vss-ask-video
vss-ask-video is an agent skill published by nvidia, listed under building agents. It lives in the NVIDIA/skills repository, which has 3,735 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This skill allows you to ask the VSS agent's video_understanding tool a new visual question about a recorded clip, but not for questions related to previous tool output, search results, or metadata.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads NVIDIA/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills
Maintenance
Use this skill to ask the VSS agent's video_understanding tool a fresh visual question about a recorded clip. Not for prior tool output, search hits, or metadata-answerable questions.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| vss-ask-video (this page) | nvidia | Use this skill to ask the VSS agent's video_understanding tool a fresh visual question about a recorded clip.… | 3,735 | 2026-10-26 |
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Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about vss-ask-video
- What does vss-ask-video do?
- This skill allows you to ask the VSS agent's video_understanding tool a new visual question about a recorded clip, but not for questions related to previous tool output, search results, or metadata.
- How do I install vss-ask-video?
- Run npx skills add NVIDIA/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes vss-ask-video?
- nvidia.
- Is vss-ask-video maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,735 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-26. The repository declares the Apache-2.0 licence.
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