" -fps_mode vfr "<workdir>/frames/scene-%04d.png" 2> "<workdir>/scene-detection.log"
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 222mkdir -p "<workdir>/dense"
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 295FILE_URI=$(curl -s -X POST "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" \

Can call paid AI services billed to you

The author does not mention this. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 2 places.

skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 295FILE_URI=$(curl -s -X POST "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" \
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 308curl -s -X POST "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash:generateContent?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" \

Sends data to these websites: generativelanguage.googleapis.com

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 3 places.

skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 295FILE_URI=$(curl -s -X POST "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" \
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 302STATE=$(curl -s "$FILE_URI?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" | jq -r '.state')
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 308curl -s -X POST "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash:generateContent?key=$GEMINI_API_KEY" \

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 395| No subtitles + Whisper not installed | Tell the user: `pip install mlx-whisper` (Apple Silicon) or `pip install faster-whisper` (anything else) |
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 396| ffmpeg missing (for visual/multimodal) | Tell the user: `brew install ffmpeg` |
skills/watch-video/SKILL.md, line 399| `yt-dlp` binary missing | `brew install yt-dlp` |

Safer alternatives

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'watch-video' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'watch-video' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named watch-video already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b465319a5e675a89ea9fd87a15191c9a8ad13649' -- 'skills/watch-video' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/watch-video' ~/.agents/skills/'watch-video' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'watch-video' ~/.claude/skills/'watch-video' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-10	`b465319`	67
2026-11-08	`0f20eaf`	67
2026-11-07	`0f20eaf`	47