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Your AI agents can write code and automate tasks brilliantly. But they’re missing one critical capability: the ability to work with video and audio - capturing screens, searching through recordings, editing clips, and streaming results. VideoDB Skills give agents like Claude Code and Codex the power to execute server-side video workflows, turning text-only agents into multimodal collaborators.

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Install VideoDB Skills

Get video and audio perception in your agent with one command: Then run /videodb setup to configure your API key and verify connectivity.

VideoDB Skills on GitHub

Complete source code, installation guide, and configuration examples

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Prerequisites

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VideoDB API Key

Get a free API key from console.videodb.ioNo credit card required. Free tier includes 50 uploads.
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System Requirements

  • Python 3.9+
  • Platform: macOS, Linux, Windows (PowerShell)
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Set Your API Key

Export your API key in your shell:
Or add it to a .env file in your project root.

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What It Does

VideoDB Skills is a perception capability that enables See → Understand → Act, as an API, for video and audio. It gives agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor the ability to execute server-side video workflows. One unified interface for:
  • See - Capture desktop screens, microphone/system audio, RTSP streams, and ingest files, URLs, and YouTube content
  • Understand - Visual analysis, transcription, indexing, and searching moments with playable clips
  • Act - Stream results, trigger alerts, edit timelines, generate subtitles/overlays, and export clips

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Why Use It

Execute video operations without local ffmpeg installation:
  • Upload from YouTube, URLs, or local files
  • Trim, merge, clip, overlay text/images/audio
  • Transcode, reframe, adjust resolution and aspect ratio
  • Get instant playable HLS links via built-in CDN

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Quick Start

Ask your agent to execute video tasks:

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Capabilities

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Example: OpenClaw Monitoring

VideoDB Skills powers OpenClaw Monitoring - “CCTV for AI agents” that monitors, records, and audits autonomous agent sessions. Every agent run becomes a live stream, replayable recording, and searchable archive.

OpenClaw Monitoring on GitHub

See how VideoDB Skills enables visual observability for autonomous agents

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Next Steps

Capture SDK Overview

Deep dive: channels, permissions, client code, and event handling

Real-time Context

How real-time indexing and search works

AI Copilot Examples

Explore more AI copilot projects and use cases

Quickstart

Try desktop perception with a hosted OpenClaw agent