# 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 `.md` to 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/remake-a-reference-video.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-trending-ai-video-formats.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/framethrower.md) — FrameThrower: Film stills from 5,489 films, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood.
- [Are.na MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/arena-mcp.md) — Are.na: Build and read Are.na moodboard channels from your agent.

### Guides (1)

- [Head of Content](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/head-of-content.md) — Brad Bonanno, beta: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X outlier research, hook analysis and a content plan.

### Models & tools (19)

- [Video Skills Finder](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-skills.md) — varg: Finds the right skill for any AI video, image, voice or music job here and shows you the visual options.
- [Apify MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/apify-mcp.md) — Apify: Thousands of ready scrapers behind one MCP: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, hashtags, sounds.
- [TwelveLabs Video Understanding](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/twelvelabs.md) — TwelveLabs: Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.
- [Civitai MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/civitai-mcp.md) — Civitai: Top AI images and videos with prompts and base models, plus model search.
- [Hugging Face MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/huggingface-mcp.md) — Hugging Face: Trending models, Spaces and papers from Hugging Face inside your agent.
- [Exa Search MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/exa-mcp.md) — Exa: Neural web search and crawling for research agents.
- [Firecrawl MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/firecrawl-mcp.md) — Firecrawl: Search, scrape and crawl web pages into clean text for your agent.
- [Last 30 Days Research](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/last30days.md) — Matt Van Horn: Researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN and the web for the last 30 days, with sources.
- [Watch (video analysis)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-video-watch.md) — Brad Bonanno: Gives the agent eyes on any video: download, scene-aware frames, timestamped transcript.
- [YouTube MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/youtube-mcp.md) — Zubeid Hendricks: YouTube Data API over MCP: search, video and channel stats, transcripts.
- [Reddit MCP Buddy](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/reddit-mcp-buddy.md) — Karan: Browse and search Reddit from your agent: posts, rising threads, users. No API key needed.
- [Trends MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/trends-mcp.md) — Trends MCP: Live Google Trends plus growth data from TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and 30+ sources.
- [TrendPulse MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/trendpulse.md) — AKzar1el: Free Google News + Google Trends MCP for keyword, market and content research.
- [YouTube Transcript MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/youtube-transcript-mcp.md) — Junpei Kawamoto: Transcripts of any YouTube video for the agent: hooks, scripts, lyrics timing.
- [Douyin Hot Trend](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/douyin-hot-trend.md) — franklu0819-lang, beta: Fetches the Douyin hot list: rank, title, heat score, link and cover image for top topics
- [Bilibili Hot Monitor](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/bilibili-hot-monitor.md) — jacobzwj, beta: Daily email report of popular Bilibili videos, with subtitle-based AI summaries and comments
- [Bilibili Transcribe & Summary](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/bilibili-video-transcribe-summary.md) — markusbetter, beta: Turns a Bilibili link into a transcript and summary: official subtitles first, cloud speech-to-text as fallback
- [Douyin Trends](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/douyin-trends.md) — codekungfu, beta: Guide for reading public Douyin search, trending and creator pages and summarising likes, comments and shares
- [Douyin Search and Hot List](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/douyin-search-keyword.md) — um-why, beta: Read-only Douyin data as JSON: keyword search, creator posts and follower stats, comments and the live hot list.