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 "schema_version": 1,
 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "uditakhourii-cdaf--stop-agents-rewatching-footage",
 "repo": "UditAkhourii/cdaf",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/UditAkhourii/cdaf",
 "repo_slug": "uditakhourii-cdaf",
 "title": "Stop coding agents from re-watching the same footage",
 "page_title": "How to stop coding agents from re-watching the same footage with Cdaf",
 "summary": "Install the CDAF skill and generate sidecars so Claude Code reads text instead of video.",
 "who": "A developer using Claude Code on a video project who sees the agent re-analyze the same clips every session.",
 "problem": "Each time an agent touches a video, it runs a full video-understanding pass, which costs tokens and time.",
 "outcome": "Each clip gets one .cdaf sidecar, and later agent sessions check its hash and read the text description first.",
 "steps": [
  "Run `npx cdaf-skill` to install the agent skill for all your projects.",
  "Run `pip install \"cdaf[generate] @ git+https://github.com/UditAkhourii/cdaf.git#subdirectory=cli\"` to install the CLI with the generator.",
  "Run `export GEMINI_API_KEY=your-key` (PowerShell: `$env:GEMINI_API_KEY=\"your-key\"`).",
  "Run `cdaf generate ./footage` to describe every video and skip fresh sidecars.",
  "Run `cdaf status ./footage` to confirm each video reports FRESH."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Using the CDAF skill in the repo UditAkhourii/cdaf, check <footage-folder> for a .cdaf sidecar next to each video, verify the bytes and sha256 header against the video, and read the sidecar instead of watching any fresh video. Report the list of videos with their status (FRESH, STALE, or MISSING) and confirm that you did not run a video analysis on any FRESH file.",
 "agents": [
  "claude-code"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The skill and CLI only reduce repeat analysis after a sidecar exists, so the first pass over each video still costs a full generation.",
 "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"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [
  {
   "tag": "credentials",
   "notice": "Your Gemini API key is read from the GEMINI_API_KEY environment variable, so keep it out of shared shell history and committed files."
  }
 ],
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 "score": 1.0,
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 "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/uditakhourii-cdaf/stop-agents-rewatching-footage/",
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