yt-edit
Turn a raw recording's transcript into an edit decision list - dead air, filler cues and retakes, with timecodes.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code
- Source
- YouTube agent skill (Jake Schincariol) @ a2feb2104981
- Path
- skills/yt-edit/SKILL.md
- Jobs
- Implementation
- Topics
- YouTube
Credit
- Made by
- Jakeschincariol
- Original
- github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill/blob/a2feb2104…
- License
- MIT
Listed by Skill Manifest; not made by us.
InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- .claude/skills/yt-edit/ (the skill folder)
- Runs scripts
- Yes
- deadair.py
- shell block in the text
- 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-edit An edit decision list from a timestamped transcript. It prints the cuts. You apply them. ```bash python3 deadair.py transcript.srt # srt, vtt or whisper json python3 deadair.py transcript.srt --floor 0.35 --json ``` No transcript yet? Ask for one, or produce one first - `whisper`, `faster-whisper`, or the caption track YouTube generates on an unlisted upload all work. Do not guess at timings. ## What it finds - **DEAD** - gaps longer than the floor, trimmed from the MIDDLE so both sides keep a breath. Cutting flush against speech is what makes a tightened take sound gasping. - **FILLER** - cues that are nothing but "um", "so yeah", "basically". - **REPEAT** - a sentence restarted. Compared against the last cue that was actually speech, not the literal previous cue, because most retakes have an "um" between the two attempts. ## What it will not do It does not touch media. It has no opinion about your B-roll. A 40% cut on the report is a 40% cut of SPEECH, and if the video has a long silent demo in it that number is wrong - check the report against the footage before you trust the runtime at the bottom. ## The gate …