Overview
Give Claude the power to watch any video! The /watch skill transforms how AI interacts with visual content by enabling Claude to process and understand videos from URLs or local files. It intelligently downloads, extracts relevant frames, transcribes audio, and feeds this multimodal information directly into Claude's context, allowing for nuanced answers grounded in what's actually seen and heard.
Key Features
- Universal Video Ingestion: Works with a vast array of video sources via
yt-dlp, including YouTube, TikTok, Loom, X, Instagram, and local files (.mp4,.mov, etc.). - Intelligent Frame Extraction: Leverages scene-aware frame extraction or fast keyframes, with intelligent frame deduplication to optimize token usage and ensure distinct visual information is processed.
- Multimodal Transcription: Utilizes free, native captions whenever available, falling back to Whisper API (Groq or OpenAI) for audio transcription when necessary.
- Optimized Token Efficiency: Dynamically adjusts frame extraction based on video duration and user-defined detail modes to manage token costs effectively.
- Grounded AI Responses: Claude's answers are based on the actual visual and auditory content of the video, not just metadata or assumptions.
- Seamless Integration: Easily installable across various AI development environments like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini CLI via the Agent Skills framework.
Typical Use Cases
- Content Analysis: Deconstruct viral videos, ad creatives, or competitor launches by asking Claude to identify hooks, analyze structure, or summarize key takeaways.
- Bug Diagnosis: Provide screen recordings of software issues and let Claude pinpoint the exact moment and visual context of the bug, often identifying the root cause without manual inspection.
- Efficient Summarization: Quickly get comprehensive summaries of long videos, podcasts, or tutorials by having Claude process both the visuals and the spoken content.
- Information Extraction: Extract specific details from videos, such as tool mentions in tutorials or new features in product announcements, cutting through marketing hype.
- Knowledge Management: Transform entire playlists or video courses into a searchable library of notes by generating per-video summaries grounded in their content.
