What /watch is
/watch is a free, open-source skill for Claude Code, made by bradautomates on GitHub, with over 17,000 stars. A skill is an add-on that teaches Claude a new job. This one teaches it to watch videos.
Normally Claude can't open a video link. With /watch, you paste a link, ask a question, and Claude answers from what is actually on screen and what is actually said. It grabs a picture every time the scene changes, pulls a transcript with a timestamp on every line, and then looks at every one of those pictures itself.
- Works with YouTube, Loom, TikTok, Instagram, X, Vimeo and many more sites, plus video files on your computer
- Uses the video's own captions first, so most public videos need no extra keys
- Every answer comes with timestamps, so you can jump straight to the moment
- Free and open source under the MIT licence
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Get the full setup steps + the copy-paste setup prompt
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Unlocks: Set it up · How to use it · What it can't see (and the fixes)
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