Shorts — Interactive Shortform Video Creator

What it does

Shorts is an interactive pipeline skill that turns long-form videos into platform-optimized short clips. It transcribes audio (faster-whisper), scores candidate segments with an AI rubric, presents selections for user approval, snaps boundaries to natural audio cut points, and renders animated captions via Remotion before exporting platform-specific encodings.

When to use it

Use when you want to extract viral-ready clips from longer videos (talking-heads, podcasts, screen recordings) while keeping human approval in the loop. Suitable for content creators who need captioned, reframed, and encoded vertical videos for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels.

What's included

• Scripts: Detailed pipeline steps for preflight checks, transcription, content-type detection, analysis, boundary snapping, reframe computation, Remotion rendering, and export.
• References: Scoring rubric and caption style references mentioned in the skill.
• Instructions: Step-by-step interactive flow with CLI examples, expected file locations, and error-recovery notes.

Compatible agents

Designed for Claude Code-style agents or any agent that can run Bash and Python scripts and interactively ask user questions. It relies on local tooling (ffmpeg, node/Remotion, Python).