Video Vision

Give Claude the ability to watch and understand a local video file. The skill turns the video into two streams Claude can reason over directly:

1. Sampled frame images on disk — read on demand via the Read tool (Claude is multimodal).
2. A timestamped transcript from local Whisper — fully offline after the first model download.

Claude is the interpreter. The scripts are a deterministic perception layer.

When to use

Trigger whenever the user points at a video file and wants it understood: summarization, Q&A, captioning, finding a moment, explaining what's on screen, transcribing dialogue, or describing visuals. Also trigger when the user says "watch this" with a path, or drops a video path into the chat with any implied question.

Do not use for: streaming URLs (YouTube etc. — ask the user to download first with yt-dlp), live camera feeds, or pure audio files (use a transcription-only tool instead).

Requirements