claude-shorts — guide skill for editing & clips

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Claude Code skill that scores segments of a long video, snaps cuts to words and renders captioned 9:16 clips.

• Type: Guide · Editing & clips
• Slug: claude-shorts
• Status: live
• Publisher: AgriciDaniel (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-shorts
• Works in: Claude Code
• Requires: ffmpeg, Node.js, faster-whisper
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 242 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

A 10-step interactive pipeline: preflight, GPU transcription with word timestamps, content-type detection, Claude scoring 8 to 12 candidate segments with hooks and reasons, your approval, boundary snapping to words, sentence ends and silences, then Remotion renders vertical clips with animated captions and reframing.

Use when

• pick the best moments from a long video with you in the loop
• render captioned vertical clips
• reframe screen recordings and talking heads

Install

• Claude Code: git clone https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-shorts.git

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/d9d6ca934c79/claude-shorts.webp — Image from the project README (credit: AgriciDaniel (README), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-shorts/main/claude-shorts-header.jpeg)

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