OpusClip skills and API — model skill for editing & clips

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Official OpusClip skill and MCP: clip long videos into shorts, copy a video's style, post to social.

• Type: Model · Editing & clips
• Slug: opusclip
• Status: live
• Publisher: OpusClip (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://help.opus.pro/api-reference/skill
• Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, OpenClaw, Any MCP client
• Requires: OpusClip plan with API access
• Cost: Per minute (1 credit per minute processed)
• Adoption: 23 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

OpusClip's API turns long videos into ranked short clips with captions and brand templates, and supports clip editing, webhooks and social posting. The official opus-skills package installs an opusclip skill (with a bundled CLI), copy-video-style and media generation for Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw or Claude.ai, and a hosted MCP endpoint is available.

Use when

• clip a webinar or podcast into shorts
• apply a brand template to clips
• post clips without leaving the agent

Install

• Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add opus-pro/opus-skills then /plugin install opusclip@opus-skills
• Any MCP client: claude mcp add --transport http --scope user opusclip https://mcp.opus.pro/mcp
• Codex: codex plugin marketplace add opus-pro/opus-skills

More editing & clips skills

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• Splice AI clips into a video with FFmpeg: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
• Chengfeng Videocut: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
• Claude Code Video Toolkit: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
• Herk Edit Kit: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• Clipify: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.

Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
• Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
• Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp
• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt