Overcast presence window

Skill kdr/overcast/skills/overcast-presence-window

Video OSINT agent: senses + OSINT reach for any agent.

Install

npx -y skills add kdr/overcast --skill overcast-presence-window

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Find the interval a person or object is present — anchor one appearance, then sweep outward with face-match / detect until it drops off both sides.

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overcast-presence-window

Use this skill to answer "from when to when is <target> on screen?" — a first/last appearance interval, not a single instant. It anchors one confirmed appearance and expands until the target stops appearing, the presence-tracking analog of a temporal search. Use the broad overcast skill and overcast/reference/verbs.md for exact flags.

Workflow

Local clip + record id:

overcast doctor --json
overcast case init --json
overcast watch ./clip.mp4 --json        # -> record id REC

Anchor one appearance (whichever fits the target):

overcast face ./clip.mp4 --match ./person.jpg --json          # a specific person (similarity 0-100)
overcast grid ./clip.mp4 --count 16 --json                    # then see the montage for an object

Sweep outward from the anchor until K consecutive misses on each side:

# person: widen the window; --fps controls sample density (precision vs cost)
overcast face ./clip.mp4 --match ./person.jpg --start <a> --end <b> --fps 1 --min-similarity 55 --json
# object: step frames outward and check presence
overcast see frame://REC@<t> --prompt "Is <target> present? answer only yes or no" --json

Emit the presence interval(s) and show them:

overcast note "<target> present" --ref REC --at <first-last> --confidence medium --json
overcast view REC --at <first-last> --json
overcast brief --export ./presence.md --json

Output

One or more [first-last] intervals with the per-hit citations (record.id + media.at) that bound them, and the sample density used. If the target leaves and returns, report each interval separately rather than one span covering the gap.

Caveats

Sampled detections are per-frame, not continuous — presence between samples is inferred; raise --fps to tighten boundaries at higher cost. Occlusion or an off-camera moment splits one presence into several intervals — that's a real result, not noise. Face similarity is 0-100. Needs the video local.