Watch a video from YouTube, Instagram, X/Twitter, Vimeo, TikTok or any of ~1800 yt-dlp sites (or a local path). Downloads with yt-dlp, extracts auto-scaled frames with ffmpeg, pulls the transcript from captions (or local mlx-whisper fallback, no API key), and hands the result to Claude so it can answer questions about what's in the video.
How to install watch?
mathiaschu/watch
$npx -y skills add mathiaschu/watch --skill watchInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/mathiaschu/watch" --skill "mathiaschu/watch"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/mathiaschu/watch" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/mathiaschu/watch"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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