Manage and monitor VSS alerts after the alerts profile is deployed. The deployment's mode (CV vs VLM real-time) is fixed at deploy time and determines the workflow — start/stop real-time alerts via the VSS Agent on a VLM deployment, onboard CV alerts by adding RTSP streams to VIOS on a CV deployment, query incidents, customize verifier prompts. Use when asked to start/stop a real-time alert, check or list alerts, add a camera, use a sample video for alerts, customize alert prompts, or view verdicts.
Deploy, debug, or tear down any VSS profile using a compose-centric workflow — config (dry-run) with env overrides, review resolved compose, then compose up. Use this skill when the user says "deploy vss", "deploy `profile`", "debug deploy", "verify deployment", or "why is my vss deploy broken".
Produce video analysis reports by discovering the deployed VSS agent, querying POST /generate for a timestamped captioned summary of the clip, then formatting the agent reply as the standard Video Analysis Report markdown.
Use this skill when working with the RTVI VLM or RT-VLM microservice API on VSS 3.1. Generate dense captions and alerts for stored video files and live RTSP streams via `/v1/generate_captions_alerts`; upload media via `/v1/files`; add and remove live streams with `/v1/streams/add` and `/v1/streams/delete/{stream_id}`; call OpenAI-compatible `/v1/chat/completions`; consume Kafka caption, incident, and error topics; or debug rtvi-vlm responses. For deployment, read `references/deploy-rt-vlm-service.md` first.
Query video analytics data and metrics from Elastic search via the VA-MCP server (port 9901). This includes incidents, alerts, sensor data, and metrics. Use for any question about violations, alerts, incidents, object counts, speeds, occupancy, or anything that requires looking up recorded events. This is the primary way to answer a question that requires incidents, alerts and other metrics such as people counts and violations.
Search video archives using natural language — find events, objects, actions, and people across recorded video using fusion search (Cosmos Embed1 semantic search + CV attribute search). Use when asked to search for something in video, find actions and events, locate objects and people, or query video archives. For these types of questions, default to this top-level fusion search unless user specifies otherwise. Requires the search profile to be deployed.
Summarize a video by calling the VLM NIM or the Long Video Summarization (LVS) microservice directly. For short videos (under 60s) call the VLM's OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint; for long videos (60s or longer) call the LVS microservice. Use when asked to summarize a video, describe what happens in a video, analyze a recording, call or debug LVS summarize/model/health/recommended-config/metrics endpoints, or configure and troubleshoot the LVS service that backs long-video summarization.
Call the vss agent to run video understanding on video to answer a text question. Use when the user asks about video content, or about visual details that cannot be answered from conversation history, search hits, or metadata alone.