VideoDB skills — model skill for editing & clips

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.

Server-side video for agents: ingest, search moments, cut, reframe, subtitle and stream via skills or MCP.

• Type: Model · Editing & clips
• Slug: videodb-skills
• Status: live
• Publisher: VideoDB (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/video-db/skills
• Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Any MCP client
• Requires: VideoDB account ($20 free credits)
• Cost: Usage-based
• Adoption: 139 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

VideoDB runs the heavy video work on its servers while the agent asks in plain language. Skills teach coding agents the VideoDB Python SDK, and a hosted MCP covers chat clients: upload a URL, find where something is said and clip it, cut a range to vertical with burned subtitles, translate transcripts, or watch an RTSP stream for events.

Use when

• find and clip the moment someone mentions a topic
• cut and burn subtitles without local ffmpeg
• search across a video library

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add video-db/skills
• Any MCP client: claude mcp add --transport http videodb https://mcp.videodb.io/mcp

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