# 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-a-faceless-youtube-video.md): A narrated short or long video with no presenter: script, voiceover, visuals, captions, music.

## Skills (21)

### Effects (5)

- [Clipify](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/clipify.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/jump-cut.md) — varg: Cut out a stretch inside one continuous shot, so the subject visibly jumps. Removes pauses, adds pace.
- [Jump-Zoom Punch-In](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/jump-zoom-punch-in.md) — HeyGen: Hide a jump cut by scaling the next segment 110–130%. Reads as a second camera angle in talking heads.
- [Pattern Interrupt](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pattern-interrupt.md) — HeyGen: Every few seconds of a short, break the visual pattern: angle, zoom, graphic, sound hit, so attention resets.
- [Pull In (Zoom In)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pull-in-zoom.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-form-ffmpeg-cookbook.md) — varg: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
- [AI Video Script](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-video-script.md) — aguo333, beta: Turns a topic into a video script: shot list, per-shot image/video prompts and voiceover text
- [Short Video Script](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-video-script.md) — rascal6666, beta: Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels
- [TikTok Selling Video Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/tiktok-short-video.md) — zhenyangze, beta: Guide to TikTok product-selling videos: formats, 3-second hooks, shooting, editing, hashtags, metrics
- [Spoken Script Writer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-text-spoken-script.md) — dlazyai, beta: Writes short-video talking-head scripts in a fixed 7-step story structure for a personal brand
- [AI YouTube Shorts Generator](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-youtube-shorts-generator.md) — Anil-matcha: Open-source Opus Clip alternative: LLM finds highlights in long videos and renders 9:16 shorts with face crop.
- [claude-shorts](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-shorts.md) — AgriciDaniel: Claude Code skill that scores segments of a long video, snaps cuts to words and renders captioned 9:16 clips.
- [SupoClip](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/supoclip.md) — FujiwaraChoki: Self-hostable OpusClip alternative: long video in, captioned vertical clips out, no watermark.

### Workflows (5)

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

### Models & tools (3)

- [Submagic API](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/submagic.md) — Submagic: Caption-styled shorts API with an MCP server: AI captions, Magic Clips from long videos, B-roll, publishing.
- [OpusClip skills and API](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/opusclip.md) — OpusClip: Official OpusClip skill and MCP: clip long videos into shorts, copy a video's style, post to social.
- [Vizard.ai API skill](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/vizard-api-skill.md) — Vizard.ai: Official ClawHub skill for the Vizard.ai API: clip long videos, edit shorts with subtitles and B-roll, publish.