watch-cli Video Agent Skill

Skill by ara.so — Devtools Skills collection.

What It Does

watch-cli gives AI agents the ability to "watch" social videos by decomposing them into frames (JPGs) + audio transcript, avoiding expensive multimodal video APIs. Works with YouTube, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, Vimeo, and Facebook. ~50× cheaper and ~5× faster than calling a multimodal LLM on full video.

The insight: Videos are just frames + audio. Extract both, read them separately with vision + text LLMs, and you have full video understanding without burning a video model on every frame.

Installation

# Quick install (symlinks to ~/.local/bin)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sonpiaz/watch-cli/main/install.sh | bash