# TwelveLabs Video Understanding — tool skill for research & trends

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.

- **Type:** [Tool](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [Research & trends](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/research.md)
- **Slug:** `twelvelabs`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** TwelveLabs (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/twelvelabs-io/twelve-labs-claude-code-plugin
- **Works in:** Claude Code
- **Requires:** TwelveLabs API key
- **Cost:** Billed by TwelveLabs
- **Adoption:** 26 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

The official TwelveLabs plugin: index videos, search them by text or image ("a slow push-in on a face at night"), and run Pegasus analysis for scenes, summaries and structured metadata with timestamps. Good for building a searchable reference library out of footage you own.

## Use when

- Find the shot I remember in a pile of footage
- Analyze a video into timed scenes
- Search references by description

## Install

- Claude Code: `/plugin marketplace add twelvelabs-io/twelve-labs-claude-code-plugin && /plugin install twelvelabs@twelvelabs-plugins`

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- [Firecrawl MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/firecrawl-mcp.md): Search, scrape and crawl web pages into clean text for your agent.