Videodb Skills — Development skill for Claude Code
See, understand, and act on video & audio — ingest, search, edit, generate, and stream media via VideoDB.
How to install Videodb Skills
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open video-db/skills and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Videodb Skills does
This skill gives your agent one consistent interface to:
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README
[](https://github.com/video-db/skills/stargazers) [](https://github.com/video-db/videodb-python/issues) [](https://videodb.io)
**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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