{"slug": "binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill", "title": "binquery: a local CLI shortlist, now also an agent skill", "summary": "A developer has released binquery, a local Python CLI that indexes a user's video folder with ffmpeg and OpenCLIP, then encodes a natural-language query to return a shortlist of 8–15 candidate clips with path, score, gate, and reasons. The tool is designed to avoid full-library skims or auto-edits, and it can also be installed as an agent skill via npx or by copying the skill folder into .agents/skills or .claude/skills.", "body_md": "I cut from a local footage box. I wanted 8–15 candidates from one sentence, not a full-library skim and not an auto-edit.\n\nbinquery is a local Python CLI. You index your own folder with ffmpeg + OpenCLIP. query encodes only the sentence and prints a shortlist: path, score, gate, reasons. Limit is 8–15. People still watch.\n\nIt is not a browser. It is not on PyPI. Clone, then:\n\n```\npython3 -m venv .venv\n.venv/bin/pip install -e .\n```\n\nNeeds ffmpeg / ffprobe on the machine.\n\nAgents can install the instructions as a skill (this does not install the Python package):\n\n```\nnpx -y skills add jennifferweslowski-design/binquery\n```\n\nOr copy `skills/binquery/`\n\ninto `.agents/skills/binquery`\n\nor `.claude/skills/binquery`\n\n.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/harry_xu_74d04f7a971995d5/binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill-2pl1", "published_at": "2026-08-19 04:53:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 05:12:45.565682+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "machine-learning", "computer-vision", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["binquery", "OpenCLIP", "ffmpeg", "jennifferweslowski-design"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/binquery-a-local-cli-shortlist-now-also-an-agent-skill.jsonld"}}