Argus — A Browser-Local Long-Video Understanding Agent Harness
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Argus (named after Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant of Greek myth) is an open-source, long-video understanding agent harness I designed and built solo — frontend-only, no backend. Videos are decoded entirely in the browser, and users bring their own API keys and models. A multimodal LLM agent calls tools to “watch” the video itself: extracting frames, zooming into regions, taking notes, and spawning sub-agents. Typical scenarios: counting people in surveillance footage, or finding a specific object.