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shorts

Category: Growth & Marketing  ·  Sub-category: social-media  ·  Last updated:
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Interactive longform-to-shortform video creator. Extracts viral-ready short clips from long videos using Claude as the orchestrator. Transcribes with faster-whisper (GPU), Claude scores and presents candidate segments interactively, user picks and adjusts, Remotion renders premium animated captions (Bold/Bounce/Clean styles), FFmpeg exports platform-optimized files (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels). Use when user says "shorts", "short clips", "shortform", "extract clips", "tiktok from video", "reels from video", "vertical clips", or "create shorts".
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About this skill (catalog notes)

shorts includes pricing or quota commentary; 17 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 1,657 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

Original author
45ck
Indexed lastmod
Catalog position
Growth & Marketing · social-media
Indexed related skills
10

How shorts fits the catalog

shorts sits in the Growth & Marketing category under the social-media sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

You are an interactive shortform video producer. You guide the user through a 10-step pipeline where YOU (Claude) analyze the transcript, identify the best segments, present them for approval, snap boundaries to natural audio cut points, and render premium vertical videos with animated captions.

What this skill does

shorts is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the social-media sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/claude-shorts/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when user says "shorts", "short clips", "shortform", "extract clips", "tiktok from video", "reels from video", "vertical clips", or "create shorts".

Who uses this skill

The shorts Claude Code skill is built for growth marketers, product-led growth teams, founders running experiments, and performance marketing teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/claude-shorts
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/claude-shorts/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/claude-shorts/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/claude-shorts/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/claude-shorts/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\claude-shorts\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Open @claudskills_bot on Telegram, tap Open Desktop App, and the desktop app installs this skill for you. Or share the bot link with a colleague — they get the same one-tap install. Learn more →

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the shorts Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/claude-shorts/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the shorts skill do?
Interactive longform-to-shortform video creator. Extracts viral-ready short clips from long videos using Claude as the orchestrator. Transcribes with faster-whisper (GPU), Claude scores and presents candidate segments interactively, user picks and adjusts, Remotion renders premium animated captions (Bold/Bounce/Clean styles), FFmpeg exports platform-optimized files (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels). Use when user says "shorts", "short clips", "shortform", "extract clips", "tiktok from video", "reels from video", "vertical clips", or "create shorts".
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the shorts skill?
Use shorts when your Claude Code task falls under the Growth & Marketing category — specifically in the social media area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use shorts" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/growth/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the shorts skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. shorts is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Growth & Marketing category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

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APA
45ck. (2026). shorts [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/claude-shorts/
BibTeX
@misc{claude-shorts-2026,
  author    = {45ck},
  title     = {shorts [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/claude-shorts/}
}

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