Research & trends: agent skills for AI video research and trends
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.
Trend scouting, reference search, video analysis and scrapers for your agent. 22 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.
How-to tutorials
- How to remake a reference video with AI: Take a reel or ad you like, break it down shot by shot, and remake the format for your brand.
- How to make trending AI video formats: What's going viral now — formats you can make for your brand today, with the skill for each.
Skills (22)
Styles (2)
- FrameThrower Film References — FrameThrower: Film stills from 5,489 films, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood.
- Are.na MCP — Are.na: Build and read Are.na moodboard channels from your agent.
Guides (1)
- Head of Content — Brad Bonanno, beta: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X outlier research, hook analysis and a content plan.
Models & tools (19)
- Video Skills Finder — varg: Finds the right skill for any AI video, image, voice or music job here and shows you the visual options.
- Apify MCP — Apify: Thousands of ready scrapers behind one MCP: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, hashtags, sounds.
- TwelveLabs Video Understanding — TwelveLabs: Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.
- Civitai MCP — Civitai: Top AI images and videos with prompts and base models, plus model search.
- Hugging Face MCP — Hugging Face: Trending models, Spaces and papers from Hugging Face inside your agent.
- Exa Search MCP — Exa: Neural web search and crawling for research agents.
- Firecrawl MCP — Firecrawl: Search, scrape and crawl web pages into clean text for your agent.
- Last 30 Days Research — Matt Van Horn: Researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN and the web for the last 30 days, with sources.
- Watch (video analysis) — Brad Bonanno: Gives the agent eyes on any video: download, scene-aware frames, timestamped transcript.
- YouTube MCP — Zubeid Hendricks: YouTube Data API over MCP: search, video and channel stats, transcripts.
- Reddit MCP Buddy — Karan: Browse and search Reddit from your agent: posts, rising threads, users. No API key needed.
- Trends MCP — Trends MCP: Live Google Trends plus growth data from TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and 30+ sources.
- TrendPulse MCP — AKzar1el: Free Google News + Google Trends MCP for keyword, market and content research.
- YouTube Transcript MCP — Junpei Kawamoto: Transcripts of any YouTube video for the agent: hooks, scripts, lyrics timing.
- Douyin Hot Trend — franklu0819-lang, beta: Fetches the Douyin hot list: rank, title, heat score, link and cover image for top topics
- Bilibili Hot Monitor — jacobzwj, beta: Daily email report of popular Bilibili videos, with subtitle-based AI summaries and comments
- Bilibili Transcribe & Summary — markusbetter, beta: Turns a Bilibili link into a transcript and summary: official subtitles first, cloud speech-to-text as fallback
- Douyin Trends — codekungfu, beta: Guide for reading public Douyin search, trending and creator pages and summarising likes, comments and shares
- Douyin Search and Hot List — um-why, beta: Read-only Douyin data as JSON: keyword search, creator posts and follower stats, comments and the live hot list.