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 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "uditakhourii-cdaf--reproduce-sidecar-vs-direct-benchmark",
 "repo": "UditAkhourii/cdaf",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/UditAkhourii/cdaf",
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 "title": "Reproduce the sidecar vs direct video benchmark",
 "page_title": "How to reproduce the sidecar vs direct video benchmark with Cdaf",
 "summary": "Run the repo's synthetic benchmark to check the token and accuracy numbers yourself.",
 "who": "A researcher or engineer who wants to verify the accuracy and token claims before adopting the format.",
 "problem": "Published token savings are hard to trust without seeing the same measurement run on your own machine.",
 "outcome": "You get a RESULTS.md report comparing direct video answers with sidecar answers on the same questions.",
 "steps": [
  "Install ffmpeg so the benchmark can synthesize test videos.",
  "Run `python benchmarks/bench.py make` to synthesize the testset.",
  "Run `python benchmarks/bench.py run` with GEMINI_API_KEY set to query both conditions through Gemini.",
  "Run `python benchmarks/bench.py report` to write benchmarks/RESULTS.md."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the repo UditAkhourii/cdaf, run the benchmark steps `python benchmarks/bench.py make`, `run`, and `report` in order, and write the results to benchmarks/RESULTS.md. Verify that the report lists accuracy and mean prompt tokens for both the direct video condition and the CDAF sidecar condition.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Advanced",
 "time": "45 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The benchmark uses synthesized videos with known colors, hard cuts, and word overlays, so its results do not yet show performance on natural footage.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.10 or newer",
  "Node.js with npx for the agent skill install",
  "A Gemini API key (bring your own) for generating sidecars, or the local provider for no-key generation",
  "ffmpeg, only if you run the synthetic benchmark"
 ],
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 "mentioned_publicly": false,
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 "best": false,
 "score": 0.7,
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