Video Artifact Intake

Use this when an agent needs to understand what a repo produced before reviewing or comparing it.

This skill owns:

• resolving latest.json or LATEST.txt
• finding quality.json, verification.json, validate.json, score.json, publish.json, and other common artifacts
• locating the main MP4/WebM artifact
• probing the video with ffprobe when available

Inputs

Provide one or more bundle locators:

{
  "outputDir": "./output/example-run",
  "latestPointerRoot": "./output",
  "videoPath": "./output/example-run/output.mp4"
}

Use outputDir when you already know the run directory. Use latestPointerRoot when the repo maintains latest.json or LATEST.txt. Use videoPath when the video is outside the normal output directory. Paths may be relative to the current working directory.

Outputs

The result is a normalized bundle map with:

• rootDir: resolved run directory, or null if only a standalone video was provided.
• videoPath: primary video path if found.
• artifacts: known reports and files found under the root.
• reportStatuses: derived status for JSON reports with status, passed, or hasFailures fields.
• overallStatus: pass, warn, fail, or unknown.
• recommendedFocus: artifact-driven review areas.
• videoProbe: duration, dimensions, codec, and size when ffprobe succeeds.
• timeline.evidence.json: generated when timestamps.json, events.json, or subtitles.vtt exists in the bundle.
• video.shots.json: discovered when shot extraction has already been run for the bundle.
• segment.evidence.json: discovered when segment fusion has already been run for the bundle.

Sequencing Guidance

Run this before review-bundle, package-review-prompt, or compare-video-runs if you are unsure which directory or video should be reviewed. If storyboard artifacts are missing but a video is present, continue with storyboard-extract.

When timeline.evidence.json is present, inspect it before making sequence, caption, transcript, or action-timing claims. When video.shots.json is present, use it as a coarse part map before deep visual review. When segment.evidence.json is present, inspect it first for per-segment evidence availability and abstention signals.

Interpretation Notes

overallStatus: unknown usually means no recognizable JSON status reports were found; it is not a pass. reportStatuses are shallow summaries and do not replace reading the source reports when they warn or fail. videoProbe is optional because ffprobe may be unavailable or unable to parse the file.

Abstention Rules

Do not infer product behavior, UI quality, or correctness from intake alone. Abstain from quality judgments if the only evidence is a discovered video path and no review reports or storyboard artifacts.

Failure Modes

Missing or stale latest pointers can resolve the wrong run. If no video is found, check whether the repo uses nonstandard filenames and pass videoPath explicitly. If ffprobe is missing, the bundle can still be mapped but video metadata will be absent.

Repo-side runner:

node --import tsx scripts/harness/video-intake.ts

Installed-pack runner:

node ./.video-evaluator/agent/run-tool.mjs video-artifact-intake