Video QnA using VLM through VSS Agent

Use this skill when you need details about the video which requires VLM to look at the video frames — for example the agent has no usable prior answer and needs a fresh look at the pixels for a specific clip.

When to Use

• The user asks what happens in the video, what objects / people / actions appear, colors, timing, safety, or other visual facts that require watching the clip.
• The user asks for details that cannot be answered from existing messages, summaries, Elasticsearch/MCP results, or filenames alone—you need model inference on the video.
• Follow-up questions about content details after a coarse summary or after report generation.

Do not use this skill when a database / MCP / prior tool output already answers the question, unless the user explicitly wants verification against the video.

Deployment prerequisite

This skill requires a VSS profile that serves the video_understanding tool — typically base (recommended) or lvs. Before any request: