Shorts & Reels: agent skills for TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts

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TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts: faceless videos, clips, memes and viral formats. 21 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 make a faceless YouTube video with AI: A narrated short or long video with no presenter: script, voiceover, visuals, captions, music.

Skills (21)

Effects (5)

• Clipify — Louise de Sadeleer: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.
• Jump Cut — varg: Cut out a stretch inside one continuous shot, so the subject visibly jumps. Removes pauses, adds pace.
• Jump-Zoom Punch-In — HeyGen: Hide a jump cut by scaling the next segment 110–130%. Reads as a second camera angle in talking heads.
• Pattern Interrupt — HeyGen: Every few seconds of a short, break the visual pattern: angle, zoom, graphic, sound hit, so attention resets.
• Pull In (Zoom In) — HeyGen: The camera rushes into shot A and lands, still moving forward, in shot B. The signature short-form transition.

Guides (8)

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels — varg: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• AI Video Script — aguo333, beta: Turns a topic into a video script: shot list, per-shot image/video prompts and voiceover text
• Short Video Script — rascal6666, beta: Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels
• TikTok Selling Video Guide — zhenyangze, beta: Guide to TikTok product-selling videos: formats, 3-second hooks, shooting, editing, hashtags, metrics
• Spoken Script Writer — dlazyai, beta: Writes short-video talking-head scripts in a fixed 7-step story structure for a personal brand
• AI YouTube Shorts Generator — Anil-matcha: Open-source Opus Clip alternative: LLM finds highlights in long videos and renders 9:16 shorts with face crop.
• claude-shorts — AgriciDaniel: Claude Code skill that scores segments of a long video, snaps cuts to words and renders captioned 9:16 clips.
• SupoClip — FujiwaraChoki: Self-hostable OpusClip alternative: long video in, captioned vertical clips out, no watermark.

Workflows (5)

• AI Social Media Content — inference.sh: Produce reels, shorts, images and thumbnails for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X with one toolkit.
• Krea Faceless Video — Krea: Make narrated faceless explainers, documentaries and kids' stories as finished multi-scene films on Krea.
• Explainroo — Vincent Schmalbach: Narrated explainer MP4s with a local voice (Kokoro), word timing (Whisper) and a canvas renderer; no API key needed.
• Herk Edit Kit — Nate Herk: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• Video Producer — a1024708231, beta: Topic in, narrated short MP4 out: shot plan, AI stills, per-scene voiceover, Remotion render

Models & tools (3)

• Submagic API — Submagic: Caption-styled shorts API with an MCP server: AI captions, Magic Clips from long videos, B-roll, publishing.
• OpusClip skills and API — OpusClip: Official OpusClip skill and MCP: clip long videos into shorts, copy a video's style, post to social.
• Vizard.ai API skill — Vizard.ai: Official ClawHub skill for the Vizard.ai API: clip long videos, edit shorts with subtitles and B-roll, publish.