watch-videolisted
Install: claude install-skill The-AIOS/aios
# Watch a video — comprehension, not ingestion
Someone shares a video and asks you about it. Two hooks make that possible, and **neither is discoverable on its own** — hooks have no semantic match, so a session asked to "watch this" finds nothing and improvises. That gap is the whole reason this skill exists.
## The boundary — read this first
> **This skill WATCHES. It does not FILE.** Its output is *understanding held in the session*, not a vault artifact. No note, no frontmatter, no cross-links, no `_index` update, no action-item routing. Working files go to a scratch path (`/tmp`), never to `vault/`.
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> **`/aios:ingest` is the filing pipeline** — it exists precisely so that turning a source into a permanent, wired-up vault note is a deliberate act with conventions. If the operator wants that, **hand off** (*"want me to `/aios:ingest` this so it lands in `reflections/ingests/` with the cross-links?"*) — do not half-implement it here. Two paths, one boundary, no overlap.
So the shape of a run is: **get it into context → do what was asked → offer, don't assume.** If the ask was open-ended (*"watch this"* with no question), watch it, then say what it is in two or three lines and ask what they want from it. Don't manufacture a deliverable nobody requested.
## Which tool — the actual decision
| The source | Reach for | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Document (PDF, docx, deck, sheet) | MarkItDown or the `document-skills` | Not this skill's job; those already match semantically |
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