Agentic video understanding

Hireable understanding layer. The model takes a goal and decides what to watch, at what speed, and through which modality (frames, audio, transcript), fetching only the moments needed. Vendor claims: up to ~66% lower cost and ~88% fewer tokens vs static fixed-FPS ingest, with higher accuracy.

What this is / is not

Is: goal → watch only what you need → timestamps + quotes + confidence.

Is not: a video editor. Do not cut, overlay, caption-burn, render, schedule, post, email, or write CRM from this skill. Hand cuts to Overlap, FFmpeg, or net-new-video-editor. Approvals stay with the calling lane.

When to use

• Pre-call / sales-call mining: buyer objection, next step, competitive mention
• Shortform scoring: find a 3-second standalone hook and in/out points
• Longform / X research: named-person + contrast moments in podcast or YouTube tape
• Talent review: bar evidence in a Loom or trial recording
• Client audit: every mention of a keyword across a discovery recording

Skip when the job is already a clean transcript and you only need text search.