yt-edit
Turn a raw recording's transcript into an edit decision list - dead air, filler cues and retakes, with timecodes. Use for "edit this", "cut the dead space", "tighten this video", "I rambled", or any request to shorten footage from a transcript.
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-editIs this agent skill safe to install?
- Gen Agent Trust Hubpass
The skill is a local utility for generating edit decision lists from transcripts. It uses standard Python libraries, performs no network activity, and includes safety measures like input parsing and text truncation.
- Socketpass
No alerts
- Snykpass
Risk: LOW · No issues
What does this agent skill do?
yt-edit
An edit decision list from a timestamped transcript. It prints the cuts. You apply them.
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
Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user copies, and the last line of every run is the question: ship it, or change it?
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
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