Videodb Skills

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**The only perception skill your agent needs.**

Works with **Claude Code**, **Cursor**, **Copilot**, and other AI agents

**[📚 Explore the Docs](https://docs.videodb.io)**   **[ Watch Demos ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhxAMFLSSK01IONxpqtEqj0UUQyFswiaR)**

Why add this Skill

This skill gives your agent one consistent interface to:

• **See**: Realtime desktop screen, mic and system audio, RTSP streams, ingest files, URLs, YouTube.

• **Understand**: Visual understanding, transcribe, index and search moments with playble clips

• **Act**: Stream results, trigger alerts on live feeds, edit timelines, generate subtitles and overlays, export clips.

What it does

VideoDB Skills lets your AI coding agent run end to end, server-side video workflows in real time and batch:

• Capture desktop screen, mic, and system audio for real time processing.
• Upload and process RTSP streams, videos from YouTube, URLs, and local files.
• Create realtime context of visual and spoken information.
• Index and search spoken words and visual scenes anytime.
• Generate transcripts, subtitles, and AI media.
• Edit clips, overlays, and exports server side.

Return playable HLS links for anything you build.

Get Started

Get started in two quick steps. Open your AI coding agent (Requires **Python 3.9+**) and follow along.

Step 1: Install the skill

npx skills add video-db/skills

Or install with Claude Code plugin:

/plugin marketplace add video-db/skills
/plugin install videodb@videodb-skills

Step 2: Setup

/videodb setup

The agent will guide setup for your [VideoDB API key](https://console.videodb.io) ($20 free credits, no credit card required), install the SDK, and verify the connection.

For Cursor, Copilot, and other agents, ask your agent to **"setup videodb"**

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