yt-shorts
Find the Shorts hiding inside a long video and write them, using the transcript to pick self-contained moments. Use for "cut this into shorts", "clip this", "repurpose this video", "what should I clip".
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-shortsIs this agent skill safe to install?
- Gen Agent Trust Hubpass
The skill identifies highlight segments in video transcripts and evaluates them using a local script. It processes untrusted transcript data, which introduces a potential for indirect prompt injection, although it maintains human-in-the-loop oversight for final actions.
- Socketpass
No alerts
- Snykwarn
Risk: MEDIUM · 1 issue
What does this agent skill do?
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:
- It opens on a complete thought. If the first sentence needs the previous minute, it is not a Short.
- There is a turn in it - a claim, then something that complicates or proves it.
- 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 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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