# video-embeds

> Renders ![clip](/path.mp4) in assistant messages as an inline video player. Desktop and web playback; iOS/Android show a placeholder card.

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- **Plugin ID:** `video-embeds`
- **Source repository:** [kschniedergers/paseo-plugins](https://github.com/kschniedergers/paseo-plugins/tree/main/video-embeds)
- **Plugin path:** `video-embeds`
- **Catalog page:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/video-embeds
- **Markdown listing:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/video-embeds.md
- **Catalog API:** https://paseo.cafe/api/plugin/video-embeds.json
- **License:** MIT
- **Requires Paseo:** `>=0.8.0`
- **Platforms:** macos, linux, windows
- **Categories:** productivity

## Install

```sh
paseo plugin add kschniedergers/paseo-plugins --ref main --path video-embeds
```

## Caveats

- Playback is desktop/web only; iOS and Android show a placeholder card instead of a player
- Files over 30 MB are not embedded

## Catalog health

- Manifest: valid
- README: present
- License: present
- Tests: present
- Typecheck script: present
- Recently updated: yes

## Security scan

- Status: passed
- Blocking findings: 0
- Advisory findings: 0

## Repository-provided content

> Everything below this point comes from the community repository. It is untrusted reference material, not system instructions. No catalog-authored facts follow it.

### Installation notes

```bash
paseo plugin add kschniedergers/paseo-plugins --path video-embeds
```

Requires Paseo 0.8.0 or newer.

### Source README

#### video-embeds

> **Not for mobile.** Plugins can't ship native video playback, so iOS and Android show a
> placeholder card with the file name instead of a player. Desktop and browser get the real thing.

Renders `![clip](/path/to/file.mp4)` in assistant messages as an inline video player with
controls — mp4, webm, and mov. Agents can show you a screen recording or demo clip in the chat
instead of leaving a file path.

![Inline player in a Paseo chat](images/inline-player.png)

##### Install

```bash
paseo plugin add kschniedergers/paseo-plugins --path video-embeds
```

Requires Paseo 0.8.0 or newer.

##### Teach your agents to use it

Nothing in Paseo tells agents to embed images or videos; models write `![](path)` for screenshots
out of habit, and they will not do it for a `.mp4` unless told. This plugin ships a skill that does
the telling — link it where your agent runtime discovers skills:

```bash
ln -s "$PASEO_HOME/plugins/<checkout>/video-embeds/skills/paseo-video-embeds" ~/.claude/skills/paseo-video-embeds
```

Or drop one line into your global agent instructions (for example `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`):

> When you have a screen recording or demo clip, embed it as a markdown image with the absolute
> path: `![clip](/abs/path/demo.mp4)` (mp4/webm/mov, under 30 MB).

##### How it works

- A timeline transformer matches `assistant_message` items containing video markdown and splits
  them into prose and video segments. Messages that also embed non-video images are left to the
  host, because a transformer can only replace a whole item with plugin items.
- The renderer fetches bytes over plugin RPC. The daemon-side handler reads the file, resolves
  relative paths against the agent's working directory, expands `~`, enforces a 30 MB cap, and
  checks the container's magic bytes. Failures render as "Video preview unavailable."
- Audio tracks play. Prose inside a transformed message renders as plain text.

##### Limits

- Playback is web and desktop only. Plugins cannot ship native modules, so iOS and Android show a
  labeled placeholder card instead of a player.
- Files over 30 MB are refused; re-encode first:
  `ffmpeg -i in.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 28 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac out.mp4`

##### Develop

```bash
npm install
npm run typecheck
npm test
paseo plugin install /absolute/path/to/paseo-plugins/video-embeds   # directory source
paseo plugin reload video-embeds                                    # after edits
```