Video memory

SkillSearch

The user asks about videos watched in the past or across sessions — "have we watched anything about X", "which video showed that error", "what did that meeting decide", "search my videos", or a question that spans several videos. Use this to search and answer from the persistent cross-video index instead of saying you don't remember.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Video memory skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by oxbshw/watch-skill in skills/video-memory/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Every video ever watched on this machine is still here — frames, OCR, transcripts, and past answers, in one persistent index under ~/.watch-skill/. You never have to say "I don't remember that video." Sessions don't expire it; watching more videos makes it more useful.

What's in the library?

watch-skill list

Every indexed video: id, title, duration, when it was analyzed. Check here before watching anything — it may already be in memory from a previous session.

Find something across all of it

watch-skill search "<phrase or keywords>"

Hybrid keyword + semantic search across every video, any language (Arabic folding, CJK and Thai segmentation are handled). Hits come back with video + timestamp; follow up on a hit with:

watch-skill ask <video_id> "<the user's actual question>"
watch-skill ask <video_id> "what is on screen at <timestamp>?"

Questions that span videos

"What did we decide about the pricing page across those meetings?" — questions no single video answers go to the library synthesizer:

watch-skill library ask "<the question>"

It answers from distilled notes across every indexed video, drills into real evidence, and cites video + timestamp for each finding. When it says the library does not clearly answer, trust that — do not stitch a guess together from weak search hits. watch-skill library overview shows what the library knows (videos, note counts, entities recurring across videos).

For "which video showed X" (locate, not synthesize), plain search is the right tool; then ask the hit video.

Batches build memory fast

A playlist or a folder of recordings goes in as one call — watch-skill batch "<playlist-or-folder>" — and the whole set becomes searchable memory (see watching-videos).

Signals

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