Setup4 operations

`install-media-tools`

Detect, verify, and install media processing binaries (ffmpeg, ImageMagick, exiftool, tesseract, yt-dlp, uv) on macOS and Linux. Use before other mediaskills when doctor reports missing tools, when ffprobe/ffmpeg is not found, or when setting up a fresh dev machine or CI runner.

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Overview

Bash scripts only — no uv required. Uses python3 for JSON output (stdlib). install.sh may invoke brew or apt with elevated privileges on Linux.

Recipes

Copy-paste command sequences agents can run via uv run.

Check what's installed

bash skills/install-media-tools/scripts/doctor.sh

Example JSON output

{"ok": true, "op": "install-media-tools.doctor", "data": {"healthy": false, "installed": ["ffmpeg", "ffprobe"], "missing": ["convert", "exiftool", "tesseract", "yt-dlp", "uv"], "platform": "darwin"}, "output_paths": []}

Install via script (macOS or Debian/Ubuntu)

bash skills/install-media-tools/scripts/install.sh

List detected tools only

bash skills/install-media-tools/scripts/detect-tools.sh

Resolve a binary path

bash skills/install-media-tools/scripts/which.sh --tool ffmpeg
# or
bash skills/install-media-tools/scripts/which.sh --args '{"tool": "ffmpeg"}'

Operations

Each script returns structured JSON — see the script contract.

Op ID	Script	Common flags
`install-media-tools.detect_tools`	`detect-tools.sh`	—
`install-media-tools.doctor`	`doctor.sh`	—
`install-media-tools.install`	`install.sh`	—
`install-media-tools.which`	`which.sh`	—

Do not use for

Media processing itself (install tools, then use other skills)
Windows auto-install (manual ffmpeg/uv install on Windows)