yt-shorts
Find the Shorts hiding inside a long video and write them, using the transcript to pick self-contained moments.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code
- Source
- YouTube agent skill (Jake Schincariol) @ a2feb2104981
- Path
- skills/yt-shorts/SKILL.md
- Jobs
- Implementation
- Topics
- YouTube, Short-form video
Credit
- Made by
- Jakeschincariol
- Original
- github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill/blob/a2feb2104…
- License
- MIT
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InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- .claude/skills/yt-shorts/ (the skill folder)
- Runs scripts
- None found
- Uses the network
- None found
- Needs secrets
- None found
- Source revision
- a2feb2104981
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- 16 Sep 2026
- Review
- Reviewed
Found by a static scan of the stored text; nothing is run. “None found” is not a guarantee, so read what you install before you run it.
- Only the main file is read; other files in the folder are not scanned
# yt-shorts A Short cut out of a long video is not a clip of the best moment. It is a moment that **survives without the video around it**, which is a much smaller set. ## Picking Read the transcript and find spans of 20-55 seconds where all three are true: 1. It opens on a complete thought. If the first sentence needs the previous minute, it is not a Short. 2. There is a turn in it - a claim, then something that complicates or proves it. 3. It ends on a line, not a trail-off. Rank the candidates and show the user the top five with their timecodes and first line, so they can reject one without reading the whole transcript. ## Writing each one - **A NEW first line.** The long video's line assumes context this viewer does not have. Write the replacement and run it through `../yt-script/hookscore.py`. - **On-screen text for the first two seconds**, different words from the spoken line. - **A loop point**: what the last line sets up so the first line answers it. - Vertical framing note - what gets cropped out of a 16:9 frame and whether that matters. ## The gate Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user …