taoufik123-collab/claude-watch

Give Claude the ability to watch any video.

Paste a URL or a local file and Claude watches it — scene-change frame extraction (one frame per cut instead of every-N-seconds), a 0-10s hook microscope (dense frames + word-level Whisper on the opening, where every video earns or loses your attention), and optional Obsidian auto-save so a watched video becomes a connected wiki entry without copy-paste.

▶ Watch the skill in action (this video is where /watch was born):

claude.ai (web): download watch.skill and drop it into Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

Zero config to start — yt-dlp and ffmpeg install on first run via brew on macOS (Linux/Windows print exact commands). Captions cover most public videos for free. Whisper API key is only needed when a video has no captions. Set $WATCH_VAULT_DIR to point at your Obsidian vault for auto-save, or leave it unset and the skill skips the ingest step quietly.

The core pipeline — yt-dlp download, ffmpeg frames, Groq/OpenAI Whisper backends, the --start/--end focused mode, the SessionStart hook, the multi-surface install — comes from the original claude-video project and works unchanged (see Credits).

Claude can read a webpage, run a script, browse a repo. What it can't do, out of the box, is watch a video. You paste a YouTube link and it has to either guess from the title or pull a transcript that's missing 90% of what's on screen.