asking-with-evidence

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The user asks a question about a video that was already watched or indexed — "what did they say about X", "what error code appears", "what happens at 2:30", "does the video show Y". Use this to answer from the persistent index with timestamped evidence and a confidence score instead of re-watching or guessing.

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Sourceoxbshw/watch-skill

Added on2026-08-14

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Asking with evidence

Every watched video sits in a persistent index. Questions about it are answered from that index — text first, frames only when needed — with timestamps, a confidence score, and an honest refusal when the video does not show the answer. Never re-run a watch for a follow-up.

Answer a question

bash

watch-skill ask <video_id-or-original-url> "<question>"

Any language works; the answer comes back in the language of the question. The engine escalates on its own when unsure (dense re-sampling, zoom-crop re-OCR, stronger model) and prints a

~N tokens saved

line.

Three rules for reading the result:

Cite the timestamps it gives you; they are real evidence, not decoration.
Trust the refusal. When it says the video does not clearly show the answer, that is the answer. Do not invent one past it.
Frame paths are listed only when the engine wants you to look yourself — Read them then (or force with
```
--frames
```
).

"What happens at 2:30?"

Moment questions get a dense window, not a whole-video ask:

bash

watch-skill moment <video_id> 2:30 [--window 10]

Returns frames + transcript + OCR around that timestamp.

Don't know which video? Search them all

bash

watch-skill search "<phrase>"

Hybrid keyword + semantic search across every video ever watched, with per-script normalization (Arabic folding, CJK segmentation, Thai segmentation). Follow a hit with

ask

or

moment

on that video.

When the user corrects you

Report it so the next answer is better — see the

learning-from-mistakes

skill.

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Asking with evidence

Answer a question

"What happens at 2:30?"

Don't know which video? Search them all

When the user corrects you