nemostation 0.1.4

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 and local on Apple Silicon (MLX) or NVIDIA (vLLM) — no API key, no network for inference.

uv tool install nemostation                          # or: pipx install nemostation
marlin                                               # first run: detect Apple Silicon/NVIDIA + build the engine
marlin find "deer crossing the road" --in ./footage  # auto-indexes, then 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, local)

	Apple Silicon	NVIDIA
engine	SGLang-MLX	vLLM
serve	auto-starts on first find (or marlin serve)	same
weights	gated — 1-click access form	gated — 1-click form

No API key — inference is local. Agents use the same verbs with --json (clean stdout, progress on stderr). A hosted base_url swap lives in deploy/ for a future skill; it's not surfaced in the CLI yet.

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.