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Yt shorts skill

Find the Shorts hiding inside a long video and write them, using the transcript to pick self-contained moments.

by Jakeschincariol·MIT license·★ 1,136 Stars on the repo·GitHub ↗

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SKILL.md · the author's own words
# 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.

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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 copies, and the last line of every run is the question: ship it, or change it?

1---
2name: yt-shorts
3description: >-
4 Find the Shorts hiding inside a long video and write them, using the
5 transcript to pick self-contained moments. Use for "cut this into shorts",
6 "clip this", "repurpose this video", "what should I clip".
7---
8 
9# yt-shorts
10 
11A Short cut out of a long video is not a clip of the best moment. It is a moment that **survives
12without the video around it**, which is a much smaller set.
13 
14## Picking
15 
16Read the transcript and find spans of 20-55 seconds where all three are true:
17 
181. It opens on a complete thought. If the first sentence needs the previous minute, it is not a Short.
192. There is a turn in it - a claim, then something that complicates or proves it.
203. It ends on a line, not a trail-off.
21 
22Rank the candidates and show the user the top five with their timecodes and first line, so they can
23reject one without reading the whole transcript.
24 
25## Writing each one
26 
27- **A NEW first line.** The long video's line assumes context this viewer does not have. Write the
28 replacement and run it through `../yt-script/hookscore.py`.
29- **On-screen text for the first two seconds**, different words from the spoken line.
30- **A loop point**: what the last line sets up so the first line answers it.
31- Vertical framing note - what gets cropped out of a 16:9 frame and whether that matters.
32 
33## The gate
34 
35Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user
36copies, and the last line of every run is the question: **ship it, or change it?**
37 

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