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tao-generate-video-reasoning-annotations

Multi-step video annotation pipeline that turns raw videos into Chain-of-Thought training data — multi-level captions, structured descriptions, and QA pairs (MCQ, binary, open-ended) with reasoning traces, via VLM/LLM distillation. Use when the user wants to "create video training data", "generate video QA datasets", "build CoT reasoning traces from videos", "auto-label videos", or run the video_reasoning_annotation pipeline. Triggers include "video annotation", "video CoT", "video QA", "chain-of-thought", "video captioning pipeline", "video distillation".

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# Video Reasoning Annotation Pipeline

> **Standalone install?** If this session was not initialized by the TAO skill bank plugin, run the `tao-setup` skill first (host preflight, credentials, cross-skill discovery).

Generate Chain-of-Thought training datasets from videos by producing multi-level captions, structured descriptions, and QA pairs (MCQ, binary, open-ended) with step-by-step reasoning traces. Domain-agnostic by default — customize prompts for any video domain.

## Purpose

Transform raw videos into CoT Q&A training data for video understanding models. VLMs (e.g., Gemini, Qwen) act as "teacher" annotators: Steps 0–1 require the model to see the video (VLM calls); Steps 2–3 are text-to-text (cheaper LLM calls).

## Pipeline architecture

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Step 0:  [Optional] Filter & classify videos  → Keep domain-relevant, classify anomaly vs normal