nemostation 0.1.1

Find moments in your videos. Agent-first CLI for Marlin-2B: dense captioning + temporal grounding, local or hosted.

marlin

Find moments in your videos. marlin is the agent-first CLI for Marlin-2B — a 2B video VLM for dense captioning + temporal grounding. Runs free on your Mac (Apple Silicon) or NVIDIA GPU (MLX / vLLM), or against NemoStation hosted inference with one env var.

uv tool install nemostation           # or: pipx install nemostation
marlin setup                          # auto-detects Apple Silicon / NVIDIA / hosted
marlin engine install                 # local only — builds the engine for your machine
marlin index ./footage                # caption + embed (resume-safe)
marlin find "deer crossing the road"  # exact clip, model-verified timestamps

Why timestamps are right here

Search is two-stage: coarse retrieval over timestamped dense captions, then Marlin temporal grounding inside the winning 30s chunks. Grounding short chunks matches the model's training distribution (and sidesteps vLLM's long-video timestamp bug), so spans land where the event actually is.

Agents

marlin skills install        # → .claude/skills/ + .agents/skills/

Every verb honors --json (auto when piped), long indexes run with --async + marlin status <job_id>. See skills/video-search/SKILL.md.

How it runs (auto-detected)

	Apple Silicon	NVIDIA	hosted
engine	SGLang-MLX	vLLM	Modal (vLLM), scale-to-zero
serve	marlin serve — auto-starts on first find	marlin serve	deploy/modal_app.py
auth	none (weights gated: 1-click form)	none	MARLIN_API_KEY
config	marlin setup --local	marlin setup --local	marlin setup --hosted --base-url … --api-key …

Non-interactive/agent path: set MARLIN_BASE_URL (+ MARLIN_API_KEY if hosted) — env always beats ~/.marlin/config.json.

Speech

marlin index --stt adds faster-whisper speech rows to the same index (pip install 'nemostation[stt]') — search meetings by what was said and what happened in one query.

Status

v0.1 — base + video-search skill. Verified end-to-end against a live endpoint; more skills (footage-catalog, dashcam-event-finder, clip-scorer) ride the same verbs next.