# 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/models.md) · [Editing & clips](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/editing.md)
- **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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-form-ffmpeg-cookbook.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-ffmpeg-mixing.md): Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
- [Chengfeng Videocut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/chengfeng-videocut.md): Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
- [Claude Code Video Toolkit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-code-video-toolkit.md): Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
- [Herk Edit Kit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/herk-edit-kit.md): Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
- [Clipify](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/clipify.md): 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

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- 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