watch-video

# /watch-video — Transcribe and analyze any video at the depth you choose Replaces and broadens the prior `youtube-transcript` skill. YouTube is now one of many sources; depth is user-controlled. ## Step 1 — Parse input Accept: - **YouTube**: full URL, `youtu.be/<id>`, `youtube.com/shorts/<id>`, raw 11-char ID - **Loom**: `loom.com/share/<id>` or `loom.com/embed/<id>` - **Vimeo**: `vimeo.com/<id>` - **Riverside**: download URL or local file - **Zoom**: local `.mp4` from a downloaded recording - **X / IG / TikTok video**: URL — defers to `social-fetch` for metadata, uses yt-dlp for the file - **Local file**: any path to an `.mp4` / `.mov` / `.webm` / `.mkv` Detect source from URL pattern or file extension. If ambiguous, ask. ## Step 2 — Parse depth mode | Invocation | Mode | What you get | |---|---|---| | `/watch-video <url>` | **transcript** (default) | Clean text, metadata, optional chapters | | `/watch-video <url> transcript` | transcript | Same as default | | `/watch-video <url> visual` | visual | Transcript + frames at intervals + Claude vision pass identifying key moments | | `/watch-video <url> multimodal` | multimodal | Native video to Gemini (if `$GEMINI_API_KEY`), else dense Claude vision frame-by-frame | If the depth isn't specified and the video is >10 minutes, ask before defaulting (visual/multimodal cost real money on long videos). ## Step 3 — Pull metadata For URL sources, use yt-dlp: ```bash yt-dlp --print "%(title)s|%(uploader)s|%(duration_string)s|%...